Chilling story of Hitler's Hangman: Sadistic Nazi nicknamed the 'Head Hunter' invented his own guill

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    'The name Johann Reichhart might not be one synonymous with Nazi Germany but his ruthless killing streak made him one of the most feared members of the regime.

    Germany's chief executioner claimed the lives of some 3,165 with the vast majority coming during World War II.

    Criminals, resistance fighters and dissenters made up the bulk of his victims, whose lives he ended with the simple plunge of his guillotine.'



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    One of my old customers was an airman who was downed over France. He was captured in civilian clothes being smuggled out of France by the resistance. He was labeled a war criminal. stripped of the Geneva Convention and sent to Buchenwald with 150 captured airmen. They spent months there out in the open before they were discovered by a luftwaffe officer who demanded their transfer to a POW camp. They would have all died of exposure otherwise.
     
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