Potępa [pɔˈtɛmpa] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Krupski Młyn, within Tarnowskie Góry County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland.

On the night of 9 August 1932, five uniformed Nazi Stormtroopers (Sturmabteilung) burst into the apartment of miner, trade unionist, member of the Communist Party of Germany, Konrad Pietrzuch, and beat him to death in the presence of his mother and younger brother.

After a well-publicized trial in Beuthen (now Bytom, Poland), they were found guilty of murder and sentenced to death.

In March 1933, after Hitler assumed office, the murderers were released.

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