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08-06-2009, 02:29 AM
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WWII-Era Public Hangings: Minsk, Kharkiv, and the Stutthof Trials
This set mixes several documented hangings. One image shows the public hanging of Masha Bruskina, a 17-year-old resistance nurse, with Kiril Trus and 16-year-old Volodia Shcherbatsevich in Minsk on October 26, 1941, among the first public executions after the German invasion of the USSR; the placard read 'We are partisans and have shot at German soldiers.' Another shows Mariya Kislyak, an 18-year-old Ukrainian underground member hanged with two comrades outside Kharkiv on June 18, 1943, later named a Hero of the Soviet Union. A third, often mislabelled, shows the hanging of convicted Stutthof camp personnel, including five female SS overseers, at Biskupia Gorka in Gdansk on July 4, 1946 — a post-war judicial execution, not a wartime killing. |
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08-06-2009, 03:25 AM
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Re: WWII-Era Public Hangings: Minsk, Kharkiv, and the Stutthof Trials
Your grandma was an amazing woman to survive that. My uncle was in a POW camp over there and the only thing he talked about was how they would hang people on meat hooks until they died. He never got over that. |