Tag: guillotine
How the Condemned Were Prepared for the Guillotine
With over a million and a half views on my previous video about the guillotine in the early 1900s, I decided to take a more…
Guillotine Execution of Eugene Weidmann
Very little is known about Eugene (Eugen) Weidmann’s childhood. He spent his childhood in Frankfurt, Germany until the start of World War I. He was…
Absolutely Everything You Want to Know About France’s Guillotine
Does the guillotine fascinate or horrify you? What was it like to witness a guillotine execution, and when was the last public guillotine execution in…
1909 First Hand Account of the Guillotine and Execution of Danvers
This original report, made by a reporter who witnessed the guillotine execution of Danvers, is the first mention I have found on the bloodiness and…
Four Men Guillotined in Eight Minutes
There is no denying that the guillotine made fast work of executions and that Deibler and his assistants made the executions run smoothly, with little…
Guillotine Parties and Celebrations
Parties and celebrations often began before the execution of a criminal in France, but sometimes, especially when the criminal was a murderer, the parties went…
