[northernlights]

If you were an underground partisan and you were caught by the germans the best that you could hope for is a very quick death. These partisans were caught in the area of Minsk.

[gatagato]

If you were an SS or any german soldier whatsoever and you were caught by some underground partisans the best that you could hope for was a very quick death, as well.
War is war, we all look like savages, in war, the worst part of you comes out, in war.
The worst part of the worst creature ever existed on this planet.
The story of these pics:

Jews in Minsk were among the first in Eastern Europe to organize resistance against Nazi rule. In August 1941, less than two months after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, activists within the newly formed ghetto established an underground group. Its members forged documents, set up a radio receiver, and aided the emerging Soviet resistance in the area.

One ghetto inmate who joined the Soviet partisans was Masha Bruskina, a 17 year-old Jewish woman who had escaped to the “Aryan” side of the city. As a member of a resistance group led by Kirill Trus and Volodya Sherbateyvich, she worked at a hospital, helping wounded Soviet prisoners of war escape to the forests by smuggling in civilian clothing, medicine, and a camera to make false identity papers.

Informed of these activities, German authorities arrested some members of the group in mid-October 1941. Bruskina was brutally beaten and tortured in prison, yet she revealed nothing to her captors. In a note smuggled to her mother, she wrote, “I am tormented by the thought that I have caused you great worry. Don’t worry. Nothing bad has happened to me. I swear to you that you will have no further unpleasantness because of me.”

Despite these assurances, Bruskina was well aware of the fate that German authorities had planned for her. In a note to a friend, she remarked, “In any case, there is no chance I’ll die of starvation.”

On October 26, 1941, the Germans staged a public execution of the captured Minsk partisans. With a placard announcing that “We are partisans and have shot at German soldiers” hanging around her neck, Bruskina, along with Kirill Trus and 16 year-old Volodya Sherbateyvich, was paraded through the city streets and publicly hanged. Their bodies were left on the scaffold for three days as a warning to the populace.

After the war, Soviet and Belorussian authorities officially recognized Bruskina’s two non-Jewish comrades, yet her identity was listed as unknown. To this day, her name and Jewish identity are still denied in her homeland, despite the overwhelming evidence provided by her relatives, friends, and scholars.

Volodya Sherbateyvich is the one to the right, Masha Bruskina to the left, in the pic in the op.









Those women and that man had much more balls than i do.
http://www.ushmm.org/research/center...?content=minsk
http://www.executedtoday.com/2009/10...ich-partisans/

[Vedderman]

Masha died pretty bravely for a 17 year old girl. She hardly even looks afraid in those photos until she's actually strangling.

I have a series of articles somewhere in my files by Lev Arkadiev and Ada Dikhtiar entitled ""The Unknown Girl: A Documentary Story" where they interviewed several witnesses to this particular execution. I was always surprised that several of the witnesses remembered the event so vividly, since the interviews were conducted over thirty years later.

Anyway, the two witnesses they interviewed said that Masha kept turning her back to the crowd every time the Germans tried to make her face forward. They both commented that she was quite resolute about not wanting the people to see her dying. Eventually the soldiers got tired of her resistance, forced her to face forward, and kicked the support out. Unfortunately, the witnesses also said that Masha died really hard once she was actually hanging. They reported that she fought and struggled fiercely in the noose, far longer than her compatriots did. And, despite her fierce resolve, lost control of both her bladder and bowels and soiled herself badly in front of the entire crowd of onlookers.

No hanging is ever going to be pleasant, but it is unfortunate that this girl, so strong and resolute despite her tender age, died such a painful and humiliating death in front of so many.

[butterfly]

[Xfactor]

It's odd how some people smile right before death.

[icheerthebull]

Originally Posted by Xfactor ↗

It's odd how some people smile right before death.

I think its a act of defiance. One of the most inspiring images I have seen are of Stjepan Filipovic just before he was hung by the fascists

[Spiffyfable]

I think the Nazis just got off on hanging people.

[LadyCPlum]

They hanged 4 female members of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando for smuggling in gunpowder after one of the crematoria was blown up by the underground. Before she died, Roza Robota, one of the saboteurs, yelled out "VENGEANCE!" to everyone being forced to watch.

[LadyCPlum]

Originally Posted by icheerthebull ↗

I think its a act of defiance. One of the most inspiring images I have seen are of Stjepan Filipovic just before he was hung by the fascists

Smrt fašizmu, sloboda narodu!
Death to fascism, freedom to the people!

[Rusty666]