1945: Angelo Chiappe
1 comment January 23rd, 2019 Headsman
French Nazi collaborator Angelo Chiappe was shot on this day in 1945.
A right-wing legislator and adherent of the fascist Action Francaise movement before the war, Chiappe copped an appointment as the Vichy prefect of the Gard department. There he made himself hateful to the war’s eventual winners by his enthusiasm for hunting French Resistance members, communists, and Jews for forced labor and deportation and worse.
Captured in August 1944, he was shot January 23, 1945 before the gorgeous Roman arena of Nimes.
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Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Execution,France,History,Politicians,Public Executions,Shot,Treason
Tags: 1940s, 1945, angelo chiappe, january 23, nimes, vichy france, world war ii
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