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    Franz Schmidt (1555–1634), also known as Meister Franz or Frantz Schmidt, was an executioner in Hof from 1573 to April 1578, and from 1 May 1578 till the...
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  • Franz Schmidt may refer to: Franz Schmidt (composer) Franz Schmidt (executioner) Franz Schmidt (footballer) Franz Schmidt (serial killer) Franz Schmitt...
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  • have acted as official executioners. In 1870 the Republic of France abolished all local executioners and named the executioner of Algiers, Antoine Rasseneux...
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    & Humblot. pp. 231–234. (full text online). O Siochru, Micheal God's Executioner, p. 162 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine...
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    Rode Kristjan Sarv as Rinus Andero Ermel as Freisinck Franz Malmsten as Kilian Henessi Schmidt as Hedwig Hendrik Toompere Jr. as Casendrope Jaan Pehk...
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  • guilty of infanticide were beheaded here. In 1580 Nuremberg, the executioner Franz Schmidt (who left a diary over his professional career from 1573 to 1617)...
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    House of Habsburg-Lorraine, Maximilian was the younger brother of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. Before becoming Emperor of Mexico, he was commander-in-chief...
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    government as a place of execution from 13 December 1945 until 1949, British executioner Albert Pierrepoint executed 156 Nazi war criminals during this period...
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    Andreas Schmidt (24 May 1912 - spring 1948) was a Transylvanian-Saxon politician, ethnic group leader, and later a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS). He...
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  • Hugo novel Notre Dame, romantic opera in two acts by Franz Schmidt, text after Victor Hugo by Schmidt and Leopold Wilk, composed in 1902–1904 and first performed...
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  • scandals, gunshot to chest Vasily Blokhin (1955), Soviet general and NKVD executioner Adele Blood (1936), American actress, gunshot Clara Bloodgood (1907)...
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    significant high altar memorial to Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch executioner's house (resident executioner first documented in 1619) Stadtschreiberhaus, former home...
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    operated. Johannes Bückler's oldest known ancestor was Sebastian Bickler, executioner and master tanner of Kirchberg and Koppenstein, who was engaged in the...
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  • Silvestri Joel Higgins Higgins Based on the 1970 film The Traveling Executioner. Finding Nemo 2007 Disney musical Robert Lopez Kristen Anderson-Lopez...
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  • Aachen. 1 September – Franz Ramesohl and Franz Schmidt open a milk separator-producing workshop under the name of Ramesohl & Schmidt oHG in Oelde. The workshop...
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  • The Trial (2014 opera) (category Operas based on works by Franz Kafka)
    a libretto by Christopher Hampton, based on the 1925 eponymous novel by Franz Kafka. The opera was a joint commission between Music Theatre Wales, the...
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  • February 1986 Germany. Brother of Siert Bruins Franz Bürkl Deputy commander and infamous executioner at Pawiak Prison, Warsaw, Poland. Executed by Polish...
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    German war criminals, including SS officer Kurt Franz, and the commandant of Treblinka extermination camp, Franz Stangl. His incriminating evidence against...
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  • ISBN 978-1-137-08503-0. Schmidt, Franz (2015-02-03). A Hangman's Diary: The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573?1617...
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    the disposal of the SS paramilitary death squads aided by Selbstschutz executioners. By the end of 1939 already, they summarily murdered around 50,000 Poles...
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  • Schmidt, Liane Croon [de], Gunnar Möller Musical The Wild Duck Rudolf Noelte Dieter Borsche, Werner Hinz, Sabine Sinjen Drama The Winslow Boy Franz Peter...
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  • Tommy Lee Jones won for The Executioner's Song (1983)....
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    were carried out on 13 December 1945 by hanging at Hamelin Prison. The executioner was Albert Pierrepoint, aided by an assistant. A second Belsen trial...
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    im Dritten Reich, p. 265, cited in Daniel Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners (Vintage, 1997) Brecht 3:351. Wallmann, 72–97. Siemon-Netto, The Fabricated...
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    doctor's defence was that, although a doctor, he was a "legally appointed executioner". The SS left behind accounts of the number of prisoners and people coming...
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  • "It is important to emphasize that there can be no sympathy for a Nazi executioner". After all that Harnack had lost to the Nazis, the dispute hit him hard...
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    prisoners were hanged at Hamelin Prison in February 1948 by British executioner Albert Pierrepoint.: 252–257  A second trial began in Hamburg on 11 October...
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  • and actor. Lily Li, 74, Hong Kong actress (The Wandering Swordsman, Executioners from Shaolin, The Young Master), lung cancer. Hugh Mitchell, 89, Australian...
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    chi molla ("Who gives up is a rogue"); the first meaning of "boia" is "executioner, hangman", but in this context it means "scoundrel, rogue, villain, blackguard...
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  • and bringing them to justice, believing that he is judge, jury, and executioner on Earth, even if the criminals were convicted of lighter crimes. He...
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