Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One man, in a lone cell in the grey prison building, was bitter with a special German kind of bitterness. Granted a stay of execution, Otto Striegel snapped: "Why wasn't I hanged with my comrades?"
Official, fully legal execution has been used rather sparingly in the U.S.S.R. Since estimates of labor-camp prisoners run from five to 30 million, the number now made available to the camps will not greatly increase the forced labor supply.
Look who's sneaked in for a very worried view of the Budapest execution [see cut, TIME, April 28]. . . .
¶ Leaning on a cane, hook-nosed Fernand de Brinon, former Vichy representative to German-occupied France, limped to an execution post at the Fort de Montrouge, outside Paris. A volley from the firing squad ended him.
In his month-long trial Hoess denied none of Auschwitz's horrors. He offered one sentence of defense: "All my actions resulted from orders which I received." He was proud of having designed the gas chambers in which 2,000 persons could be put to death at one time...