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Re: 31 death masks

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Post by Helmut0815 » 11 Mar 2015, 18:22

Pete26 wrote: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.
The head of Fritz Haarman was cremated after almost 90 years in march 2014 and the ashes have been buried anonymously on the Junkerberg cemetery in Göttingen.

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Re: 31 death masks

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Post by Pete26 » 12 Mar 2015, 18:15

Helmut0815 wrote:
Pete26 wrote: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.
The head of Fritz Haarman was cremated after almost 90 years in march 2014 and the ashes have been buried anonymously on the Junkerberg cemetery in Göttingen.

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Thanks for the update. One has to wonder why they kept his head so long.

Here is a photo of workers making a death mask in 1908:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... Edit_4.jpg
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Re: Beheaded for spilling milk

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Post by Pete26 » 12 Mar 2015, 18:17

ChristopherPerrien wrote:
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.
I found another reference to this case. Unfortunately the linked page in the text is no longer active.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Force ... rld_War_II
Many workers were killed or sent to concentration camps, where they died or became handicapped, because of relatively small problems. One woman was killed because she poured milk on a German woman. Xx236 (talk) 08:23, 21 April 2008 (UTC) Wanda Daczkowska was killed on November 27, 1942 in Breslau. p. 91 Xx236 (talk) 07:46, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Perhaps our Polish members can shed some light on this case?

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Adolf Zierler

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Post by Pete26 » 13 Mar 2015, 04:16

Adolf Zierler, a Jehovah Witness and a conscientious objector to war, was beheaded in Plotzensee prison on 15 December 1939 at the age of 22.

http://www.salzburg.com/wiki/images/d/d ... ierler.pdf

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Polish scouts...

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Post by Piotr1 » 13 Mar 2015, 20:38

Monika Dymska and Wanda Wegierska
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monika_Dymska
http://www.ogrodywspomnien.pl/index/showd/71670
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P.S I can not find more informations about Wanda Daszkowska/Daczkowska(?) guillotined in Breslau

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Re: Beheadings in the Third Reich

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Re: Beheadings in the Third Reich

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Post by fredric » 14 Mar 2015, 07:13

Pete26 wrote: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.
One of the best books containing information on acts which were punished by death by the courts of the Reich is "Hitler's Justice" by Ingo Muller.
I had never heard the "milk" story before but certainly even the taking a small item from a bombed building (a well-documented case is the taking
of a small tin cup) often was construed as looting and earned the "looter" a one-way trip to the fallbeil.

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Executed deserters from Hannover

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Post by Pete26 » 22 Mar 2015, 05:37

http://deserteure-hannover.de/files/des ... nnover.pdf

Note that 37 year old Herbert Hanebuth, a Wehrmacht deserter from Hannover, was guillotined in Pankrac prison on 6 April 1944 at 1602 hours.

Hanebuth, Herbert

Geb.: 10.12.1906 Hannover
Wehrmachtgefangenenabteilung Milo-
witz/Protektorat, Schütze
Gericht: Gericht der 539.
Div., Prag XIX
Urteil: Todesurteil
Vollstreckung: 06.04.1944 16.02 Uhr
in Prag-Pankratz durch Enthaupten


