Mokotów Prison, Warsaw, Poland. I will post information about him from
Wikipedia.
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| Ludwig Fischer |
Governor
of the Warsaw District within the General Government
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In
office
September 1939 – January 1945 |
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Personal
details
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Born
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16 April 1905
Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (then in the Palatinate Region of the Kingdom of Bavaria in the German Empire) |
Died
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March 8, 1947 (aged 41)
Mokotów Prison in Warsaw, Poland |
Dr. Ludwig Fischer (April 16, 1905
– March 8, 1947) was a German National Socialist lawyer, politician and a
convicted war criminal.
Background
Born
into a Catholic family in Kaiserslautern, Fischer joined the Nazi Party in 1926
while a student, and the Sturmabteilung (SA) in 1929, eventually rising to the
rank of Gruppenführer. In 1937, he was elected to the Reichstag.
Actions
during Nazi occupation of Poland
Main article: General Government administration
After
the 1939 Invasion of Poland, he was appointed Governor of the Warsaw District
in the occupied General Government (the area of Poland that was not formally
annexed). He held this position until the withdrawal of the German forces from
Warsaw in January 1945.
Fischer
was directly responsible for a number of war crimes, as well as crimes against
humanity. He was responsible for the creation of the Warsaw Ghetto, issued many
anti-Semitic laws, as well as participating in the bloody Ghetto
de-establishment and deportation. He was also responsible for many terrors in
the occupied city, including mass executions, slave labor programs and
deportation of Polish Jews to the various Nazi Concentration Camps. He was
sentenced to death by the Special Courts of the Polish resistance movement for
crimes against Polish citizens. His name was first on the list of
"Operation Heads"—the serial assassinations of Nazi personnel by the
Polish Resistance. Before the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, his car was shot at in
Operation Hunting, but Fischer survived.
After
the failure of the Warsaw Uprising, Fischer played an important role in the
planned destruction of Warsaw by Nazi Germany. He was also responsible for the
poor conditions in the temporary transit camp in Pruszków, which was built to
intern people expelled from the capital.
Postwar
trial and execution
Fischer,
then aged 41, was arrested after the war by Allied forces and was handed over
to the Polish authorities. He was tried before the Supreme
National Tribunal and sentenced to death. He was executed by hanging
in Warsaw's Mokotów Prison. There is a film in existence showing the execution
of Ludwig Fischer, which is sometimes misidentified in the media as that of
Amon Goeth.
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