Martha Marek

While Martha Marek was strictly speaking a victim of the Nazis it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that she thoroughly deserved her fate. The stunningly beautiful 33 year old blonde was convicted in 1938 in Vienna of several cold blooded murders by thallium poisoning including those of two of her own children.

Two months earlier Hitler had crossed into Austria & declared the start of the Greater German Reich. It was a harsh time for justice.
Martha denied everything but it didn’t save her. The prosecutor Herr Wotawa declared her to be another Lucrezia Borgia. As the death sentence was pronounced Martha broke down & sobbed.

All her appeals failed & on the cold & rainy morning of December 6th 1938 grim faced Nazi guards gave the Hitler salute as Martha was brought out into the prison yard to die.

A hush fell over the scene as her hands were bound & she was made ready. As she knelt, her neck placed upon the block, the executioner raised his axe.

At a signal the blade was brought swiftly down & Martha’s severed head dropped neatly into the waiting basket

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