Another Fascinating Fact.

Bbbananas | 18:25 Tue 15th Nov 2011 | ChatterBank

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Right up until 1940 the guillotine was still being used in France to execute resistance fighters during the german occupation.

The guillotine? That's a dreadful thought.

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Khandro

In 1943 both Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans, along with fellow student, Christoph Probst, were executed by guillotine by the gestapo for distributing leaflets for 'The White Rose' resistance group.
http://www.spartacus.....co.uk/GERschollS.htm
Please, if you can, take a moment to read this.

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You should read The Last Train in Winter khando - compelling but gruesome and very sad reading.

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I might have got that title slightly wrong - I'll go check.

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Sorry khando - A Train in Winter by Caroline Moorhead. Fascinating though upsetting reading x

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