Soldaten aus Hannover unter dem Fallbeil
Bei lokalgeschichtlichen Recherchen nach Soldaten aus dem Raum Hannover,
die im Zweiten Weltkrieg desertiert sind, hat Norbert Haase in der Totenliste
des Zuchthauses Brandenburg-Görden sieben Hannoveraner gefunden.9 Sie
wurden vom Gericht der Wehrmachtkommandantur Berlin wegen “Fahnen-
flucht" bzw. “Wehrkraftzersetzung” zum Tode verurteilt. Die Verfahren
wurden nach Berlin abgegeben, wenn der Deserteur nach dreimonatiger
Abwesenheit nicht gefaßt werden konnte, bzw. Deserteure im Großraum
Berlin aufgegriffen wurden oder, was selten vorkam, der Gerichtsherr der
zuständigen Militäreinheit Widerspruch gegen das gefällte Urteil eingelegt
hatte.10 Bis zur Vollstreckung des Urteils waren sie im Zuchthaus Branden-
burg-Görden inhaftiert, bevor sie dort mit dem Fallbeil hingerichtet wurden.
Nach dem Krieg wurden in einer hannoverschen Zeitung Angehörige dieser
Hingerichteten gesucht, die auf dem Friedhof des Zuchthauses Brandenburg-
Görden bestattet sind.11.
Wer waren diese hannoverschen Soldaten. Als Beispiel soll hier versucht
werden die Geschichte des Deserteurs Adolf Oppermann anhand der Kriegs-
gerichtsakte nachzuzeichnen. Oppermann aus Hannover-Limmer war verhei-
ratet und hatte ein Kind. Er wurde in seiner militärischen Beurteilung als
“haltloser, verschlossener und ängstlicher Charakter” dargestellt. In der
Urteilsbegründung steht: “Als Soldat in der inneren und äußeren Haltung
schlecht. [...] Am 11.8.1942 wurde durch das Gericht der Wehrmachtkom-
mandantur Berlin gegen ihn auf eine Gesamtstrafe von 4 Jahren und 3 Mo-
naten Gefängnis wegen Zersetzung der Wehrkraft, unerlaubter Entfernung,
Betrug in 2 Fällen und Unterschlagung erkannt. [...] ... und Verbringung in
ein Straflager verfügt. Spätestens jetzt hätte der Angeklagte einsehen müssen,
daß nun das Maß voll war, wenn er nicht als eines jener asozialen Elemente
erachtet und behandelt werden soll, für die während des Zeitalters des totalen
Krieges weniger denn je Platz ist in der deutschen Volksgemeinschaft.”
Einen Tag bevor er nach Torgau ins Straflager verbracht werden sollte, floh
Oppermann. Er wurde aber wenige Tage später in Hildesheim festgenom-
men. Das Gericht verurteilte ihn am 9. Februar 1943 mit folgender Begrün-
dung zum Tode: “... daß der psychopatisch und kriminell veranlagte Ange-
klagte [...] ... eine Persönlichkeit [ist], welche die Todesstrafe verdient. [...]
Er muß also durch Verhängung der Todesstrafe aus dieser Volksgemeinschaft
entfernt werden.”12 (Dokument 4) Menschenverachtende Bewertungen der
Verurteilten mit Begriffen wie “Psychopath” oder “asozial” wie bei Opper-
mann bzw. “minderwertig” und “Wehrmachtsschädling” finden sich häufig in
Kriegsgerichtsakten. (Dokument 5) Ein Gnadengesuch von Oppermann und
das von seinem Vater werden abgelehnt. “[...] Herr General ist es nicht
möglich meinem Sohn Frontbewährung zu gewähren, damit wenn es der
liebe Gott will er auf dem Felde der Ehre den Heldentod erleidet und somit
nicht die ganze Familie mit dem Schandfleck der Unehre das ganze Leben
belastet ist.”13 Adolf Oppermann wurde mit 26 Jahren, am 19. März 1943,
enthauptet. (Dokument 6) Auf Wunsch der Eltern, dem normalerweise nicht
entsprochen wurde, erfolgte die Bestattung auf dem Ricklinger Friedhof.
(Grabstätte existiert nicht mehr).
Translated by google:
Soldiers from Hannover under the guillotine

