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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 ]
Another way to satisfy his [Moll's] perverse murder lust was the killing of little children who he threw alive into the boiling human fat at the front sides of the pits. When the camp commandant or other SS commanders appeared at the site of the crematoria, however, Moll controlled himself and subdued his abnormal tendencies.
Logo of Alan Landsburg Productions. Alan William Landsburg (May 10, 1933 – August 13, 2014) was an American television writer, producer, and director.He was the founder and CEO of Alan Landsburg Productions and the Landsburg Company and was involved in producing over fifty movies of the week.
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.
By the end of April 1945, a total of about 30,000 prisoners had passed through the camps, including 4200 women and 850 children. [2] In just ten months, according to estimates from early post-war times, at least 14,500 prisoners died from hunger, epidemics, executions, transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and on a death March. [3]
On Death Row is a television mini-series written and directed by Werner Herzog about capital punishment in the United States. The series grew out of the same project which produced Herzog's documentary film Into the Abyss. The series first aired in the United Kingdom on March 22, 2012, on Channel 4. [2]
The Mass Execution consists of four 60 or 75 minute episodes looking at the eight inmates on Arkansas death row whose executions were pushed forward due to the expiration date on the Midazolam used in these executions. [8]
M is a 1931 German mystery thriller film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert, a serial killer who targets children, in his third screen role. Both Lang's first sound film and an early example of a procedural drama, [2] M centers on the manhunt for Beckert conducted by both the police and organized crime.