Ernst Boepple was a Nazi

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 politician.

Boepple originally served as the Bavaria

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n Minister for Culture, but was replaced. On September 1, 1941, he was appointed the State Secretary of the General Government in Poland

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, serving as deputy to Deputy Governor Josef Bühler

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. Boepple was deeply implicated in the "Final Solution

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" as the deputy to Bühler and also held rank in the SS, being an Oberführer (Senior Colonel).

Boepple was sentenced to death by a Polish court and hanged

Hanging

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on December 14, 1949.