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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.
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.
The White Rose (German: Weiße Rose, pronounced [ˈvaɪsə ˈʁoːzə] ⓘ) was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany which was led by five students and one professor at the University of Munich: Willi Graf, Kurt Huber, Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl.
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Franz Friedrich Carl Gröpler (22 February 1868, Magdeburg – 30 January 1946, Magdeburg) was Royal Prussian executioner (German: Scharfrichter) from 1906 to 1937. [1] Responsible for carrying out capital punishment in the Prussian provinces, he executed at least 144 people, [1] primarily by beheading with an axe, but also with guillotines ...
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 ...
People executed by East Germany by guillotine (14 P) N. People executed by Nazi Germany by guillotine (1 C, 79 P) W. People executed by the Weimar Republic by ...