1946: Eleven from the Stutthof concentration camp
July 4th, 2008 Headsman
On this date in 1946, officials of Soviet-occupied Poland publicly hanged eleven convicted war criminals of the Stutthof concentration camp.
Set up immediately upon Germany’s September 1, 1939 invasion of Poland and not liberated until after official German capitulation in 1945, Stutthoff handled over 100,000 prisoners during its long service.
This day’s condemned — camp commandant Johann Pauls, five male kapos, and five female guards — were the product of the first of four Stutthof trials held in 1946-1947. At a hill in Gdansk known as Biskupia Gorka (Bishop Hill), upon a specially-erected row of four T-shaped double gallows centered around a pi-shaped triple gallows, and before a crowd of thousands, the doomed eleven were noosed on the back of military trucks which then drove away to leave them strangling to death with a “short drop” hanging.
The following gut-twisting images are among a number to be found here.
There’s more about Stutthof’s history at the Holocaust Research Project, and at the current memorial facility’s home page.
On this day..
- 1855: Pietro Fortunato Calvi, the last Belfiore Martyr - 2020
- 1450: James Fiennes, Baron Saye and Sele - 2019
- 1828: William Rice but not John Montgomery, who cheated the hangman with prussic acid - 2018
- 1835: Joshua Cotton and William Saunders, steam doctors - 2017
- 1741: Will, Ward's Negro - 2016
- 1941: Numberless Poles and Jews by Felix Landau's Einsatzkommando - 2015
- 1589: Hemmerlein, chief-ranger of the Margrave - 2014
- 1762: Crown Prince Sado, locked in a rice chest - 2013
- 2011: Scott McLaren, Highlander - 2012
- 1861: Francisco del Rosario Sanchez - 2011
- 1533: John Frith and Andrew Hewet, Protestants - 2010
- 1187: Raynald of Chatillon, by Saladin - 2009
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,Concentration Camps,Death Penalty,Execution,Germany,Hanged,History,Mass Executions,Mature Content,Occupation and Colonialism,Poland,Public Executions,Russia,USSR,War Crimes,Women
Tags: 1946, bischofschugel, biskupia gorka, danzig, elisabeth becker, ewa paradies, fascism, franciszek szopinski, gdansk, gerda steinhoff, holocaust, jan breit, jenny wanda barkmann, johann pauls, joseph reiter, july 4, kapos, nazi, naziism, stolzenberg, stutthof, sztutowo, tadeus kopczynski, waclaw kozlowski, wanda klaff, world war ii
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Headsman, you ought to investigate this nutter above who is issuing death threats on your site.
“National Socialism was RIGHT and we will return and we will remember things like this, so lowlife like you had better beware.”
If I ever meet up with you I WILL kill you. I PROMISE.
Dave with an atitude like that you should be #12.
Dave,
you are right, they should have been soaked in gasoline and torched right before they were hanged.
Loved seeing the nazi scum hanging,i hope they suffered a long agonising death.
Get back into the undergrowth you crawled from, Dave. National Socialism is destruction , terror, repression, waste, and death. Hitler shot his brains out in despair. Go and do the same, you BNP piece of sh-t.
You are fucking FILTH! We will rise again and we will destroy ALL of you scum who revel in this disgusting obscene filth.
You excuses for human beings are no better than you “accuse” the National Socialists of being.
The “people” who did this and all adults who watched it (I notice there are even very young children watching, says a lot about the sort of “people” perpetrating these disgusting CRIMES) should be tried and punished. It is totally illegal, hanging has to be done in a certain way and this was certainly not. It is an obscenity and should be punished, if there are still any of these scum around today, they should be brought to justice.
National Socialism was RIGHT and we will return and we will remember things like this, so lowlife like you had better beware.
Frankly, a nice sight. I wish many more Nazis suffered the same fate.
Wow, Geocities links. This blog has been around for a while.
Thanks, Max — the link is fixed in the entry now as well.
The link refering to a Geocities site is no more valid
Find the story here
http://max.mmvi.de/ssfrauen/danzig.htm
Drama……, Tragedy……. :(:(:(