Koch was located by the Allies and handed over to the Polish authorities on May 3 , 1947 . He was tried by the Supreme National Tribunal at the Auschwitz Trial in Kraków and was found guilty of perpetrating the genocide of the Jews , but the court sentenced him to life imprisonment as opposed to death . The court cited the orders given to him as attenuating circumstances . He died in prison in Gdańsk in 1955
genocide of the Jews
The Holocaust
Hans Koch (SS officer)