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Article: Nazi death sentences carried out by U.S. Army hangman: Talking with
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Christopher Resnek, Joshua; Szechenyi
Cleveland Jewish News
11-01-1996
Nazi death sentences carried out by U.S. Army hangman: Talking with the. man who dropped the noose around Hitler's cabinet members.
JOSHUA RESNEK and CHRISTOPHER SZECHENYI
Special to the CJN
--Boston
Fifty years ago, the Nazis' Third Reich came to an end in the death chamber at Landsberg Prison in occupied Germany. That is when a young floor sander from Revere, Mass., 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 Oct. 16, 1946, Joe Malta, then 28, the U.S. ...