September
17, 1950
Gestapo
Leader Sentenced to Life Imprisonment
Kurt Lischka, who had led
the Gestapo during Germany's occupation of France during World War II, was
sentenced by a Paris court, in absentia, to life imprisonment. The Gestapo was
the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe.
Lischka had been imprisoned
in France in 1945, then extradited to Czechoslovakia in 1947 for war crimes
there, but had been released on 22 August 1950 and settled in West Germany.
Though sentenced by a Paris court, Lischka
spent more than 25 years of freedom, working under his own name in the Federal
Republic of Germany as, among other positions, a judge. As a
result of the activities of Holocaust-survivor Serge Klarsfeld and his wife
Beate Klarsfeld of German origin, Lischka was eventually arrested in Cologne.
Lischka was sentenced to a ten-year prison term on 2 February 1980 and,
following his early release on health grounds, died in a nursing home on 16 May
1989 in Brühl.
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