THE HEADMAN’S AXE
EXECUTIONS IN GERMANY Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright BERLIN, February 15. (Received February 10, at 8 a.m.) Pink posters on advertising pillars announced that three more men were executed this morning in Ploetsense prison by the headman’s axe, making six within 48 hours, including Johannes Eggert (39), who was allegedly the leading Communist propagandist until 1935. The sentences were passed in. secret in the people's court.
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Evening Star, Issue 22574, 16 February 1937, Page 9
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67THE HEADMAN’S AXE Evening Star, Issue 22574, 16 February 1937, Page 9
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