Beheadings in the Third Reich
Wilhelm Rietze
Wilhelm Rietze was guillotined in Brandenburg Gorden prison on 28 August 1944.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Rietze
Ernst Maas
Ernst Maas was guillotined in Köln Klingelpütz prison on 13 July 1944.
https://www.gedenkbuch-wuppertal.de/de/person/maas
Translated:Pressevermerk: "Am 13 Juli 1944 ist der 37jährige Ernst Maas aus Wuppertal-Elberfeld hingerichtet worden, den das Sondergericht in Wuppertal als Volksschädling zum Tode verurteilt hat. Maas hat nach dem Terrorangriff auf Wuppertal-Barmen aus dem Keller eines brennenden Hauses eine größere Anzahl von Kleidungstücken geplündert.
This is another example of death sentence for looting after a bombing raid.
Press comment: "37-year-old Ernst Maas from Wuppertal-Elberfeld was executed on 13 July 1944. The Special Court in Wuppertal sentenced him to death as a people's pest." Maas has stolen large quantity of clothes from the basement of a burning house after the terrorist attack on Wuppertal-Barmen.
Josef Cohen
Josef Cohen was guillotined in Hamburg Holstenglacis prison on 26 June1941 at the age of 24. The executioner was Ernst Reindel. Josef Cohen was sentenced to death and executed for the crime of "racial defilement".
https://stolperstein-geschichten.de/ges ... sef-cohen/
https://translate.google.com/translate? ... f-cohen%2F
Pierre Carpentier
Catholic priest Pierre Carpentier was guillotined in Dortmund on 30 June 1943 at 1915 hours at the age of 31.
http://www.abbeville-passion.fr/article ... &tconfig=0
Desire Didry
Desire Didry was guillotined in Dortmund on 30 June 1943.
Protais Dubois
Protais Dubois was guillotined in Dortmund on 30 June 1943.
Andre Druart
Andre Druart was guillotined in Koln on 25 October 1943 at 1645 hours.
Drouart, geboren 1896 in Drocourt, Frankreich, engagierte sich im belgischen und französischen Widerstand, wurde festgenommen und über Brüssel am 19.12. 1942 nach Bochum verbracht. Ab Juni 1943 verhandelte man seinen Fall in Bonn verhandelt, Urteil: Todesstrafe. Diese wurde unter der Kölner Guillotine am 25.10. 1943 um 16.45 Uhr vollstreckt.
Drouart, born in Drocourt, France, in 1896, became involved in the Belgian and French Resistance, was arrested and detained via Brussels on 19.12. Spent 1942 in Bochum. From June 1943 one negotiated his case in Bonn negotiated, judgment: death penalty. This was under the Cologne Guillotine on 25.10. Executed in 1943 at 16.45.
http://www.getuigen.be/kruemmede/Texte/ ... tm#Drouart, André
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Fernand Francou
Fernand Francou was guillotined on 29 November 1943 in Wolfenbuettel prison.
Francou, geboren am 26.02.1883, war belgischer Industrieller aus Marcinelle/Charleroi. Die Gründe seiner Inhaftierung konnten im Einzelnen nicht recherchiert werden. Er war in den Gefängnissen Bochum, Wuppertal, Esterwegen und Wolfenbüttel. Dort wurde er am 15.10.1943 zum Tode verurteilt und am 29.11.1943 durch die Guillotine hingerichtet.
http://www.getuigen.be/kruemmede/Texte/ ... tm#Francou, Fernand
Kilian Kirchhoff
Catholic priest Kilian Kirchhoff was guillotined in Brandenburg-Gorden prison on 24 April 1944.
https://www.pv-bigge-lenne-fretter-tal. ... kirchhoff/
Partial list of individuals guillotined in Dortmund
More than 300 people were guillotined in Dortmund during Third Reich era. This is a list of 71 people who were guillotined there, listing the date of the execution and also the exact time of each execution. Most of the people listed are Belgians.
http://www.herinneringmemoire.be/lijste ... elgier.htm
http://www.herinneringmemoire.be/lijste ... elgier.htm
Katowice prison in 1930's
Katowice prison was one of Central Execution Sites of the Third Reich. Katowice guillotine (Tegel type) was set up in a separate building made of red brick. This photo gallery shows what this prison looked like in the 1930's, prior to invasion of Poland by German troops in 1939.
https://www.se.pl/slask/galeria/tak-w-l ... -tTXr-kAjk
https://www.se.pl/slask/galeria/tak-w-l ... -tTXr-kAjk
Dortmund execution notice
Polish girl Irena Skibinska was guillotined in Dortmund on 17 September 1943 at the age of 18.
The last sentence in the execution notice reads: "She had set fire to her employer's estate in revenge".
She was sentenced to death in Bielefeld which is about 100 km northeast of Dortmund, where the sentence was carried out. This death sentence is eerily similar to that of 17 year old Polish boy Walerjan Wrobel who was guillotined for arson in Hamburg on 25 August 1942. Most likely Irena was a forced laborer in Germany, just like Walerjan Wrobel.
http://www.herinneringmemoire.be/docume ... /index.htm
https://translate.google.com/translate? ... Findex.htm
Othmar Schraußer
Othmar Schraußer was guillotined in Vienna on 2 December 1942.
https://othmar-schrausser.zurerinnerung.at/
Kajetan Wachter
Kajetan Wachter was guillotined in Vienna on 2 December 1942.
https://kajetan-wachter.zurerinnerung.at/
Franz Winkelmann
Franz Winkelmann was guillotined in Vienna on 8 November 1943.
https://franz-winkelmann.zurerinnerung.at/