Word: executioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Die Weltwoche said that only a thoughtful minority of German leaders stood between Occupied Europe and the execution of the extremists' plans. This minority argued that Germany's one hope was to make no more enemies, do nothing to increase the huge postwar reparations bill. Germans who put...
In Berlin a 27-year-old woman was beheaded for snatching another woman's purse. Execution for such trivial offenses was decreed to help stop the flow of stolen ration cards into the hands of speculators.
¶ Hitler. "Whatever comes of this war there must be no killing of Hitler. Not that there can be any serious objection in these sanguinary days to a certain amount of preventive and exemplary killing. . . . There is a long list of sane men, torturers, sadists and murderers, who should be...
"On declaration that any area becomes a zone of operations: all civilians aged from 16 to 50 must be at once formed into labor units and sent as far as possible from the zone. ... If there is passive resistance . . . form reprisal camps for recalcitrants. In case of violence, military law...
She was right. That day eleven were shot. One, a civilian named Victor Marin, had been tortured all night to make him tell the names of his associates. He did not break down. When taken out for execution, both arms were broken, one eye gouged out, one shoulder dislocated, one...