Pete26 wrote: ↑20 May 2023 03:53
Here is the list of fallbeil execution sites in the third Reich and number of people executed at each site:
Berlin Plotzensee: at least 2500 (1933-1945)
Brandenburg Gorden: 2743 (1940-1945)
Breslau(Wroclaw): at least 775 (1939-1944)
Bruchsal: 64 (1944-1945)
Butzbach: 7 (1933-1937)
Danzig: at least 4 (1944-1945)
Dortmund: 305 (1934-36) and (1943-1945)
Dreibergen-Butzow: 53 (1942 and 1945)
Dresden: 1356 (1934-1945)
Frankfurt-Preungesheim: at least 345 (1938-1945)
Graz: at least 156 (1943-1945)
Halle: 546 (1942-1945)
Hamburg: 468 (1933-1944)
Hannover: 3 (1933-1937)
Kattowitz (Katowice): 552 (1941-1945)
Koln: at least 1000 (1933-1945)
Konigsberg: no data (1936-1945)
Munchen Stadelheim: 1381 (1934-1945)
Posen (Poznan): at least 1680 (1939-1945)
Prague Pankrac: 1079 (1943-1945)
Stuttgart: 454 (1933-1944)
Weimar: 197 (1933-1945)
Wien: 1187 (1938-1945)
Wolfenbuttel: at least 516 (1937-1945)
Total executions for all 24 Central Execution Sites: at least 17336 (1933-1945)
Source: Hinrichtungen in Hamburg und Altona 1933-1944 by Andreas Seeger and Fritz Treichel
It is, however, noteable that not all these executions were by Fallbeil. At least in Plötzensee all executions up to the early months of 1937 were carried out by Handbeil.
Also, the 16 executions in Dreibergen-Bützow in 1942 were carried out with hand axe.
Sources:
Plötzensee memorial
Wagner A. 2003. Die Hinrichtung der "Rostocker Plünderer" 1942 in Bützow. Zeitgeschichte Regional 7 Heft 2: 24-29