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I know a lot about this subject so if I may, I will share it:

  1. Hitler decreed that the uniform execution method throughout German and the "Greater Reich" would be beheading by fallbeil (guillotine). He never specified a number to be constructed. The rest would be up to the RMJ...Reich Ministry of Justice.1
  2. An inventory of fallbeille was conducted. Some dated to Napoleanic times and were unusaable. Six, constructed by the precision engineering firm Jos Mannhardt, were all functional.3 They were the "standard" (and used in Bavaria) but in some landers, the richbeilRichtbeil (axe) and even the "Richschwert" (sword) still were used.5
  3. After the RMJ finished its inventory, 1211 prisons were identified as Central Execution Sites. Some needed new guillotines. Some of the six Mannhardts went to others.2
  4. A prominent Technical Institute in Berlin then was charged with designing a better guillotine. Today we call these "the Tegels" because initially some were built at Tegel Prison, Berlin.1
  5. Finally, the intial 12 execution sites expanded to many more.2 Many "Tegels" were built and many still exist today as do some of the Mannhardts... all historic artifacts but not recognized by the German Government. Some are displayed. Many are dismantled and in storage. The first (1854) which was used up to 1946, was found in storage at a prominent Munich museum. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ARE WELCOME...4

ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ARE WELCOME...

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I know a lot about this subject so if I may, I will share it:

  1. Hitler decreed that the uniform execution method throughout German and the "Greater Reich" would be beheading by fallbeil (guillotine). He never specified a number to be constructed. The rest would be up to the RMJ...Reich Ministry of Justice
  2. An inventory of fallbeille was conducted. Some dated to Napoleanic times and were unusaable. Six, constructed by the precision engineering firm Jos Mannhardt, were all functional. They were the "standard" (and used in Bavaria) but in some landers, the richbeil (axe) and even the "Richschwert" (sword) still were used.
  3. After the RMJ finished its inventory, 12 prisons were identified as Central Execution Sites. Some needed new guillotines. Some of the six Mannhardts went to others.
  4. A prominent Technical Institute in Berlin then was charged with designing a better guillotine. Today we call these "the Tegels" because initially some were built at Tegel Prison, Berlin.
  5. Finally, the intial 12 execution sites expanded to many more. Many "Tegels" were built and many still exist today as do some of the Mannhardts... all historic artifacts but not recognized by the German Government. Some are displayed. Many are dismantled and in storage. The first (1854) which was used up to 1946, was found in storage at a prominent Munich museum. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ARE WELCOME...

I know a lot about this subject so if I may, I will share it:

  1. Hitler decreed that the uniform execution method throughout German and the "Greater Reich" would be beheading by fallbeil (guillotine). He never specified a number to be constructed. The rest would be up to the RMJ...Reich Ministry of Justice.1
  2. An inventory of fallbeille was conducted. Some dated to Napoleanic times and were unusaable. Six, constructed by the precision engineering firm Jos Mannhardt, were all functional.3 They were the "standard" (and used in Bavaria) but in some landers, the Richtbeil (axe) and even the "Richschwert" (sword) still were used.5
  3. After the RMJ finished its inventory, 11 prisons were identified as Central Execution Sites. Some needed new guillotines. Some of the six Mannhardts went to others.2
  4. A prominent Technical Institute in Berlin then was charged with designing a better guillotine. Today we call these "the Tegels" because initially some were built at Tegel Prison, Berlin.1
  5. Finally, the intial 12 execution sites expanded to many more.2 Many "Tegels" were built and many still exist today as do some of the Mannhardts... all historic artifacts but not recognized by the German Government. Some are displayed. Many are dismantled and in storage. The first (1854) which was used up to 1946, was found in storage at a prominent Munich museum.4

ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ARE WELCOME...

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I know a lot about this subject so if I may, I will share it:

  1. Hitler decreed that the uniform execution method throughout German and the "Greater Reich" would be beheading by fallbeil (guillotine). He never specified a number to be constructed. The rest would be up to the RMJ...Reich Ministry of Justice
  2. An inventory of fallbeille was conducted. Some dated to Napoleanic times and were unusaable. Six, constructed by the precision engineering firm Jos Mannhardt, were all functional. They were the "standard" (and used in Bavaria) but in some landers, the richbeil (axe) and even the "Richschwert" (sword) still were used.
  3. After the RMJ finished its inventory, 12 prisons were identified as Central Execution Sites. Some needed new guillotines. Some of the six Mannhardts went to others.
  4. A prominent Technical Institute in Berlin then was charged with designing a better guillotine. Today we call these "the Tegels" because initially some were built at Tegel Prison, Berlin.
  5. Finally, the intial 12 execution sites expanded to many more. Many "Tegels" were built and many still exist today as do some of the Mannhardts... all historic artifacts but not recognized by the German Government. Some are displayed. Many are dismantled and in storage. The first (1854) which was used up to 1946, was found in storage at a prominent Munich museum. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ARE WELCOME...