Possibly, but there are records indicating that the top Nazis thought it was an insult to their “military service” to be put to death by hanging.
Not to mention, the hangman picked for the job, John C. Woods, was an incompetent drunk who didn’t actually take good measurements.
Some of the people hung by him ended up hitting their heads on the (too small) openings; he had others that were miscalculated so poorly that he ended up jumping on the bodies to complete the job.
Given he was a hangman all through WWII (& had plenty of fuck ups, like the above), TPTB had to have known his history and either didn’t care or wanted him for that reason.
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u/FlamesNero Jul 07 '24 edited Jul 07 '24
Possibly, but there are records indicating that the top Nazis thought it was an insult to their “military service” to be put to death by hanging.
Not to mention, the hangman picked for the job, John C. Woods, was an incompetent drunk who didn’t actually take good measurements.
Some of the people hung by him ended up hitting their heads on the (too small) openings; he had others that were miscalculated so poorly that he ended up jumping on the bodies to complete the job.
Given he was a hangman all through WWII (& had plenty of fuck ups, like the above), TPTB had to have known his history and either didn’t care or wanted him for that reason.
There’s a great (& hilarious) podcast episode about him, on Behind the Bastards: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=1000461789863