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Genickschussanlage (German for "neck shooting facility") is the official name of a facility used for surprise executions in Nazi Germany. The victim was placed, under the pretext of a medical examination, in a position where a shot could be fired into the back of their neck from the neighbouring room. For that purpose, the facilities were ...
The Nuremberg executions took place on October 16, 1946, shortly after the conclusion of the Nuremberg trials.Ten prominent members of the political and military leadership of Nazi Germany were executed by hanging: Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Fritz Sauckel, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, and Julius Streicher.
Pages in category "Nazis executed by Nazi Germany by hanging" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Woods also alleged that after he began hanging German war criminals, attempts had been made on his life, with Woods claiming that "somebody tried to poison me in Germany" (although in reality this may have been no more than unintentional food poisoning contracted "in an Army mess") [14] and also that someone had shot at him in Paris, "but the ...
People executed by hanging at Plötzensee Prison (82 P) Pages in category "People executed by Nazi Germany by hanging" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.
The last execution ordered by a West German court was carried out by guillotine in Moabit prison in 1949. The last hanging in Germany was the one ordered of several war criminals in Landsberg am Lech on 7 June 1951. The last known execution in East Germany was in 1981 by a pistol shot to the neck. [30]
Masaharu Homma – convicted of war crimes, sentenced to death, then executed on April 3, 1946. Hitoshi Imamura – sentenced to imprisonment for ten years. Kiyotake Kawaguchi – imprisoned from 1946 to 1953. Tomoyuki Yamashita – sentenced to death, executed on February 23, 1946.
Dorothea "Theodora" Binz (16 March 1920 – 2 May 1947) [1] was a Nazi German officer and supervisor at Ravensbrück concentration camp during the Holocaust. She was known as one of the most brutal, ruthless and sadistic overseers and in the Nazi system. [2] She was executed for war crimes on 2 May 1947. [3]