A little of both, probably. “If we pulled him now, we’d have to admit we made a mistake, and also then we’d have to find a new executioner. What does it matter? They’re going to be dead either way.”
And the Nuremberg trials were shockingly rife with benefit of the doubt. Some real bastards slipped out by pointing fingers, or were in prison for long enough that the government commuted their sentences.
I mean, eventually, he can improve by repetition if nothing else. I mean, wasn’t he objectively one of the most experienced executioners in modern history?
45 Executions? Sounds like the Army not only didn’t care, but was complicit.
A little of both, probably. “If we pulled him now, we’d have to admit we made a mistake, and also then we’d have to find a new executioner. What does it matter? They’re going to be dead either way.”
And the Nuremberg trials were shockingly rife with benefit of the doubt. Some real bastards slipped out by pointing fingers, or were in prison for long enough that the government commuted their sentences.
Nobody who died at Nuremberg was a maybe.
I mean, eventually, he can improve by repetition if nothing else. I mean, wasn’t he objectively one of the most experienced executioners in modern history?
For hangings maybe, but the Germans themselves might like a word about their record of executions during WWII.
Finding a hangman was not easy in 1945 US army. This guy was a bullshit artist failing upwards. “Oh yeah I can totally tie hangman’s knot”
Nobody wanted to have to find someone else.