Word: goebler
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...stepped top-hatted, white-gloved Executioner Goebler. If he had been working anywhere else in Germany he would have used a battle ax but in the State of Saxony, seat of the German Supreme Court, a French-type guillotine is the customary instrument of death. Putting his hand on the prisoner's arm, Executioner Goebler steered van der Lubbe to the guillotine, strapped him down, pressed a button releasing the great knife and stood back as it fell. Into a basket full of absorbent sawdust rolled the head of van der Lubbe...
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