# Helmut Kapp

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**Helmut Kapp** (born as *Konstanty Kapuścik*; died 31 May 1943) was a member of the [Gestapo](/source/Gestapo) during [World War II](/source/World_War_II). He was killed in 1943 by a [partisan](/source/Partisan_(military)) [death squad](/source/Death_squad) in [Jędrzejów, Poland](/source/J%C4%99drzej%C3%B3w).

Kapp was born in [Ratiborhammer](/source/Ratiborhammer), [Upper Silesia](/source/Upper_Silesia).[citation needed] After the outbreak of World War II he joined the Gestapo. Initially a translator, he was promoted to the deputy commander of a Gestapo outpost in Jędrzejów. Among his tasks were recruitment of [collaborators](/source/Collaborationism), assisting in the arrest of people in the [powiats](/source/Powiats) of Jędrzejów and [Włoszczowa](/source/W%C5%82oszczowa), and the interrogation of suspects arrested by the Germans. According to his own testimony, he murdered 452 Poles, including 365 Jews.

In the early months of 1943 Kapp was sentenced to death by the [Polish Underground](/source/Polish_Underground) [Special Courts](/source/Underground_court) for the Jędrzejów area[citation needed] and the verdict was supported by the local command of the [Armia Krajowa](/source/Armia_Krajowa).[citation needed] After several initial attempts to poison Kapp, the Armia Krajowa formed a [death squad](/source/Death_squad) to kill him.[citation needed]

On 31 May 1943 the death squad was formed, composed of [2nd Lieutenant](/source/2nd_Lieutenant) *[Zola](/source/Hieronim_Piasecki)*, [Corporal](/source/Corporal) *[Ryszard](/source/Zdzis%C5%82aw_Kajderowicz)* and [Private](/source/Private_(rank)) *[Wituś](/source/Witold_Staszkiewicz)*. The squad, armed with pistols, notified that Kapp was having a meeting at the gardens near the Gestapo building in Jędrzejów. They reached the gardens and found Kapp returning home with a German Gestapo driver. After a short fight, the driver was killed and Kapp was severely wounded. Kapp died the following day.[citation needed]

As a reprisal for this action, on 9 June 1943 the Germans killed 11 random civilians of Jędrzejów while an additional 25 were arrested, tortured and sent to [Auschwitz concentration camp](/source/Auschwitz_concentration_camp).[citation needed]

## References

- Borzobochaty, Wojciech (1988). *Jodła: Okręg Radomsko-Kielecki ZWZ-AK, 1939-1945* (in Polish). [PAX](/source/PAX_Association). ISBN 83-211-0901-2.

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