Jenny Wanda Barkmann
publicly hanged as a war criminal at the age of 24
(together with 4 other young women and 6 men)It happened the 4th of July 1946 on the hill called Biskupia Gorka (Stolzenberg)
near Danzig
There had been erected one triple gallows and 4 double gallows
for the execution of the 6 men and 5 womenA huge crowd attended the executions
The prisoners were simply pushed off the platforms of the trucks.
As they dropped only a short distance , this was a socalled "slow hanging" where the condemned died of strangulation .
They probably remained conscious for many long minutes and they finally died after 15 minutes while their bodies struggled and quivered at the end of the rope .
Jenny Berkmann at the enquiry shortly after her arrest in May 1945 at the railway station Wrzeszcz near Danzig
Jenny Wanda Barkmann talking with her lawyersShe was accused of warcrimes committed in the Concentration Camp Stutthoff (Danzig)
She was an ice-cold murderess and when the verdict fell she just said :
"Life is a pleasure and usually pleasures are only short."
"Guilty !"
What a humiliating way to die !
Hanged as a war criminal in front of thousands of people
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