1945: Three German war criminals
Add comment November 19th, 2010 Headsman
On this date in 1945, three Germans were hanged by the American army at Landsberg for killing downed U.S. pilots during the late war.
Ernst Waldmann, a former Wehrmacht Unteroffizer, was one of the three; he shot an American pilot at Haimbuch in December 1944.
The other two were policemen Wilhelm Haffner and Albert Bury, who killed a downed pilot at Langen Sel Bold that same month — under, they protested, the coercion of the SS.
As the New York Times report noted, they died “within sight” of the cell in that same prison where Adolf Hitler (serving easy time for the Beer Hall Putsch) wrote Mein Kampf.
This was, coincidentally, also the same date that American president Harry S Truman first transmitted to Congress a national health insurance proposal. The doctors’ lobby howled it down as rank Bolshevism … leading to the bizarre ascendancy of the Rube Goldberg-esque employer-based insurance system that had sprouted during World War II as a consequence of wartime wage controls limiting employers’ ability to bid for workers’ service.
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Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Execution,Germany,Hanged,History,Murder,Occupation and Colonialism,Soldiers,USA,War Crimes
Tags: 1940s, 1945, adolf hitler, albert bury, beer hall putsch, ernst waldmann, haimbuch, harry s truman, health care, langen sel bold, langsberg prison, mein kampf, november 19, police, wilhelm haffner, world war ii
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