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Captured Chinese Soldiers beg for their lives
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Captured Chinese Soldiers beg for their lives thinking that they are going to be executed, Korea 1951. During the Korean war Chinese PLA was morphed into People’s Volunteer Army that was made to be distinctly different than the PLA. one interesting engagement I read about was the engagement/ Battle of…
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U.S. Army Hangman John C. Woods Intentionally Botched Nazi Executions To Ensure Their Agonizing Deaths.
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The Nuremberg executions took place on 16 October 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. Hermann Göring was also scheduled to be hanged on that day, but committed suicide…
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Meet Josephine Myrtle Corbin, The Four-legged Girl.
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Josephine Myrtle Corbin was born on May 12, 1868, in Lincoln County, Tennessee, with a rare fetal anomaly known as dipygus. Her body was perfectly formed from her head down to her navel, below which it divided into two pelvises, and four lower limbs. Myrtle Corbin was also born with…
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Dear Brandon and WalkAway Friends:
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Hope you don’t mind that I’m checking back in. I grew up in a Republican household with working class parents who’d spent their childhood living through the Great Depression, their teenage years living through the Second World War, then they started fighting the Cold War in their mid-20s. I’m a…
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Masha Bruskina.
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Masha Bruskina was a Russian teenage female partisan. She was a 17 year old Jewish high school graduate and was the first teenage girl to be publicly hanged by the Nazis in Belorussia (Belarus), since the German invasion of Soviet Union on the 22nd of June 1941. Her execution and that of the two men…
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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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Kevin Carter
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Kevin Carter (13 September 1960 – 27 July 1994) was a South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club. He was the recipient in 1994 of a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph depicting the 1993 famine in Sudan. He took his own life at the age of 33. He won…
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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…