Kurt Lischka
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Kurt Werner Lischka was an SS
Lieutenant Colonel and Gestapo
chief assigned to Paris in Occupied France during World War II.
Lischka was the son of a bank official who studied law and political science in Breslau and Berlin. After obtaining his degree he worked in various district courts and in the Provincial Court of Appeal in Breslau.
Lischka joined the SS on 1 June 1933, reaching the rank of SS Major in 1938 and then the rank of SS-Lieutenant Colonel on 20 April 1942. On 1 September 1935 Lischka joined the Gestapo and in January 1940 became head of the Gestapo in Cologne.
Lischka headed the operation which resulted in the incarceration of over 30,000 German Jews immediately following the mass destruction of Jewish property in the Crystal Night pogrom in November 1938.
As SiPo-SD chief of Paris Lischka was responsible for the largest single mass deportation of Jews in Occupied France.
Lischka was sentenced to a ten year prison term in Cologne in 1980. Kurt Lischka died on 16 May 1989 in Brühl.
Schutzstaffel
The Schutzstaffel |Sig runes]]) was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS under Heinrich Himmler's command was responsible for many of the crimes against humanity during World War II...
Lieutenant Colonel and Gestapo
Gestapo
The Gestapo was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police...
chief assigned to Paris in Occupied France during World War II.
Lischka was the son of a bank official who studied law and political science in Breslau and Berlin. After obtaining his degree he worked in various district courts and in the Provincial Court of Appeal in Breslau.
Lischka joined the SS on 1 June 1933, reaching the rank of SS Major in 1938 and then the rank of SS-Lieutenant Colonel on 20 April 1942. On 1 September 1935 Lischka joined the Gestapo and in January 1940 became head of the Gestapo in Cologne.
Lischka headed the operation which resulted in the incarceration of over 30,000 German Jews immediately following the mass destruction of Jewish property in the Crystal Night pogrom in November 1938.
As SiPo-SD chief of Paris Lischka was responsible for the largest single mass deportation of Jews in Occupied France.
Lischka was sentenced to a ten year prison term in Cologne in 1980. Kurt Lischka died on 16 May 1989 in Brühl.