Beheadings in the Third Reich

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Re: Stadelheim fallbeil

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I also posted the second video showing installation of the blade but that video has been removed from the site.

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Re: Beheadings in the Third Reich

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Post by von thoma » 11 May 2017, 05:11

Did Hitler ever grant pardon in any execution ? He had that power ?
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Re: Beheadings in the Third Reich

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Post by Pete26 » 11 May 2017, 05:17

von thoma wrote:Did Hitler ever grant pardon in any execution ? He had that power ?
Thank for the answers.
Yes, Hitler had power to grant a pardon or commute a death sentence. The following source lists one case in 1944 when he commuted death sentence of an individual convicted of massive embezzlement and reduced the sentence to a short prison term.

https://books.google.com/books?id=9mEaC ... te&f=false

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Re: Beheadings in the Third Reich

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Post by Paul53 » 11 May 2017, 20:41

But Hitlers pardon was only given in about 3 a 4 % of the total amount of death sentences.Source: Berufswunsch Henker.

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The last execution at Munchner Platz, Dresden

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Post by Pete26 » 16 May 2017, 06:46

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Sylvester Murau

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9 ... hwZftms-Oc

Die letzte Hinrichtung am Münchner Platz wurde 1956 in der damaligen DDR durchgeführt. Sylvester Murau war Mitarbeiter des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit, flüchtete in die BRD und arbeitete dort als Spion mit dem BND zusammen. Er wurde entführt, in die DDR zurückgebracht und hier durch Lucie von Ehrenwall zum Tode verurteilt. Er wurde am 16. Mai 1956 von Scharfrichter Walter Böttcher um 4:10 Uhr geköpft.
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The last execution at the Münchner Platz was carried out in 1956 in the then GDR. Sylvester Murau was a member of the Ministry of State Security, escaped to Germany and worked as a spy with the BND. He was abducted, brought back to the GDR and condemned to death by Lucie von Ehrenwall. He was beheaded on 16 May 1956 by executioner Walter Böttcher at 4:10 am.
http://dresden-sehenswürdigkeiten.com/g ... z-dresden/

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Murau

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Re: Beheadings in the Third Reich

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Post by rbea » 16 May 2017, 08:30

hello
here are 2 pictures of Reichert, I found them on u tube I don'r know if they were posted
Reichert1.jpg
Reichert.jpg

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Post by fredric » 16 May 2017, 18:12

Here is some info about these well-known pictures which may be of interest:

Top photo was taken at Stadelheim or Regensburg and the date in the late 1930's.
It is not a professional photo. It is a snap-shot of a sharfrichter probably about to carry out an execution(s). In the full
photo, Johann holds a cigarette. I wonder if Reichhart and his team were getting saw dust (note the stacked wood).
He wears full execution attire with "zylinder, schwarzen Gehrock" etc. and a top coat so it was cold when photo was taken. This photo was illegal because cameras were not permitted in the prison. Johann was an elegant. often arrogant fellow who apparently loved having his picture taken. Here we see Johann when he was starting to make good money as a Scharfrichter. It may have been in a binder (hole punched). His eyes are narrow and puffy so when I first saw this photo years ago, I wondered if it was Johann Reichhart.
It is, thanks to confirmation by Mr. Gordon Anderson.

Btm. photo is Reichhart's Nazi Party identification photo taken on 1 May 1937 in Munich. I have his party registration, issued same
date and it carries the number 5096271 and his birth date, 29.4.93. I think several photos were taken at the time he joined the party
but are lost. He was one of the two sharfrichters who were NSDAP members. A good, professional identification
portrait of Johann Reichhart.

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Re: Beheadings in the Third Reich

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Post by Piotr1 » 16 May 2017, 18:14

hello
here are 2 pictures of Reichert, I found them on u tube I don'r know if they were posted

Shalom ! They were.... :D

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Wilhelm Schäfer

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Josef Jakubowski

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Post by Pete26 » 20 May 2017, 05:17

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http://www.executedtoday.com/images/Jos ... bowski.jpg

Josef Jakubowski was beheaded on 15 February 1926 in Strelitz for the crime he did not commit. The first article mentions that he was guillotined, however the wikipedia article states that he was beheaded with an axe.
His case is one of the most significant errors of law in the German legal history of the 20th century and has not been formally corrected until today.

http://www.executedtoday.com/category/g ... ne/page/2/

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Jakubowski

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Emil Hübner

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Post by Pete26 » 21 May 2017, 15:22

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Emil Hübner was one of the oldest prisoners executed in Berlin-Plötzensee prison. He was 81 years old when executed on 5 August 1943.


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Post by Max » 24 May 2017, 06:19

Greetings from the Wide Brown.

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Post by tomh » 24 May 2017, 11:39

Great Patriotic War museum, Kiev.

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Post by fredric » 24 May 2017, 18:53

Yes, Great Patriotic War museum, Kiev. This is one of the best preserved Mannhardt fallbeile existing.
The reason is that the tipping board is still in place which is quite rare. This machine is about 160 years old.
Most Mannhardts were modified, filling the slot and removing the tipping board. This shortened the execution time.
The blade is missing. It is in a Breslau museum and we have a few photos on
this site. I believe the head-catching component may be a repro but it is good. On the floor you can see wooden clogs
worn by the condemned and the stand for holding the schlittern during installation.

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