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Pages in category "People executed by Nazi Germany by guillotine" The following 80 pages are in this category, out of 80 total.
In Germany, the guillotine is known as Fallbeil ("falling axe") or Köpfmaschine ("beheading machine") and was used in various German states from the 19th century onwards, [citation needed] becoming the preferred method of execution in Napoleonic times in many parts of the country. The guillotine, axe [32] and the firing squad were the legal ...
After an RAF air raid in the night of 3 September 1943 irreparably damaged the guillotine and destroyed large parts of the prison buildings, State Secretary Curt Rothenberger in the Reich Ministry of Justice via telephone ordered the immediate execution of the Plötzensee condemned. About 250 people—six of them "erroneously"— waiting in ...
Pages in category "People executed by East Germany by guillotine" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
While original items from the Nazi era are sold for high prices, there is a large amount of copies and forgeries on the market. [3] Modern day replicas of miscellaneous Nazi badges aimed at reenactors and exhibitions, for sale at the militaria fair at the Victory Show in Cosby, Leicestershire , UK, 2015: Wehrmacht eagle-and-swastika cap badges ...
The 13 May 1945 German deserter execution occurred five days after the capitulation of Nazi Germany along with the Wehrmacht armed forces in World War II, when an illegal court martial, composed of the captured and disarmed German officers kept under Allied guard in Amsterdam, Netherlands imposed a death sentence upon two former German deserters from the Kriegsmarine, Bruno Dorfer and Rainer ...
August Meyszner – The Higher SS and Police Leader in German-occupied Serbia, he was sentenced to death on December 22, 1946, and executed by hanging in Belgrade on January 24, 1947. Friedrich Rainer – The Gauleiter of Salzburg and Carinthia , he was also the Chief of Civil Administration of Upper Carniola in Slovenia .
Built together with an adjacent court building in 1906, it was used as a prison until 2003. During East German rule, a secret part of the prison was used as the central execution site of East Germany. In 1981, Werner Teske was the final person executed here. The prison was used until 2003, the site is now used as an extension of the nearby ...