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Sat 07 Jul 2010Hitler's genocidal henchman
BIOGRAPHY: Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western PolandBy Catherine Epstein Oxford University Press, 433pp. £30
ON A SUNNY morning in July 1946 a vast crowd of 15,000 Poles attended a public hanging in the recently liberated city of Poznan. The man executed that day was Arthur Greiser, the former Nazi Party leader in the so-called Warthegau, a part of western Poland annexed to Germany after the invasion of September 1939.
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