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Johann Reichhart (29 April 1893 – 26 April 1972) was a German state-appointed judicial executioner in Bavaria from 1924 to 1946. During the Nazi period, he executed numerous people who were sentenced to death for their resistance to the German government. [1] [2] After the war, he was employed as executioner by the US Military Government in ...
The guillotine, axe [32] and the firing squad were the legal methods of execution during the era of the German Empire (1871–1918) and the subsequent Weimar Republic (1919–1933). The original German guillotines resembled the French Berger 1872 model, but they eventually evolved into sturdier and more effective machines.
Eugen Weidmann (5 February 1908 – 17 June 1939) was a German criminal and serial killer who was executed by guillotine in France in June 1939, the last public execution in France. Early life [ edit ]
People executed by guillotine at Plötzensee Prison (55 P) Pages in category "People executed by Nazi Germany by guillotine" The following 80 pages are in this category, out of 80 total.
Hence its German name, the Hinterkaifeck farmstead was essentially located behind Kaifeck or, more precisely, about one mile north of it and bordered by dense woods. Less than a year after the murders and the murder investigation, the farm was completely demolished to remove the reminder of the violence that had taken place there.
Pages in category "People executed by East Germany by guillotine" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
A replica of the Halifax Gibbet on its original site, 2008, with St Mary's Catholic church, Gibbet Street, in the background. The Halifax Gibbet / ˈ h æ l ɪ f æ k s ˈ dʒ ɪ b ɪ t / was an early guillotine used in the town of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. Estimated to have been installed during the 16th century, it was used as an ...
Lilo and Erich Gloeden, and Elisabeth Kuznitzky, are memorialized by three bronze plaques, stolpersteine, installed outside the location of their apartment. [5] President of the Bundestag Norbert Lammert has noted that the national history of each country is the sum of the many, personal stories of people who usually remain unobserved or quickly forgotten like those of the Gloedens, whose ...