The British Hangman Who Executed Belsen's Most Sadistic Nazis
Albert Pierrepoint, whose task included executing the 'Beast of Belsen' and the 'blonde who beat inmates to death,' wrote after the Holocaust that the death penalty solves nothing
Ofer Aderet
Ofer Aderet
In December 1945, Albert Pierrepoint was given an unusual mission: to execute 13 Nazi war criminals in one day. Along with the commander of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, he also executed the "young 21-year-old blonde who used to carry a riding crop to beat inmates to death," as well as the doctor who decided who would go to the gas chambers and who be put to work. Parts of his memoir is now available in Hebrew.
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