THE “DAY AMERICAN SOLDIERS BECAME EXECUTIONERS” — HOW THE HORRORS OF DACHAU PUSHED U.S. TROOPS TO GUN DOWN SURRENDERED SS GUARDS IN A BURST OF REVENGE
April 29th, 1945.Outside Dachau concentration camp. American soldiers from the 45th “Thunderbird” Infantry Division advanced cautiously toward a camp near Munich after more than 500 straight days…
THE “GENERAL WHO TRIED TO KILL HITLER” — HOW HANS OSTER BETRAYED NAZI GERMANY TO STOP A WORLD WAR… THEN WAS STRIPPED NAKED AND HANGED FROM A MEAT HOOK
April 9th, 1945.Flossenbürg concentration camp, Bavaria. Dawn crept cold across the prison yard as SS guards prepared one of the most horrifying executions of the Third Reich’s final…
THE “WITCH OF BUCHENWALD” — HOW ILSE KOCH TURNED A NAZI DEATH CAMP INTO HER PERSONAL KINGDOM OF TORTURE… THEN HUNG HERSELF AFTER 22 YEARS IN PRISON
September 1st, 1967.Aichach Prison, Bavaria. Prison guards pushed open the steel door of Cell 1251 just after dawn. Inside, the woman once feared across one of Nazi…
THE “BEAUTIFUL BEAST OF AUSCHWITZ” — HOW IRMA GRESE USED HER BEAUTY TO HIDE A SADISTIC MONSTER… THEN WALKED CALMLY TO THE GALLOWS AT JUST 22 YEARS OLD
April 17th, 1945.Bergen-Belsen, Germany. British soldiers stepped through the gates of a camp overflowing with corpses. The smell of death hung in the air. Starving prisoners wandered…
THE “NAZI POLICE CHIEF WHO ERASED AN ENTIRE VILLAGE” — HOW KURT DALUGE HELPED BUILD HITLER’S MURDER MACHINE… THEN SWUNG FROM A PRAGUE GALLOWS
October 24th, 1946.Prague, Czechoslovakia. A freezing autumn wind swept through the courtyard of Pankrác Prison as guards prepared a wooden gallows before sunrise. The man walking toward…
THE “GENERAL WHO TURNED NANKING INTO A GRAVEYARD” — HOW HISAO TANI OVERSAW ONE OF HISTORY’S WORST MASSACRES… THEN SHOOK WITH FEAR ON THE ROAD TO HIS EXECUTION
April 26th, 1947.Nanjing, China. Inside a freezing prison cell, a 64-year-old Japanese general sat completely alone. He picked up a tiny pair of scissors. Carefully clipped his…
THE “JAPANESE OFFICER WHO TURNED KILLING INTO A SPORT” — HOW GUNKICHI TANAKA HELPED TURN NANKING INTO A SLAUGHTERHOUSE… THEN COLLAPSED BEFORE A CHINESE FIRING SQUAD
January 28th, 1948.Yuhuatai, Nanjing. A cold wind swept across the execution ground as three former Japanese officers were marched through the dirt under armed guard. One of…
THE “GENERAL WHO HELPED UNLEASH THE RAPE OF NANKING” — HOW AKIRA MUTO OVERSAW TWO OF ASIA’S DEADLIEST MASSACRES… THEN CLIMBED 13 STEPS TO THE GALLOWS IN TOKYO
December 23rd, 1948.Sugamo Prison, Tokyo. Just after midnight, a 56-year-old Japanese general was led from his prison cell by American military police. He had been informed only 15…
THE “DOCTOR WHO BEGGED FOR MORE TIME TO KILL” — HOW CLAUS SCHILLING INFECTED HUNDREDS OF PRISONERS WITH MALARIA… THEN TRIED TO SAVE HIS RESEARCH FROM THE GALLOWS
May 28th, 1946.Landsberg Prison, Bavaria. A 74-year-old German doctor stands on the gallows. His hands are tied behind his back. A black hood waits in the executioner’s…
DIE „HITLERJUGEND-KINDER, DIE DIE AMERIKANER ERSCHOSSEN“ — WIE DAS DRITTE REICH TEENAGER IN KILLER VERWANDELTE… UND SIE DANN ZUM STERBEN ZURÜCKLIESS
Juni 1945.Braunschweig.Ein Sandsteinbruch am Stadtrand. Der Krieg in Europa ist seit vier Wochen vorbei. Deutschland hat kapituliert. Doch für Heinz Petri endet der Krieg erst jetzt. Er…