The HORRIFIC Execution Of The Baroness Executed By Axe In Germany

During the Second World War, there were thousands of people who were executed inside of Nazi Germany. Many people who defied and resisted Hitler and his government were executed on devices such as the guillotine, however during his time in power there were some executions in Germany which were performed by axe. Execution by axe was a medieval method, but Baroness Benita von Falkenhayn was convicted of spying and she was accused of passing on military secrets about the future German invasion of Poland that began World War 2.
Benita von Falkenhayn was a wealthy Baroness, but she had an affair with a polish officer who utilised her to obtain these secrets, and Benita was performing spy work. However she was arrested, and a few years after Hitler was in power she was sentenced to death and was executed by axe inside of Plotzensee Prison. After her execution, Hitler banned execution by axe inside of Germany as he was fearful that people would view his regime and government as medieval and barbaric.
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[@nigeldeacon3271]

The German beheading axe was shorter and heavier than the English axe. This meant that it did not have to be lifted so far in order to achieve the force necessary to cut through the neck. This in turn made the stroke more accurate. People don't realise that the third Reich probably guillotined more people than the French Revolution.

[@peace-now]

More people were killed by the axe in England than Germany.

[@neilfoster814]

Correct! The Nazi fallbiel was incredibly busy, especially in Plotzensee prison, Berlin. Judge Roland Friesler was the biggest supplier of 'customers'.

[@GillAgainsIsland12]

I highly doubt that. Over 17,000 people were guillotined during the French Revolution.

[@nigeldeacon3271]

There is a forum called something like "Beheading in the third Reich". It runs to something in the region of 500 pages. On page 1, it gives a figure of 16,000 to 20,000 beheadings. This is possibly expanded on later in the forum if anybody cares to plough through it .

[@petebondurant58]

@@nigeldeacon3271 You are a magnificent gentleman, Nigel!

[@renee1961]

Good morning, and as ALWAYS, Thank You for these videos. Always Excellent.

[@renee1961]

I think being a Spy took A lot of Courage!! Rest In Peace to a Brave Woman.🥀🥀🥀🥀🙏🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

[@Promislandzion]

Lmao but whenever someone who served for the axis is tortured and kills you cucks celebrate. 😂😂

[@jonbeckleymorrisblues]

The cruelty of man against everything in his/her path is boundless. But, this Baroness used by the Polish officer that she was, nonetheless was incredibly brave to take the chance of dying by the sword to help the people of Poland.

[@Inglese001]

Yes she was brave. I salute anyone who stood up against the Nazis.

[@stilley1966]

She was not trying to help poland but she was keeping her polish bf, ie dick, happy

[@MolotovAustralia]

She was a patriot and wanted to do the right thing.

[@petebondurant58]

@@MolotovAustralia She did it for the penis.

[@markbrooks8623]

@@MolotovAustralia Wasn't it because she'd had an affair with a Polish secret agent? That sounds like a personal motivation.

[@renee1961]

Rest In Peace to All of the Innocent Victims, and Those That Fought for Them. 🥀🥀🥀🥀🙏🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️ Prayers for The Survivors 💔🙏💔🙏💔🙏💔🙏 that they found Peace.

[@Promislandzion]

Lmao but whenever someone who served for the axis is tortured and kills you cucks celebrate. 😂😂

[@petebondurant58]

She was not innocent. She literally betrayed her country for dick.

[@jensenwilliam5434]

Thank you sir!!

[@patrickporter6536]

Brutal AND shocking! Wow, two buzzwords in one sentence! And executed by axe! I feel faint.

[@GillAgainsIsland12]

As horrific as it may sound, beheading is probably the quickest and least painful way to go. Over in the blink of an eye.

[@masterpython]

Unless they use a blunt axe and it takes several hits. That happened a few times.

[@allangibson8494]

Beheaded people are conscious for 30 seconds after beheading…

[@mmiYTB]

Please fix the photos/labels... Out of the first three women photos since 1:29, Benita is only on the second one. The first one is Renate von Natzmer, the third one (and on thumbnail) is Irene von Jena (she got the life sentence) in the same case. I didn't go much further in the video as I read about Sosnowski operation before.

[@philmenzies2477]

It is obvious from the noses that those women are not all the same. C'mon Untold Past, up your game

[@roseogrady8785]

Thank You.

[@anti7928]

Spying is a dangerous business..

