We owe this discomfiting executioner’s-eye view from the ranks of German soldiers as they gun down Poles in the town of Bochnia on December 18, 1939 to a partisan attack two days prior by a Polish underground organization called White Eagle. Fifty-six civilians were executed in retaliation.
On this day..
- 1953: Carl Hall and Bonnie Brown Heady
- 1591: Marigje Arriens
- 2009: Gerald Dube, from Cell 10
- 1942: Six aspiring escapees from Dulag-205
- 1946: One sex killer and four POW camp murderers
- 1894: John Cronin, by an automated gallows
- 1691: Eleven at Tyburn
- 1529: Desle la Mansenee in the Luxeuil Trial
- 1789: The Canadian Burglars
- 1609: Vicente Turixi, King of the Moriscos
- 1878: John Kehoe, king and last of the Molly Maguires
- 1838: Seven perpetrators of the Myall Creek Massacre