Beheadings in the Third Reich

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Another photo of Valentina Arkhipova

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Post by Pete26 » 26 Feb 2015, 04:31

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http://www.beeldbankwo2.nl/cgi-bin/frsi ... 1&size=980

She was guillotined on 9 September 1943 by inhuman Nazi judiciary for 2 meters of singed cloth which she took from a bombed out apartment of her neighbor. Her remains were buried in an unmarked grave.

Für die Entwendung von 2 Meter angesengten Stoffs nach einem Bombenangriff 1943 wurde die russische "Fremdarbeiterin" Valentina Archipowa in Frankfurt zum Tode verurteilt. Das Urteil lautete: Tod durch Fallbeil. Der Autor dieses Films, Reinhard Ruttmann, befragte die Einwohner zweier Vororte von Frankfurt am Main und die Beteiligten am Prozess gegen die 24-jährige Russin und fand viele, die sich noch nach 28 Jahren erinnerten. Eine Justizangestellte, die damals mutig von einem "Justizmord" gesprochen und gegen das Urteil protestiert hatte, sowie die verantwortlichen Sonderrichter leben noch. Letztere berufen sich vor der Kamera auf die Weisungen des Reichsjustizministers. Die Fernseh-Dokumentation aber kann nachweisen, dass es sich die Richter - selbst nach der nationalsozialistischen Rechtspraxis - zu leicht machen. Ein Oberstaatsanwalt versuchte vergeblich, das Urteil zu mildern. Die Richter gingen kein Risiko ein. Die "Fremdvölkische" musste sterben und wurde - ohne Kennzeichnung - verscharrt. Dieses Foto entstand wenige Tage vor der Enthauptung der Sowjet-bürgerin Valentina Archipowa in Frankfurt am Main. Sie war als Ostarbeiterin freiwillig nach Deutschland gekommen. Mit einem Monatslon von 16,50 RM konnte sie sich keine Kleidung kaufen. Ein Stück Stoff im Schutt wurde ihr zum Verhängnis.
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For the theft of 2 meters of singed fabric after a bomb attack 1943, the Russian "foreign worker" Valentina Arkhipova was sentenced to death in Frankfurt. The sentence was: death by guillotine. The author of this film, Reinhard Ruttmann, interviewed the residents of two villages in Frankfurt am Main and those involved in the trial of the 24-year-old Russian and found many who still remembered after 28 years. Court clerks who had then courageously spoken of a "judicial murder" and protested against the judgment, and those responsible for special judges are still alive. The latter rely on camera on the instructions of the Minister of Justice. However, the TV documentary can demonstrate that it is the judges - make it too easy - even after the Nazi legal practice. A senior prosecutor tried in vain to mitigate the sentence. The judges were taking no chances. The "foreign races" had to die and she was buried in an unmarked grave. This photo was taken a few days before the beheading of the Soviet citizen Valentina Arkhipova in Frankfurt am Main. She had come as an Eastern worker voluntarily to Germany. With her pay of 16.50 RM she could not buy clothes. A piece of cloth in the rubble was her undoing.
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2 ... 23991.html

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Common grave marker for guillotined Austrians

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Post by Pete26 » 28 Feb 2015, 04:12

The grave is in the Kommunalfriedhof Salzburg.

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http://www.stolpersteine-salzburg.at/st ... e_imgs/511

They were all beheaded in Munich-Stadelheim prison, most likely by Johann Reichhart.

Karl Schallmoser : 22 July 1943

Rudolf Smolik : 30 July 1943

Anton Schuber: 22 July 1943

Heinrich Auer: 30 July 1943

Franz Pottinger: 19 April 1943

Josef Wartinger: 30 July 1943


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Hildegard Burger

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Post by Pete26 » 28 Feb 2015, 07:30

Hildegard Burger was sentenced to death for high treason and beheaded in Graz Landesgericht on 23 September 1943 for her anti Nazi resistance activities.

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http://www.doew.at/cms/images/brfea/tin ... pferin.png

Court documentation for the death sentence:

http://www.doew.at/cms/download/anasd/1 ... burger.pdf

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Memorial plaque for Dr Max Joseph Metzger

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Post by Pete26 » 28 Feb 2015, 17:02

Catholic priest Max Joseph Metzger was beheaded in Brandgenburg-Gorden prison on 17 April 1944.

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... etzger.jpg

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http://www.luise-berlin.de/bms/BMSBIL00/metzger3.JPG

During his trial by the People's court, Roland Freisler told him that people like him should be "eradicated".

