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Executions in Berlin’s Plötzensee prison.
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Plötzensee prison in Berlin was designed by architect, Ludwig Alexander Herrmann, and was constructed between 1869 and 1879 to serve as the new state prison. It occupied a plot of 62 acres with a six meter high perimeter wall. Within the walls were five three story prison buildings which were originally designed…
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Hanging
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Until 1858, the procedure of hanging was not regulated by any law or decree. How the hanging was carried out depended solely on local circumstances and decisions made by local officials in charge. No special apparatus (gallows) was used for hangings. The hanging rope would most often be tied to…
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massacre: 36 innocents killed over 1 drunk German, their families made to watch
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The video of the Pancevo crime has been viewed worldwide as rare color footage and one of the most horrific records of German crimes. It is important not to forget, and not to let it repeat. Most people in Serbia were preoccupied yesterday with the 75th anniversary of the liberation…
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More of our men died–world history and facts
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“More of our men died—so fast that you couldn’t keep track of their numbers,” wrote Tony Acevedo, an American soldier fighting in World War II. “We kept on marching.” On this day in 1945, Tony and members of the US Army’s 275th Infantry Regiment were captured by the Germans and…
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The Holocaust’s Most Vicious Ki11ers
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During the Holocaust, one group of killers stood out as more vicious, murderous, and bloodthirsty than all others. The Ustasha of Yugoslavia was a Muslim-Catholic alliance of Nazi killers so beastly that even Nazi officials in Berlin were horrified. The Ustasha and three related crack divisions of Arab-Nazi Waffen SS…
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Battle of Balikpapan (1945)
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The Battle of Balikpapan was the concluding stage of Operation Oboe, the campaign to liberate Japanese-held British and Dutch Borneo. The landings took place on 1 July 1945. The Australian 7th Division, composed of the 18th, 21st and 25th Infantry Brigades, with a small number of Netherlands East Indies KNIL troops, made an amphibious landing, codenamed Operation Oboe Two, a few miles north of Balikpapan. The…
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On 27 May 1942, 168 prisoners were shot at the execution wall in the courtyard of Block 11 in Auschwitz I.
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They belonged to the group of Poles were arrested by Germans on 16 April 1942 in the Artists’ Cafe in Krakow and deported to Auschwitz on 24 and 25 April. The prisoners were taken to the courtyard four at a time and shot. The following sentence was uttered: “For the…
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Poland Women naked, before their execution
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Among the millions of photographs that are related to Nazi death camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau. They show a completely different perspective, which makes them unique when dealing with visual material of the Holocaust and the Holocaust as…
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Johann Pauls Execution
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Johann Pauls (born 9 February 1908 in Danzig – died 4 July 1946 in Gdańsk), also John Pauls, was a German SS-Oberscharführer in Stutthof concentration camp. Career Pauls was the third child of Johann August Pauls and Minna Steingräber. He joined the NSDAP, along with the SS, in the Free State of Danzig on…
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1941: Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
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On this date in 1941, Soviet partisan Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was hanged by the Wehrmacht for sabotaging buildings behind German lines near Moscow. A statue of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya stands vigil over Moscow’s World War II-era Partizanskaya metro station. Image used with permission. One of the most famous Soviet war heroines and the…