Tom Jensen (@vikinglife)

Following the Second World War, a number of war crimes trials took place to bring the perpetrators of the “Holocaust” and the main aggressors of the Second World War to justice. The most high profile trials took place at Nuremberg, in which the remaining members of Hitler’s “Nazi” hierarchy were placed on trial. Hermann Goring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop and many key "Nazi" figures were in front of the judge, and after 11 men were sentenced to death for their involvement in World War Two. The executions that took place after the Nuremberg Trials were carried out by US Army Executioner, John C Woods. Woods has attracted a significant amount of criticism for the way her performed his job that day, and a number of the executions were very botched. For example, Wilhelm Keitel took around 28 minutes to be killed following the drop, and with Julius Streicher’s death, John C Woods disappeared behind the curtain and finished the job off himself. However Woods is a mysterious figure, and there is some debate as to his experience before working as an executioner for the Americans. John C Woods to get his job as an executioner lied about the experience he had. He claimed to have worked as an executioner in Texas and Oklahoma, and this was completely false, but the US Army officials did not check this, simply giving him the job. A large number of his executions were botched in different ways, but what sort of a man lies to be in a position to execute others? Does this make John C Woods a legal serial killer? Before the war, he was declared to be suffering with conditions too, showing he was a mysterious individual. - John Clarence Woods (June 5, 1911 – July 21, 1950) was a United States Army master sergeant who, with Joseph Malta, carried out the Nuremberg executions of ten former top leaders of the Third Reich on October 16, 1946, after they were sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials. Time magazine credited him with 347 executions to that date during a 15-year career. According to later research, a number of 60 to 70 over a period of two years is more credible. Born in Wichita, Kansas, Woods joined the US Navy on December 3, 1929, and went absent without leave within months. He was convicted at a general court martial and subsequently examined by a psychiatric board on April 23, 1930. He was diagnosed with “Constitutional Psychopathic Inferiority without Psychosis“, was found “poor service material” and discharged. Read more here: https://web.archive.org/web/20230107000851/https://vikinglifeblog.wordpress.com/2021/12/08/the-sadistic-executioner-of-nuremberg-john-c-woods/ #Nuremberg #Holocaust #RainbowAlliance #WarCrimes #USA #WWII #WW2 #Germany #Deutschland