THE “BURNING SS COMMANDER” — HOW THE BUTCHER OF MALMEDY WAS HUNTED DOWN AND INCINERATED IN HIS OWN HOUSE 32 YEARS AFTER WWII
July 14th, 1976.Traves, eastern France. Just after midnight on Bastille Day, flames explode through a remote wooden house near the Saône River. Inside, a 61-year-old man is…
THE “QUEEN OF MAJDANEK” — HOW AN ORDINARY GERMAN WOMAN HELPED SEND THOUSANDS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN TO THEIR DEATHS
October 26th, 1948.Lublin Prison, Poland. A 34-year-old woman walks slowly toward the gallows. No crowd waits outside. No reporters shout questions. No cameras flash. Only silence. Just…
SOPHIE SCHOLL — HOW A 21-YEAR-OLD STUDENT DEFIED HITLER WITH LEAFLETS… AND WALKED CALMLY TO THE GUILLOTINE 4 DAYS LATER
February 22nd, 1943.5:00 p.m.Stadelheim Prison, Munich, Nazi Germany. A 21-year-old university student walks slowly down a prison corridor toward a guillotine. She is wearing a white blouse and…
THE CHENOGNE MASSACRE — HOW AMERICAN SOLDIERS EXECUTED SURRENDERED GERMAN POWS IN REVENGE FOR MALMEDY
January 1st, 1945.A frozen field near the Belgian village of Chenogne. The snow is waist-deep. The temperature is below zero. And standing in that white, silent field…
THE “ANGEL OF RAVENSBRÜCK” — HOW A FEMALE NAZI DOCTOR TORTURED YOUNG WOMEN IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE… THEN WALKED FREE AFTER JUST 5 YEARS
May 15th, 1911.Cologne, Germany. A baby girl is born into an ordinary German family. Her parents have no idea they are raising one of the most terrifying female…
THE DACHAU REVENGE MASSACRE — HOW AMERICAN SOLDIERS EXECUTED SURRENDERED SS GUARDS AFTER DISCOVERING A CAMP OF HORROR
April 29th, 1945.Dachau concentration camp, Germany. American soldiers of the 45th Infantry Division move through the gates of Dachau. The war in Europe is almost over. Hitler…
THE EXECUTED CHILD SOLDIERS — HOW TEENAGE HITLER YOUTH BOYS FACED ALLIED FIRING SQUADS AFTER WORLD WAR II
June 6th, 1945.Braunschweig, Germany. A 16-year-old boy stands tied to a wooden stake in a sand pit. His hands are bound behind his back. A white cloth covers…
THE “BEAUTIFUL SPECTRE” OF STUTTHOF — HOW A 24-YEAR-OLD MODEL DREAMER BECAME A SADISTIC NAZI KILLER AND DIED HANGING BEFORE 200,000 PEOPLE
July 4th, 1946.Biskupia Górka Hill, Gdańsk, Poland. A 24-year-old woman stands trembling on the back of a military truck. Her hands are tied. A thick rope hangs…
THE “BEAUTIFUL BEAST OF AUSCHWITZ” — HOW A 26-YEAR-OLD HAIRDRESSER BECAME A SADISTIC SS KILLER AND ENDED ON THE GALLOWS
December 13th, 1945.9:34 a.m.Hameln Prison, Germany. A young woman walks slowly down a prison corridor she had already rehearsed the day before. British executioner Albert Pierrepoint had measured…
FRANCE’S BLOODY PURGE — HOW ITS OWN CITIZENS WERE EXECUTED AS TRAITORS WHILE THOUSANDS CHEERED THEIR DEATHS
September 2, 1944.Near Grenoble, in the shadow of the French Alps. Six young men are dragged through freezing rain toward wooden execution posts. Their hands are tied…