The Murder of Five Captured RAF Officers. Warning: Graphic Images

I splitted my posts, otherwise one post would be to large.

Here are some photos of the airmen alive and of the exhumation.
Some informations about the airmen can be read on page 2 of this thread.

 

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Here is another interesting document.
The day the airmen were murdered the wing commander of the 214 squadroon wrote to Mrs. Hall that she should not be in worries about her husband cause the whole crew bailed out about liberated territory. Unfortunately John Wynne made some navigation mistakes which led to the to early bailing out of the crew over german territory.

Now I got to bed.
Can maybe someone help me with the spoilers above?

 

Good move Adam. I had my doubts about the need to post the exhumation images but viewing the consistent gun-shot wounds to the head makes it even more clear just how cold-blooded the killings were.

I sincerely hope that no descendants or family of the victims are troubled by anything that they see here and are comforted by the fact that the men are not forgotten.

 

I thoroughly agree with those sentiments.

 

Hi, Pollux.
Hope you don't mind, but I converted the exhumation shots to thumbnails.


Absolutely no problem...i tried to spoiler the pixs but somehow didn´t manage it.

This is the one, SA leader Weiß, who lead the mob.
He committed suicide in the beginning of may 45.

 

Hi, Pollux.
Hope you don't mind, but I converted the exhumation shots to thumbnails.
I absolutely agree that they are legitimate to show as part of the horrible story of war & it's associated realities, but in the thumbnail format those that don't wish to view can still follow these men's stories with something of a veil drawn over the grim pictorial details.

Amazing thread, mate. Keep up the good work.
Personally, I think you honour these blokes by telling their story so completely.

~A

As a family member of one of the crew, I have to say I also agree and think that all materials should be made available, however I do think that using a link is a more appropriate method when it comes to the more distressing types of image.
Although I was fortunate to not loose my Grandfather I do obviously empathise with the other family members of the crew and I'm sure that any of the others researching their loved one's final moments may not want to see these images, as such I think that should be respected.

M@

 

re:SA leader Weiß

His son looks old enough to perhaps
remember some of these events...

I wonder where he lives today

 

re:SA leader Weiß

His son looks old enough to perhaps
remember some of these events...

I wonder where he lives today

Unfortunately it is said in Dillweißenstein that the place where Weiß committed suicide was at the graves of his son and wife who died in the airraid of 23th february 1945. But the Weiß family is quite large in Dillweißenstein. Next time I´m there I will try to get more information. Cause he died before the investigation started I only have a picture and a death certificate of him.

That is the certificate...it is written in it that his deathplace was the cemetary.

 

Doesn't it impy at the bottom that he was still married to Rosine Margarethe and that she was still living in the Hirsauerstrasse ?

 

But I have an eyewhitness statement of that night from a man who lived together with Weiß and who told about his behaviour of that night.
I hope you can read it.

 

Doesn't it impy at the bottom that he was still married to Rosine Margarethe and that she was still living in the Hirsauerstrasse ?

I don´t know exactly. It could be a form of "Beamtendeutsch", but it is written in the past that he was married to Rosine Weiß.
But maybe you are right cause behind the parents name it is remarked that they are dead. Thanks for your remark.

 

Because we have with M@ a relative of Norman Bradley I post the pages of the trial in which Norman Bradley made his statement.

The statement Norman Bradley made before the trial can be read here on page 7.

 

Is it possible to read?

 

Yes. Not a problem reading it.

 

These are the 4 deathwarrants of the death row inmates. The executioner was always the famous Albert Pierrepoint.