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Article: The hangman who ended the Reich
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- Jerusalem Post
- Article date:
- October 14, 1996
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Joshua Resnek and Christopher Szwcheny
Jerusalem Post
10-14-1996
FIFTY years ago, the Third Reich finally came to an end. At Landsberg Prison in occupied Germany, a young floor sander from Revere, Massachusetts, executed Hitler's cabinet members in two hours on two scaffolds. The executions were held in private. Even photographs taken of the executed men, who were secretly cremated that night, have never been released.
On October 16, 1946, Joe Malta, then 28, the US Army hangman in Europe, carried out the death sentences handed down by the Nuremberg Tribunal on Hitler's innermost clique for their crimes against humanity. "I put the black hoods over their heads. I tightened the nooses ...
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