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  2. Landsberg Prison - Wikipedia

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    In five and half years, Landsberg Prison was the place of execution of 252 condemned war criminals, all of them by hanging. [4] Executions were carried out expeditiously. In May 1946, 28 former SS guards from Dachau were hanged within a four-day period. [ 5 ]

  3. Locations of executions conducted by Albert Pierrepoint

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    Albert Pierrepoint (1905–1992) was the most prolific British hangman of the twentieth century, executing 434 men and women between 1932 and 1955. This table records the locations of each of the executions he participated in, the numbers in brackets being the number of executions he was assistant executioner at (often assisting his uncle, Thomas Pierrepoint), the other numbers are those in ...

  4. Otto Moll - Wikipedia

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    According to Kapo Wilhelm Metzler, Moll had shot 26 people. [25] After Moll's conviction, Major Draper, a British military prosecutor, sent an urgent request for an interview to the commandant of Landsberg Prison, where Moll was awaiting execution. He requested an interview with him, saying the world needed to know what he had done in Auschwitz.

  5. Kaufering concentration camp complex - Wikipedia

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    About 30,000 prisoners passed through the Kaufering camps, [5] [10] [8] including 4,200 women and 850 children. [5] This dwarfed the population of the surrounding area; only 10,000 people lived in the Landsberg area. [27] Almost all of the prisoners were Jews. [2] [13] The majority of the prisoners came from Hungary or the areas annexed by ...

  6. Johann Reichhart - Wikipedia

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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.

  7. Julius Hallervorden - Wikipedia

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    He worked in Berlin in 1909/10 and from 1913 on in Landsberg/Warthe (Gorzów Wielkopolski). In 1921 and 1925/26 he worked at the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychatrie in Munich , he left Landsberg in 1929 to organize a centralized psychiatric healthcare in the Province of Brandenburg .

  8. Franz Strasser - Wikipedia

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    Arrest, trial, and execution [ edit ] After Germany's surrender, U.S. Army officials sought four men for their involvement in the shootings: Strasser and Lindemeyer, and Hermann Nelböck and Walter Wolf, both of whom had accompanied Strasser on the drive to where the airmen were shot.

  9. List of people who were beheaded - Wikipedia

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    These individuals lost their heads intentionally (as a form of execution or posthumously). A list of people who were decapitated accidentally, including animal-related deaths, can be found at List of people who were decapitated. Salome and the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, by Titian The Beheading of Saint Paul. Painting by Enrique Simonet ...