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The Bastard Who Executed The Top Nazis

Behind the Bastards

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The Hanging of the Greatest Collection of War Criminals

Some articles suggest that the choice of this drunken dirty hobo man as executioner was a deliberate move by allied authorities. Like basically saying like, like we respect you pieces of shit so little that this is the guy we're hiring to kill you. And I'm not sure I don't I think that's more sort of like wishful thinking than actual probably realistic. They probably just didn't have anybody else. But it is worth noting that the choosing of hanging as a method of execution was picked to send a direct message to men like Hermann Garing and Phil Marshall Kitell.

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