In local historical research by soldiers from the Hanover area,
who have deserted during World War II, Norbert Haase in the dead list
the penitentiary Brandenburg-Gorden seven Hanoverian you gefunden.9
were the Court of Military command Berlin because of "Flags
aligned "and" sedition "sentenced to death. The method
was submitted to Berlin when the deserter after three months
Absence could not be taken, or deserters in the metropolitan area
Berlin were taken or what was rare, the court of the Lord
inserted competent military unit objection to the verdict,
hatte.10 Until the execution of the sentence they were in prison Brandenburg
burg-Gorden prison before they were executed by guillotine.
After the war, were members of a Hanoverian this newspaper
Executed wanted that on the cemetery of the penitentiary Brandenburg
Gorden buried sind.11.
Who were these Hanoverian soldiers. As an example, tries here
be the story of the deserter Adolf Oppermann reference to the war
Court acts to trace. Oppermann from Hannover-Limmer was mar-
ried and had a child. He was in his military judgment as
"Baseless, sealed and anxious character" shown. In the
Verdict is: "As a soldier in the inner and outer attitude
bad. [...] On 08.11.1942 was by the court of Wehrmachtkom-
mandantur Berlin against him on a total penalty of 4 years and 3 engine
nates in prison for undermining military force, unauthorized removal,
Fraud detected in 2 cases and embezzlement. [...] ... And entry into
a detention camp offers. By now, the defendant should have realized,
Now that enough was enough, if it is not considered one of those anti-social elements
considered and should be treated, for during the age of the total
War, more than ever place is in the German community. "
The day before he was to be brought to Torgau in the prison camp fled,
Oppermann. He was but a few days later festgenom- in Hildesheim
men. The court sentenced him on February 9, 1943, the following reasoning
tion to death: "... that the psychopathic and criminal assessed appropriateness
complained [...] ... a person [is] that deserves the death penalty. [...]
He must, therefore, by the imposition of the death penalty from the national community
be removed. "12 (Document 4) dehumanizing end of Reviews
Condemned by terms such as "psychopath" or "anti-social" as Opper-
man or "inferior" and "Wehrmacht pest" often found in
Military court files. (Document 5) A request for clemency from Oppermann and
that of his father will be rejected. "[...] Sir, it is not
possible for my son to grant probation front, so if it is the
God he wants on the field of honor suffers a hero and thus
not the whole family with the stain of dishonor the whole life
is charged. "13 Adolf Oppermann, with 26 years, on March 19, 1943
beheaded. (Document 6) is not desired, the parents, the normally
have been complied with, took place the burial in the cemetery Ricklinger.
(Tomb no longer exists).

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Hans and Sophie Scholl apartment

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Post by Pete26 » 28 Mar 2015, 14:31

This is the apartment building in Munich where Hans and Sophie Scholl lived until the time of their arrest, and execution just several days later.

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Re: Beheadings in the Third Reich

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Post by fredric » 28 Mar 2015, 19:03

Has anyone seen a photograph of the Stadelheim fallbeil in the execution room?
I have found motion picture footage of the room but the fallbeil has been removed.

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Re: Beheadings in the Third Reich

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Post by Pete26 » 29 Mar 2015, 00:41

fredric wrote:Has anyone seen a photograph of the Stadelheim fallbeil in the execution room?
I have found motion picture footage of the room but the fallbeil has been removed.
This clip has been posted on this forum several months ago. It briefly shows the interior of the
Stadelheim prison execution room, including the sink, but there is no guillotine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Vng-NCQ9Y

Did you find something different? And no, I have not seen a photo of Stadelheim fallbeil installed in the execution room at Stadelheim prison.

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Re: Beheadings in the Third Reich

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Post by fredric » 29 Mar 2015, 07:35

Thanks Pete. I have seen this clip. Unfortunately I have never located a photo of
the fallbeil in the Stadelheim execution room. I am surprised a documentary photo
is not to be found. I understand neither the Bavarian Museum or Stadelheim has one.

I'd like to see how the fallbeil looked when it was at Stadelheim as compared to
the machine the Bavarian National Museum now has in its storage. I am building a model
based upon photos of the Stadelheim fallbeil as it looks today (several changes from the Mannhardt drawing btw).
It is quite an exercise getting it right.

Thanks.

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Dr Karl Schapper

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Post by Pete26 » 30 Mar 2015, 02:52

Dr Karl Schapper was beheaded in Plotzensee prison on 1 February 1941 at the age of 61 for his anti Nazi activities.


