http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/12/13/1945-belsen-irma-grese-josef-kramer/ Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:46:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/12/13/1945-belsen-irma-grese-josef-kramer/#comment-12416 ExecutedToday.com » Daily Double: Lesser War Criminals Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:26:54 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=1593#comment-12416 [...] November 30th, 2009 Headsman It’s the big wheels in villainy one naturally thinks of when reckoning the Third Reich’s war criminals — the Reichsprotekotors and concentration camp commandants; the Adolf Eichmanns and the Beast of Belsens. [...] [...] November 30th, 2009 Headsman It’s the big wheels in villainy one naturally thinks of when reckoning the Third Reich’s war criminals — the Reichsprotekotors and concentration camp commandants; the Adolf Eichmanns and the Beast of Belsens. [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/12/13/1945-belsen-irma-grese-josef-kramer/#comment-12027 ExecutedToday.com » Executed Today’s Second Annual Report: Once Bitten, Twice Die Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:27:26 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=1593#comment-12027 [...] a link from Andrew Sullivan, but scant ongoing traffic promises further sinkage in the year ahead. 18. December 13, 1945: The Belsen war criminals - Featuring Irma Grese, the “Beast of Belsen”. 19. June 25, 1959: Charles Starkweather [...] [...] a link from Andrew Sullivan, but scant ongoing traffic promises further sinkage in the year ahead. 18. December 13, 1945: The Belsen war criminals - Featuring Irma Grese, the “Beast of Belsen”. 19. June 25, 1959: Charles Starkweather [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/12/13/1945-belsen-irma-grese-josef-kramer/#comment-6655 ExecutedToday.com » Themed Set: The Feminine Mystique Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:48:01 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=1593#comment-6655 [...] is a noticeably gendered one: whether as common criminals, fallen royals, political prisoners, war criminals, or any other subset of the execution-prone, women who face the headsmen map differently in the [...] [...] is a noticeably gendered one: whether as common criminals, fallen royals, political prisoners, war criminals, or any other subset of the execution-prone, women who face the headsmen map differently in the [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/12/13/1945-belsen-irma-grese-josef-kramer/#comment-3223 ExecutedToday.com » 1950: James Corbitt, the hangman’s mate Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:54:08 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=1593#comment-3223 [...] Despite his proper avoidance of the spotlight, Pierrepoint’s excellence at his craft would make him a celebrity — especially after the press fixated on his role hanging Nazi war criminals after World War II. The ready-made morality play upon the scaffold boards could hardly be resisted: the English grocer, meting out a dignified and precise measure of justice to the likes of the Beast of Belsen. [...] [...] Despite his proper avoidance of the spotlight, Pierrepoint’s excellence at his craft would make him a celebrity — especially after the press fixated on his role hanging Nazi war criminals after World War II. The ready-made morality play upon the scaffold boards could hardly be resisted: the English grocer, meting out a dignified and precise measure of justice to the likes of the Beast of Belsen. [...]

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