1948: Johannes Rasmussen, Danish Resistance betrayer
Add comment May 13th, 2019 Headsman
Anti-Nazi Danish Resistance turncoat Johannes Rasmussen was shot at Viborg on this date in 1948.
Arrested by the Gestapo in December 1943, Rasmussen (Danish link) broke under torture and informed on his former comrades, but he also extended his collaboration far beyond (more Danish) mere capitulation and became their henchman and collaborator. Rasmussen befriended his captors and working as an interpreter and interrogator until someone from the Resistance shot him in February 1945 and left him bedridden.
Arrested on the day after the German occupation ended, he unsurprisingly got no mercy from the countrymen he had betrayed.
On this day..
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- 1803: Peter Stout - 2015
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- 1945: Bruno Dorfer and Rainer Beck, Wehrmacht deserters - 2013
- 1828: Carbonari in Ravenna - 2012
- 2005: Shanmugam Murugesu, for the chronic - 2011
- 2005: Michael Ross, the Roadside Strangler - 2010
- 1880: Edwin Hoyt, in Bridgeport - 2009
- 1881: Not Billy the Kid - 2008
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Denmark,Execution,Germany,History,Occupation and Colonialism,Shot,Treason
Tags: 1940s, 1948, johannes rasmussen, may 13, viborg, world war ii
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