Jenny-Wanda Barkmann
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Jenny-Wanda Barkmann was a war criminal and German overseer in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. She was tried and executed for crimes against humanity after the war.
Barkmann at the Stutthof trials in 1946
Public execution of Stutthof concentration camp personnel on 4 July 1946 by short-drop hanging. In the foreground, from left to right, are female camp overseers Barkmann, Ewa Paradies, Elisabeth Becker, Wanda Klaff, and Gerda Steinhoff.
Hanging
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Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature. Hanging has been a standard method of capital punishment since the Middle Ages, and has been the primary executio
Jenny-Wanda Barkmann
…at the camp. After she was found guilty she declared, "Life is indeed a pleasure, and pleasures are usually short." Barkmann was publicly executed by short-drop hanging along with ten other defendants from the trial on Biskupia Górka Hill near Gdańsk on 4 July 1946. Former Stutthof prisoners volunteered to conduct the…
Detail from a painting by Pisanello, 1436–1438
Mass execution using "pole-hanging" of Serbs by the Austro-Hungarian army in 1916
The execution of Henry Wirz in 1865; Wirz was given a standard drop, which did not break his neck