GOERING AND RIBBENTROP FIRST TO DIE
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Received Wednesday, 1.15 p.m. LONDON, October 16. The executions of the German war criminals began at Nuremberg at one minute past ifiidnight local time (11 p.iii. G.M.T.) on a double scaffhld, says the Daily MaiFs Nuremberg correspondent. Goering and Ribbentrop were the first to die and then Kaltenbrunxier, Keitel, Kosenberg, Frank, Streicher, Sauckel, Jodl and Seyss Intjuart. The executioner was Sergeant John Woods, of the United States Army, with two assistafits. The only others at the etfeeutions were members of the Allied Four Power Commission, prison officials, chaplains arid ari Americ&ri cameramam
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 October 1946, Page 5
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