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Hanging Until 1858 , the procedure of hanging was not regulated by any law or decree. How the hanging was carried out depended solely on local circumstances and decisions made by local officials in charge. No special apparatus (gallows) was used for hangings. The hanging rope would most often be tied to a tree branch and the victim would either be hoisted up or placed on an improvised platform which would then be kicked out from under his feet. There were no professional or official hangmen. This work was usually done by policemen or by men who served as servants and/or bodyguards to local dignitaries in charge of executions. From 1858 to 1930  there were no hangings in Serbia, as the only legal method of execution in this period was shooting. When the Yugoslav Kingdom was created  in 1918 , its Western provinces (today's Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina) retained Austrian laws, under which death sentences were executed by hanging, performed by a professional  han

Blood oozed through the soil at sites of these graves, according to accounts assiduously collected by French Catholic priest, Father Patrick Desbois, who began his search by seeking to trace his grandfather's experience as a prisoner of war held in a concentration camp by the Nazis in Ukraine during the Second World War. He uncovered accounts of how Jews were killed by the Nazis 'for fun', or 'out of anger, boredom, drunkenness', or 'to rape the girls'. Yet the Soviet Union, for its own motives, obscured the full scale of the Holocaust on its own territory. Leading historian Mikhail Tyaglyy told MailOnline the number of Jewish victims in Ukraine is between 1.4million and 1.6million, significantly higher than the oft-quoted figure of around one million. The priest's search took him to four sites around Rava Ruska, close to the Ukrainian border with Poland, where 15,000 Jews were slain, and also the site of a Nazi camp where his grandfather Claudius Desboi

WARNING! Graphic Content Below Are Frank Discussion Of Rape, Execution. Not Meant For The Weak. 'Blood oozed through the soil at grave sites. You could see the pits move, some of them were still alive': The secrets of Ukraine's shameful 'Holocaust of Bullets' killing centre where 1.6million Jews were executed Seventy years on from the end of the Second World War the full, shocking scale of the Nazi-inspired Holocaust in Ukraine is finally being revealed - thanks to pioneering work by a French Catholic priest to research the truth of the industrial-scale killing. Around 2,000 mass graves of Jewish victims have been located where men, women and children were shot and buried by the Germans and their collaborators. But there maybe up to 6,000 more sites to uncover, with victims of this 'Holocaust of bullets' - so called because unlike in Poland and Germany where gas chambers were used as the means of slaughter - here most were summarily shot and buried nearb

REASONS NAZI STRIP PRISONER BEFORE EXECUTION The Nazis employed the dehumanizing practice of making people strip naked before being executed or subjected to gas chambers for several interconnected reasons. Firstly, it served to strip victims of their individuality and dignity. By forcing people to remove their clothing, the Nazis aimed to reduce them to mere numbers, degrading their humanity and making it easier for the perpetrators to view them as disposable entities rather than fellow human beings. Secondly, it facilitated the process of disposal and decontamination. Removing clothing reduced the risk of contamination from any potential chemicals or diseases, making it easier for the Nazis to manage the disposal of bodies and minimize the risks to the executioners themselves. Thirdly, it amplified the psychological torment of the victims. Stripping people of their clothing left them exposed, vulnerable, and humiliated, intensifying their emotional suffering before their eventu

Execution Songs For millennia, executions were a major public event in the western world. Hanging or shooting or stoning or burning or disemboweling someone in the public square served to warn people against transgressing the law, denying the faith, or just ticking off the ruler. Public executions were also opportunities for moral instruction as presiding ministers extracted death-pyre confessions from the soon-to-be-deceased and chastised onlookers about their immoralities. But public executions also provided great entertainment. Crowds of spectators thrilled to the horror, gore, and ghoulishness, while they drank, partied, and cheered – and perhaps reflected on the World to Come. By the mid-20th century most western nations had abolished the death penalty. Growing sensibility and sentimentality among the middle classes had led them to abhor the public spectacle and then the very idea of killing even killers. The United States has not, of course, abolished capital punishment, but by m

These Men Offered ‘Perfection in Cremation Technology’ to the Nazis. We Can Learn From the Records They Left A man in a stiff white collar sat down in his office in the provincial German city of Erfurt in the Spring of 1939, to draw up a plan for what he neatly named the first “mobile oil-heated cremation oven.” It was to be delivered to the nearby concentration camp of Buchenwald. But this engineer, Kurt Prüfer, carefully marked on his design “incineration chamber” rather than “cremation chamber,” for he completely understood the power of words. With a few strokes of his pen, his bland description disguised the red line between his previous work, serving the life and death of an ordinary community, and building the technology to fuel mass murder. It was a technocrats’ trick often employed as first German and then all of Europe’s “undesirables” were herded towards the “final solution” and “selected” to perish in the so-called “undressing rooms” and “saunas” of the gas chambers. Prüf

