Execution Tales Chapter 52 Part 1
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[The source of the ideas for Chapter 52 were the same as Chapter 51]
52: World War II: Concentration Camp Guards
Alyssia then moved on to the fates of female concentration camp guards executed by the allies for war crimes
The Stutthof Guards
In 1946 the Red Army captured the Nazis who had run the infamous Stutthof death camp including five women, Elisabeth Becker, Gerda Steinhof, Wanda Klaff, Erna Beilhardt & Jenny Wanda Barkman, who was known to the camp inmates as “The beautiful angel of death”.
At their trial the SS women behaved insolently. During the procedings they giggled & joked. Barkmann changed her hair do every day & flirted with the guards. However when the public prosecutor asked for capital punishment they all cried & pleaded for their lives to no avail & they were each sentenced to death by hanging
They five women were executed before a large crowd in 1946 along with a number of men. The gallows were arranged in pairs with two prisoners to be hanged from each.
All were to be given a slow hanging with simple slip knot nooses. The victims were first driven to the site on large military trucks, hands & feet tied & noosed. They sat as the final preparations were made for their executions.
After all the trucks were in place, their back gates were opened & the war criminals made to stand, whimpering in terror, for the reading of their death warrants. The prisoners were then lifted up on to the chairs & made to stand. Then the hangings began.
Not all the trucks departed at the same time, so that the last hanged were given the sight of their comrades swinging & kicking before their own trucks got underway.
All of the women died hard, swinging backwards & forwards, arms rising up backs, bound legs trying to kick & stretching, trying in vain to reach the ground, hiking up skirts, feet twisting & squirming dislodging shoes, necks visibly elongating, eyes bulging & tongues protruding.
The prisoners remained conscious for a few minutes eventually after 10 minutes their air ran out & the struggling ceased & they hung still at the end of their ropes. Justice had been served
52: World War II: Concentration Camp Guards
Alyssia then moved on to the fates of female concentration camp guards executed by the allies for war crimes
The Stutthof Guards
In 1946 the Red Army captured the Nazis who had run the infamous Stutthof death camp including five women, Elisabeth Becker, Gerda Steinhof, Wanda Klaff, Erna Beilhardt & Jenny Wanda Barkman, who was known to the camp inmates as “The beautiful angel of death”.
At their trial the SS women behaved insolently. During the procedings they giggled & joked. Barkmann changed her hair do every day & flirted with the guards. However when the public prosecutor asked for capital punishment they all cried & pleaded for their lives to no avail & they were each sentenced to death by hanging
They five women were executed before a large crowd in 1946 along with a number of men. The gallows were arranged in pairs with two prisoners to be hanged from each.
All were to be given a slow hanging with simple slip knot nooses. The victims were first driven to the site on large military trucks, hands & feet tied & noosed. They sat as the final preparations were made for their executions.
After all the trucks were in place, their back gates were opened & the war criminals made to stand, whimpering in terror, for the reading of their death warrants. The prisoners were then lifted up on to the chairs & made to stand. Then the hangings began.
Not all the trucks departed at the same time, so that the last hanged were given the sight of their comrades swinging & kicking before their own trucks got underway.
All of the women died hard, swinging backwards & forwards, arms rising up backs, bound legs trying to kick & stretching, trying in vain to reach the ground, hiking up skirts, feet twisting & squirming dislodging shoes, necks visibly elongating, eyes bulging & tongues protruding.
The prisoners remained conscious for a few minutes eventually after 10 minutes their air ran out & the struggling ceased & they hung still at the end of their ropes. Justice had been served
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