“Newly caught Herero prisoners-of-war were hung by the neck. Since that day, I would often see Herero swaying from the branch of a tree.”
-Diary of German soldier Emil Malzahn, writing of prisoners captured and summarily executed 26 September 1904 at the waterhole of Owisombo-Owidimbo during the Herero genocide
On this day..
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- 1939: Javier Bueno, Asturian socialist newsman
- 1879: Anthony Blair
- 1946: Hong Sa-ik, a Korean general in the Japanese army
- 1568: Leonor de Cisneros, chastised wife
- 1965: Kenneth Roraback and Rocky Versace, Vietnam War POWs
- 1803: Joseph Samuel survives three hangings
- 2003: Vignes Mourthi, framed in Singapore?
- 1778: James "Sandy Flash" Fitzpatrick
- 1913: Joe Richardson lynched
- 1764: Lt. Vasily Mirovich, for attempting to topple Catherine the Great
- 1396: Thousands of knights of the Last Crusade