HIMMLER
OF POLAND DEAD
Gestapo
Chief Assassinated by Poles
LONDON,
England—General Wilhelm Kruger, chief of the Gestapo in Poland, was assassinated
on May 2, Polish officials reported here yesterday. Kruger, known as the “Himmler
of Poland,” was the principal organizer of the Nazi terror campaign against the
Polish people, directing mass arrests, deportations, and executions without
benefit of trials. He was second-in-command to Governor General Hans Frank.
Reports of the assassination indicate three men dressed in German uniforms
waited by Kruger’s house in Krakow and opened fire on him with submachine guns when
he exited his vehicle. Kruger was shot multiple times, but survived for three
days, expiring Wednesday night, May 5. The assassins are reported to have
escaped capture. The Polish government-in-exile here in London states a “directorate
of resistance” in Poland has sentenced a number of Gestapo officials to death
and that “these will be carried out.”
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