Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cheated of a formal inquisition and execution, Himmler's captors let his body lie for two days on the floor where he had fallen. Medical authorities removed the brain, took plaster casts of the skull. Finally, a British Army detail, sworn to secrecy, buried the unembalmed body in a...
The Team. The U.S. team for execution of "Plan Eclipse" (TIME, May 21) began to take shape.
¶ Police General Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Heinrich Himmler's specialist in mass execution-by-gas, was found hiding in a fortified chalet in the Tyrol with his adjutant, Artur Scheidler.
Eleven months after his forces invaded western Europe, Supreme Commander Eisenhower informed the Joint Chiefs of Staff: "Our mission is completed." Then Eisenhower began his next mission: the execution of "Plan Eclipse."
There is still no Allied unanimity on what to do with the Emperor. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government has made no bones about its wishes. It wants to dispose of Hirohito as Asia's War Criminal No.1. Acting Premier T. V. Soong has publicly hoped for the...