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Execution of Nazi War Criminal Herbert Böttcher, SS and Police Leader in Radom – Official Poster - Poster announcing to the public the execution by hanging of the Nazi war criminal Herbert Böttcher, SS and Police Leader in Radom. Radom, 1950. Polish. The poster states: “By judgment of the District Court in Radom dated June 18, 1949, General Herbert Böttcher, son of Otto and Anna, née Slaw, born on April 24, 1907, in Prökuls near Klaipėda, former SS and Police Commander in the Radom District during the period of the Hitlerite occupation, was sentenced, pursuant to Articles 1 and 4 of the Decree of August 31, 1944, concerning the punishment of Fascist-Hitlerite criminals guilty of murder and ill-treatment of the civilian population, to the death penalty. The sentence was carried out by hanging on June 12, 1950, at 9:10 p.m. Prosecutor of the District Court in Radom.” Böttcher served as SS and Police Leader (SS- und Polizeiführer) in the Radom District from April 1942 until January 1945 and was directly responsible for the liquidation of the Radom Ghetto, the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Jews to the Treblinka extermination camp, and the implementation of brutal punitive operations, mass arrests, and executions of Polish civilians and members of the resistance. Böttcher directed and supervised the deportation of more than 300,000 Jews from the Radom Ghetto and other ghettos throughout the district to the Treblinka extermination camp. He also ordered the execution of Polish civilians who concealed Jews or possessed weapons, and was directly involved in the 1943 Michniów massacre, in which approximately 204 villagers were murdered. After the war, he was arrested, extradited to Poland, tried in Radom under the Bierut Decree (the special Polish decree for the punishment of Nazi war criminals), and executed by hanging in Radom Prison in 1950. Size: 60×42 cm. Tears and losses. Fold marks. Minor stains. Reinforcements with pasted paper on the reverse of the poster. Moderate condition.