Ukrainian Jews who were forced to undress before they were massacred by Einsatzgruppe detachments.  This photo, originally in color, was part of a series taken by a German military photographer. Copies from this collection were later used as evidence in war crimes trials. Lubny, Soviet Union, October 16, 1941. — Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden Holocaust Social Archive Yesterday, a Russian airstrike hit the Holocaust memorial at Babyn Yar in Ukraine. The memorial is built upon the site of one of the largest massacres of WWII. "On September 29–30, 1941, SS and German police units and their auxiliaries, under the guidance of members of Einsatzgruppe C, murdered a significant number of the Jewish population who remained in Kyiv. The massacre occurred at a ravine called Babyn Yar (sometimes spelled “Babi Yar” in English). At the time, the ravine was located just outside the city.  The victims were summoned to the site, forced to undress, and then compelled to enter the ravine. S

Baying mob watch as man 'tears off thief's p£n!s with teeth' in 'jungle justice' WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: The man, in the Bakassi Peninsula, suffered 'jungle justice', extrajudicial killings where an alleged criminal is publicly beaten and then executed by vigilantes An alleged petty thief appeared to have his penis bitten off by another man in front of a baying mob screaming encouragement in a chilling example of "jungle justice". A video of the incident has started doing the rounds online and was shared on Twitter by the Marxist Party of Nigeria, which says the incident took place in the Bakassi Peninsula, Nigeria. Reports online suggest the man was a petty thief who stole something worth "less than a dollar". In the stomach-churning clip, one of the crowd suddenly kneels next to the already-naked man and literally bites off his penis. Others in the sickening blood-thirsty mob then stone him as he writhes helpless on the

See Man In Excrutiating Pain After His P£nis Was Cut Off In Broad Daylight  A man has been left with deep pain after his p*nis was cut off in broad daylight by an unknown person. The man whose pe.nis was cut off could be seen soaked in blood and excrutiating pains. According to the news source whot post it online claim, a man’s p*nis was on Tuesday afternoon cut off by an unidentified person. The incident happened at the Duport Road Community in Liberia. The victim who was in shock is said to be in his early 30s, was discovered screaming in a pool of blood along the main motor road. Related Post Suspected Thief Killed And Hanged . An unidentified man suspected to be a thief, was beaten to death and tied to a tree on the Tema-Afienya road Friday. The naked body of the middle-aged man, revealed bruises, raising suspicion that he was heavily dragged on the ground before being tied to the tree. He had his penis tied with a wire from a mini-advert billboard, while his knees were tied aga

The Water Cure A picture of a “water detail,” reportedly taken in May, 1901, in Sual, the Philippines. “It is a terrible torture,” one soldier wrote.ATTRIBUTED TO CORPORAL GEORGE J. VENNAGE/OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RARE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS LIBRARY Many Americans were puzzled by the news, in 1902, that United States soldiers were torturing Filipinos with water. The United States, throughout its emergence as a world power, had spoken the language of liberation, rescue, and freedom. This was the language that, when coupled with expanding military and commercial ambitions, had helped launch two very different wars. The first had been in 1898, against Spain, whose remaining empire was crumbling in the face of popular revolts in two of its colonies, Cuba and the Philippines. The brief campaign was pitched to the American public in terms of freedom and national honor (the U.S.S. Maine had blown up mysteriously in Havana Harbor), rather than of sugar and naval bases, and resulted in a for

US soldiers pose with the bodies of Moro insurgents, Philippines, 1906. On March 7, 1906, US troops under the command of Major General Leonard Wood massacred as many as 1,000 Filipino Muslims, known as Moros, who were taking refuge at Bud Dajo, a volcanic crater on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines. The First Battle of Bud Dajo, also known as the Bud Dajo Massacre, was a counter-insurgency action fought by the United States Army against Moros in March 1906, during the Moro Rebellion phase of the Philippine–American War. After the United States revoked the Bates Treaty in March 1904, the Moros renewed their resistance to American authority. This took the form of sporadic violence and refusal to pay taxes. The Governor of Moro Province, Major General Leonard Wood, had been unsuccessful in efforts to pacify the insurgents in Jolo Island. Consequently, Moro attacks became more frequent, and the insurgents came to believe that the Americans were too weak to stop them. In respon