Willi Herold Emsland Executioner, (Emsland is a county in the western German state of Lower Saxony, named after the Ems River that flows through the county)
Herold was born in Lunzenau, Saxony on September 11, 1925. The son of a roofer, he received compulsory education and attended a technical school in Chemnitz, where he learned to sweep chimneys.
In 1936, Herold was expelled from the German Youth League because he was unwilling to undergo daily training. (The German Youth League is an affiliate of the Hitler Youth League for boys aged 10 to 14. The organization preaches allegiance to Hitler and the Nazi regime in the face of its younger members, and supports youth sports activities to enhance their masculinity, physical strength , dynamism, and militaristic ideas.)
He was then called up by the National Labour Corps to participate in the construction of the Atlantic Wall in France until September 9, 1943. (The National Service Corps was an important social and educational organization in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. Beginning in June 1935, every German young man was required to perform six months of labor obligations before serving in the army at the age of 18. No. After the outbreak of World War II, the applicable population of this labor service was expanded to young women.) (The Atlantic Wall, also known as the Atlantic Wall or the Atlantic Great Wall, was a military installation used by Nazi Germany to defend the Western Front during World War II. The northern coast of Norway to the borders of France and Spain is 2,700 kilometers long. It was mainly used to prevent Allied forces from landing on the European continent. It was built by the Toth Organization, Frieze Toth and Albert Speer, and later by Rommé It was reinforced by Hitler and advocated by Propaganda Minister Goebbels, calling it the Unfallen Line of Defense.)
On 30.09.43 he was drafted into the army and after basic training in the paratrooper regiment in Tangermünde he was sent to Italy in Nettuno and Monte Cassino. ), during which he was awarded an Iron Cross First Class and promoted to corporal for destroying two British tanks on the beach of Salerno.
In March 1945, Herold returned to the mainland with his troops. He was separated from his unit during a chaotic German retreat, and near Gronau and Bad Bentheim he came across an abandoned car with the luggage of a Luftwaffe captain in it. , Herold took the uniform. He gathered a few rout soldiers and began posing as officers.
On April 11, 1945, the Herold gang fled to the Aschendorfermoor prison camp (prison camp) where some German deserters were detained. This prison camp was one of a series of camps in Emslandlager, (Emslandlager was a series of 15 wasteland labor, punishment. Sex and Prisoner of War Camp, operating from 1933 to 1945, in the region of Emsland and Bentheim, Lower Saxony, Germany.)
Herold told the camp manager that he was under the direct command of the Führer and took over the management, and then the brothers started murdering prisoners who didn't have any violations. Over the next eight days, the gang murdered over a hundred prisoners.
Most of the surviving prisoners escaped after the air raid. The Herold gang then fled and committed crimes along the way. A peasant was hanged in East Frisia for flying a white flag. Five more Dutchmen were subsequently murdered in the name of espionage.
As the Allies advanced, the Herold gang traveled to Aurich, where they were arrested by the local German commander. Herold confessed to what he had done, and he was transferred to Norden for questioning by the Nazi navy, whereupon, in the final chaos of the war, he was wrongly released.
After getting out, Herold fled to Wilhelmshaven and began to make a living by cleaning chimneys by his profession. On May 23, 1945, he was arrested by the Royal Navy for stealing bread, and he was finally identified as a wanted war criminal. On February 1, 1946, the Herold gang was taken by the British army to the Aschendorfermoor prison camp to dig up corpses, and 195 were dug up. In August '46, 13 members of the Herold gang were tried in Oldenburg where they were found responsible for the murder of 125 people. On August 29, seven people including Herold were sentenced to death, and five others were found not guilty.
On November 14, in Wolfenbüttel prison, Herold and others were guillotined by an executioner named Friedrich Hehr.
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