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Execution of torturers from KL Stutthof in Gdansk, July 4, 1946

Execution of torturers from KL Stutthof in Gdansk, July 4, 1946.

She was only 22 and already capable of horrible shit. Her hands were tied in front of her, and it was cold, so they put her jacket over her shoulders so she wouldn’t be too cold while she waited to be executed. People are complicated. We’re capable of brutality and mercy at the same time. 

I read an interesting book, memoir, called "The Last Face You'll Ever See" about executioner's on death row in a jail in Mississippi, and it's interesting how they show mercy, and get close to the condemned before and up to their execution. It's non fiction. 

They offered them simple comforts, like last meals, choice of clothes, even sedation (10mg of intramuscular, which is an injection, of valiumm) and they'd stay up all night talking to them. They knew what they were doing to them, that it's brutal, painful, (in the book, they used the gas chamber) and did show basic kindness before their deaths.

Normally, they would just have them stand on the tailgate of the truck and then drive the truck off. Depending on the height of the prisoner, that would be a short drop hanging. But she’s not very tall and not very heavy, and I suspect the rope was not long enough. 

So they basically lifted her up a few feet and then as the trucks drove off (they hanged several people simultaneously) they gave her a toss. 

I am not a doctor or pathologist but in the other photo, it seems pretty clear that her neck is broken. So perhaps they gave her a small mercy by converting the short drop to long drop.

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