DDR-Justiz und NS-Verbrechen
Nazi Crimes on Trial
* Glossary *
Case Nr.
1049
Crime Category: War Crimes, Other Mass Extermination Crimes
Accused:
Blösche, Josef Death Sentence
Court:
LG/BG Erfurt 690430
Ob. Gericht der DDR 690613
Country where the crime was committed: Poland, Belarus
Crime Location: Baranowicze, Warschau
Crime Date: 4107-4109, 4109-4309
Victims: Jews, Prisoners, Civilians, Members of the Resistance
Nationality: Soviet, Polish
Agency: EK8, Sipo Warschau (Security Police)
Subject of the proceeding: Participation in two mass shootings in the Baranowicze
area (July/August 1941). Arrest, mishandling and incarceration of Poles into the Warsaw
Pawiak prison. Participation in the deportation of Jews from Warsaw. Shooting of
individual Jews during patrols in the Warsaw ghetto. Participation in several mass
killings of Jews by way of hangings and shootings before and during the liquidation of the
Warsaw ghetto
Published in DDR-Justiz und NS-Verbrechen vol. II
The court decision(s) of this case can be
found in the printed volumes of the series or (on-line)
here.
Press reports