Ludwig Fischer
Ludwig Fischer (16 April 1905 – 8 March 1947) was a Nazi Party lawyer and politician. He was hanged for war crimes in Poland in 1947.
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Fischer was appointed Chief Administrator of Warsaw following the Nazi occupation of Poland. In this capacity he oversaw the construction of the Warsaw Ghetto, where Polish Jews were imprisoned awaiting transfer to concentration camps. He also participated in the bloody liquidation of the ghetto and passed anti-semitic legislation. Furthermore, Fischer was responsible for terror in the occupied city, including mass executions, slave-labour pogroms and the deportation of Poles and Polish Jews to the various German concentration camps.
After the failure of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising Fischer was instrumental in the retaliatory destruction of Warsaw during which 80-90% of the city was razed to the ground. Fischer was responsible for the establishment of a transit camp which approximately 650, 000 Warsaw residents were deported to. The conditions at the camp were deliberately poor, and around 55, 000 of the inmates were later sent to concentration camps to be killed.