US troops encounter a German soldier hanged by his comrades, 1945

US troops encounter a German soldier

hanged by his comrades, 1945

Throughout the last days of the Third Reich, it ruthlessly forced its desperate conscripts by threat of summary execution into service to slow the overwhelming Soviet army.

Borrowing a page from Gen. Ferdinand Schoerner's no-mercy demonstrative hangings of any "straggler" found

behind front lines without orders, Goebbels issued a radio proclamation to the trapped troops lof Berlin]: Any man found that not doing his duty will be hanged from a lamp post after a summary judgment. Moreover,

placards will be attached to the corpses stating: I have been hanged here because I am too cOwardly to defend the capital of the Reich. I have been hanged because I did not believe in the Fuhrer. I am a deserter, and for this reason, I shall not see this turning pont in history."

SS members are aware that they would be in for the worst of it after the war (and that their mandatory blood-type tattoos would make them easy to identify) were the ones sufficiently motivated to impose this policy.

One German in the city at the time recalled the horror of seeing "boys who were found hiding were hanged as traitors by the SS as a waning that, he who was not brave enough to fight had to die.' When trees were not available, people were strung up on lamp posts. They were hanging everywhere, military and civilian, men and women, and ordinary citizens who had been executed by a small group of

fanatics.

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