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Erich Koch
Erich Koch
(19 June 1896 – 12 November 1986) was a
Gauleiter
of the
Nazi Party
(NSDAP) in
East Prussia
from 1928 until 1945. Between 1941 and 1945 he was
Chief of Civil Administration
(
Chef der Zivilverwaltung
) of
Bezirk Bialystok
. During this period, he was also the
Reichskommissar
in
Reichskommissariat Ukraine
from 1941 until 1943. After the
Second World War
, Koch stood trial in
Poland
and was convicted in 1959 of
war crimes
and sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment a year later.
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