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The guillotine used in Luxembourg between 1789 and 1821. A guillotine (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l ə t iː n / GHIL-ə-teen / ˌ ɡ ɪ l ə ˈ t iː n / GHIL-ə-TEEN / ˈ ɡ i j ə t i n / GHEE-yə-teen) [1] is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted and angled ...
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 ...
Victims. 6. Span of crimes. July – November 1937. Country. France. Date apprehended. 8 December 1937. 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.
Wolfgang Kusserow. Wolfgang Kusserow (1 March 1922 – 28 March 1942) was executed by guillotine at Brandenburg-Görden Prison for conscientiously objecting induction into the German Army because of his religious beliefs as a Jehovah's Witness. [1][2] One of his older brothers, Wilhelm Kusserow, had similarly been executed on 27 April 1940 for ...
Stadelheim Prison. Coordinates: 48°05′59″N 11°35′31″E. Stadelheim Prison (German: Justizvollzugsanstalt München), in Munich 's Giesing district, is one of the largest prisons in Germany. Stadelheim Prison. Founded in 1894, it was the site of many executions, particularly by guillotine during the Nazi period.
The 13 May 1945 German deserter execution occurred five days after the capitulation of Nazi Germany along with the Wehrmacht armed forces in World War II, when an illegal court martial, composed of the captured and disarmed German officers kept under Allied guard in Amsterdam, Netherlands imposed a death sentence upon two former German deserters from the Kriegsmarine, Bruno Dorfer and Rainer ...
In 2002, the historian Bryan Mark Rigg published Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military. [7] A documentary by Larry Price about soldiers of Jewish ancestry under Nazi Germany, Hitler's Jewish Soldiers, premiered on 24 April 2006 on Channel 1. The documentary featured ...
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (French: [ʒozɛf iɲas ɡijɔtɛ̃]; 28 May 1738 – 26 March 1814) was a French physician, politician, and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out executions in France, as a less painful method of execution than existing methods. Although he did not invent the guillotine and opposed ...