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Executed at Frankfurt Preungesheim

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Post by htk » 01 Mar 2015, 22:03

Executed at Frankfurt Preungesheim

SMILDE Louwe 05.02.1942 19 Jahre, Niederlande

executed for while trying to escape from Gutersloh prison with german Helmut Willert (Dortmund), hitting a watchman twice over the head with a heavy water jug. Why he was at Gutersloh prison is not known.

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http://www.genealogiekruizinga.nl/wp-co ... dstraf.png

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Re: Executed at Frankfurt Preungesheim

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Post by Pete26 » 02 Mar 2015, 00:16

I added a google translated link for those who do not speak Dutch:

https://translate.google.com/translate? ... edit-text=

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Post titles

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Post by Pete26 » 06 Mar 2015, 16:50

What happened to all of the post titles in this thread?

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Notices of axe beheadings in Berlin

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Beheaded for spilling milk

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Post by Pete26 » 07 Mar 2015, 07:18

Polish store worker Wanda Dackowska was beheaded on 27 November 1942 in Wroclaw (Breslau) for spilling milk on a German woman.

http://facet.interia.pl/news-ciemna-str ... nId,448924

https://translate.googleusercontent.com ... google.com

Wroclaw prison which was one of the Central Execution sites of the Third Reich and had its own Mannhardt type guillotine:

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http://i.iplsc.com/wroclawskie-wiezieni ... 116-F4.jpg

It is unclear if this claim is based on facts:
It has been claimed that it took just 90 minutes to guillotine 75 prisoners at Breslau Prison.
http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/guillotine.html
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Some more fallbeil info

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Post by Pete26 » 07 Mar 2015, 07:51

http://www.shops-mieten.com/shop/shops/ ... ges&pd=519

https://translate.googleusercontent.com ... RbxvjIFozA

According to this article the "Tegel" type fallbeil was designed in 1937 by the Bavarian Physical & Technical Institute at the request of the Reich's Ministry of Justice, and then manufactured in Tegel prison workshops.

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Re: Beheadings in the Third Reich

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Post by vinnievega » 08 Mar 2015, 00:04

Hi Pete,

You've done a bang up job for this site and it seems to me that you amassed enough material to do a book. You're very knowledgeable in all aspects of the subject; technical info on the falbeil itself, the various models employed, biographical info on the victims and executioners, execution protocol, eyewitness accounts, the Nazi justice system, as well as the historical context in which this all occurred. I especially enjoy the biographies of the victims because it provides a human element to the subject.

You're an excellent researcher and I hope you will consider writing a book. Bravo on a job well done.

Vinnie

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Re: Beheadings in the Third Reich

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Post by Pete26 » 08 Mar 2015, 04:21

Thank you Vinnie. All that contributed to this long thread deserve to be recognized.

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31 death masks

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Post by Pete26 » 11 Mar 2015, 04:35

http://www.mediengeschichte.uni-siegen. ... masken.pdf

See page 161 of the linked document above. There is a photo of 31 death masks displayed in a case. These are the death masks of people guillotined in Hamburg between 1856 and 1949.

On page 165 is a photo of the preserved head of Fritz Haarman who was guillotined in 1925. His head is still kept in a jar to this day at the University of Gottingen.

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Re: Beheaded for spilling milk

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Post by ChristopherPerrien » 11 Mar 2015, 09:49

Pete26 wrote:Polish store worker Wanda Dackowska was beheaded on 27 November 1942 in Wroclaw (Breslau) for spilling milk on a German woman.

http://facet.interia.pl/news-ciemna-str ... nId,448924
One press article , hardly believable. I would gather there would be trial and execution records, detailing such.

I don't think it wise to sully a good topic as this without better research.

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Re: Beheadings in the Third Reich

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Post by Pete26 » 11 Mar 2015, 15:24

If this story is true, my guess would be that this was not the case of accidentally spilling milk on someone. Death sentence for that would not be credible. Rather, the worker deliberately dumped large quantity of milk on a German woman, perhaps in a fit of anger, and perhaps even assaulted her physically after that. This could then be prosecuted as a case of assault on a German citizen, together with a deliberate act of destroying food, which was a very serious crime during wartime in the Third Reich. A zealous prosecutor could turn this into a serious crime worthy the death penalty.

There are well documented cases of people being guillotined for trying to set a barn on fire and not succeeding, for taking small items from ruins of a building, for expressing doubts about winning the War, for telling jokes about the Fuhrer or some other high Nazi official, for expressing approval of the assassination attempt on Hitler, etc.

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