MASS EXECUTION OF NAZIS
22 MEN HANGED CAMP WAR CRIMES DRAMA ON GALLOWS MAN DELAYS DEATH (10 a.m.) LONDON, May 27. Three United States Army executioners hanged 22 Germans who were convicted by an American war crimes court of murdering or committing atrocities against prisoners in the Nazi Mauthausen concentration camp near Linz, Austria, reports the Associated Press correspondent in Landsberg.
Twenty-seven others will be hanged tomorrow. It was alleged during their trial that more than 700,000 victims of the Nazis were exterminated at Mauthausen during the war. The men all walked firmly to two scraflolds and while a man still dangled from the rope the noose dropped around the neck of the next man to die. One hanging went wrong. A muscular Austrian broke the bindings on his wrists. As he dropped he grabbed the rope above his head. Kicking violently he held off death for 18 minutes. The court on May 13. 1946, convicted 61 guards, doctors and administrators of Mauthausen camp. Fifty-eight were then sentenced to death but nine sentences were commuted to life imprisonment. Most were members of the SS. Thenages ranged from 22 to 63. The court held every camp official criminally and culpably responsible for the. death of the inmates by shooting, gassing, hanging and regulated starvation.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22341, 28 May 1947, Page 5
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213MASS EXECUTION OF NAZIS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22341, 28 May 1947, Page 5
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