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http://www.kreis-ahrweiler.de/kvar/VT/h ... 006.52.htm
Schappers gefährliche Aktivitäten, die Maier-Hultschin als „manchmal bedrückend empfand“, führten schließlich am 9. September 1939 in Niederbreisig – aufgrund der Anzeige eines früher angestellten Gärtners – zur Verhaftung des Sechzigjährigen, seiner offenbar in alle Aktivitäten eingeweihten Ehefrau Irmgard und deren Schwester Gertrud Wambsganss. Geleitet wurde die damalige Verhaftungsaktion im Übrigen von Dr. Werner Braune, einem der späteren, nach Kriegsende in Nürnberg zum Tode verurteilten SS-Einsatzgruppenführer. Nach den Vorermittlungen, in deren Verlauf man auch jene besonders kompromittierenden Mitschriften fand, wurde Karl Schapper im Februar 1940 vom Koblenzer Gestapo-Gefängnis in das Untersuchungsgefängnis Berlin/Moabit überführt und schließlich im Oktober des Jahres zusammen mit seiner Ehefrau und drei weiteren Helfern des »DiP« vor dem II. Senat des berüchtigten Volksgerichtshofs der Prozess gemacht. Während die übrigen Angeklagten wegen der oftmals zweifelhaften Beweislage „lediglich“ teilweise langjährige Freiheitsstrafen erhielten, wurde der wohl in erster Linie wegen einer ausgeprägten „Neigung zum Martyrium“ und seiner „Wahrheitsliebe“ voll geständige Schapper wegen Hochverrats zum Tode verurteilt und am Tag nach dem Urteilsspruch in das Gefängnis Berlin/Plötzensee überstellt. Ein Gnadengesuch seines Halbbruders, des Groß-Möringer Pfarrers und Mitgliedes der Bekennenden Kirche Helmut Schapper, wurde zum Jahreswechsel 1940/41 mit der Begründung abgelehnt, dass sich der Verurteilte im Laufe der Jahre der „schärfsten Zentrumsrichtung“ zugewandt und „zu einem bedenkenlosen Feind des Nationalsozialismus entwickelt“ habe.15) Am 1. Februar 1941 wurde Karl Schapper schließlich in Plötzensee enthauptet.

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Schapper dangerous activities, the Maier-Hultschin as "sometimes oppressive felt" led finally on September 9, 1939 in Niederbreisig - due to the display of a previously employed gardener - the arrest of the age of sixty, his apparently initiated into all activities wife Irmgard and her sister Gertrud Wambsganss. Was passed, the then arrests the remainder of Dr. Werner Braune, one of the later, after the war ended in Nuremberg sentenced to death SS-Einsatzgruppen leaders. After the preliminary investigation, during which they also found that particularly incriminating notes, Karl Schapper was transferred in February 1940 from Koblenz Gestapo Prison Detention Berlin / Moabit and finally in October of the year with his wife and three other volunteers of the "DiP "before the II. Senate of the infamous People's Court made ​​the process. While the other defendants because of the often dubious evidence "only" got partially long prison sentences, was the most condemned primarily because of a strong "tendency to martyrdom" and his "love of truth" fully confessed Schapper treason to death and the day after the verdict transferred to the prison in Berlin / Plotzensee. A pardon his half-brother, the Grand-Möringer priest and member of the Confessing Church Helmut Schapper, was rejected for the year 1940-41 on the grounds that an offender faces over the years the "sharpest center direction" and "an unscrupulous enemy of the developed national socialism "had. 15) On February 1, 1941 Karl Schapper was finally beheaded in Plötzensee.

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The case of Camilla Estermann

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Post by Pete26 » 30 Mar 2015, 23:52

Camilla Estermann, a former Catholic nun, was sentenced to death for sedition and guillotined at Vienna Regional Court on 21 November 1944 at 1815 hours. She was 63 years old. Catholic priest Eduard Kock attended to her in the last moments before the execution. She was buried in a mass grave at Vienna Central Cemetery, just like another executed nun, Helene Kafka (sister Restituta).

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Memorial to Catholic priest Jakob Gapp

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Post by Pete26 » 31 Mar 2015, 00:21

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Catholic priest Jakob Gapp was beheaded by guillotine in Plotzensee prison on 13 August 1943 at 1908 hours. He was 46 years old.

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