[@somethingsomething9008]

But buisness is good

[@007JHS]

Something interesting in this, which I checked elsewhere. Beneta first came under suspicion in 1932 before Hitler came to power... This implies that German plans to invade Poland were well underway before 1932 never mind sometime prior to 1939. "In the late 1920s, Falkenhayn became friends with the Polish intelligence agent Major Jerzy Sosnowski, whom she had met at the horse races, and became his lover. He made her socialise with employees at the Ministry of the Reichswehr to obtain secret documents concerning the preparations for a German Invasion of Poland. At least from 1932, her activities were monitored by the Abwehr intelligence agency..."

[@johnmcdonald9295]

Judea declared war on Germany in 1933

[@007JHS]

@@johnmcdonald9295 Judea?? Not the People's front? ... Seriously... I'll have to check that out if it is dinkum.

[@zahgurim7838]

Plans to invade Poland (and take back some lost territories) probably date back to 1918. It took some years till the time was right. Und nein, Judea did not declare war on Germany... 😂

[@randomobserver8168]

It also means the baroness was a spy and a traitor to Germany before it was a Nazi state, thus removing the moral cover of being anti-Nazi. Until 1933 that would make her just a traitor and a dupe for the Polish intelligence service. Of course there's still 7 intervening years that make up for that.

[@gratefulguy4130]

@@007JHS yeah there's also newspapers & statements going back to at least the 1850s of wanting to exterminate the German people. They describe basically the situation that exists in Germany today.. a slow roll.

[@1967davethewave]

I thought a couple of the pictures of Baroness Benita von Falkenhayn was actually a picture of Katherine Heigl. Pretty good likeness in a couple of the pictures imo.

[@trevorspottiswood985]

Man's cruelty and evil know no bounds.

[@alexbowman7582]

If the beheading device is sharp enough then there’s no guarantee unconsciousness is instant. One French scientist about to be guillotined asked his friend to watch and count how many times I blink, he blinked 17 times.

[@MarkoVukovic0]

Is this perhaps not just involuntary? One would pass out very quickly if the brain is deprived of oxygenated blood for mere seconds.

[@masterpython]

I don't think a brain can do much thinking with zero blood pressure. Just low blood pressure shuts it off pretty fast.

[@Mr.Guild1971]

Improper hanging,Hanging By Wire, is more cruel than axe and medieval. the romans would hang by wire on a pole and line the streets.. Executioner need not completely remove head to be a quick kill .If the spine is severed the person is dead. It's just more traumatizing for spectators. I believe guillotine or shooting is the most humane

[@Keithbarber]

Agree about shooting but not guillotine

[@markgrabowski8662]

How can you use the word "human"?

[@Renemor]

I can recommend reading Jens Bjørneboe's 'The History of Bestiality'. Norwegian writer. Genious book, depicting the cruelty of Man, like no one has ever done. Except for maybe Nietzsche's works.

[@thedwightguy]

or Atwood's "the Handmaids' Tale"; every incident in the book, she said, was done by man in some point in man's history. i.e. she didn't make anything up.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

Whoa! Talk about, "getting the axe."

[@williamemerson1799]

Lovely! 👍🍻

[@moistmike4150]

So much death, chaos and evil. What an awful time for Germany and the world.

[@Dilley_G45]

And still not half as bad as communist tyranny. Which by the way paved the way for Hitler.

[@johnglover4453]

Ouch!😵😵😵😵 What a terrible way to go!

[@bluetv6386]

If only one question remained and only one question remained does it mean that only two questions remained?

[@bold810]

Just because Axe worked for G.I. Joe doesn't mean he had anything to do with The Baroness and how the Tribunal adjucated her Espionage charges. Just not fair.

[@michael_mouse]

... the likeness of the subject matters image is somewhat inconsistent wouldn't you say?

[@martkbanjoboy8853]

I missed a visit to the ancient town hall in Ghent where all the ghoulish instruments of punishment were on display. Rats. I since learned that after so many uses in executions, the head lopping swords were retired and given a pension if that makes any sense at all. Maybe five hundred years ago it all made perfect sense. Cheers all.

[@martkbanjoboy8853]

The instruments of punishment on display there are all original as well or that is my understanding. I must make another visit over there someday.

[@bahoonies]

@TheUntoldPast There were far more brutal methods of execution than the German ax or richtbeil. It was a far superior instrument than the unwieldy ax in the Tower of London which you showed in your video. The haft was short and the ax head weighed about 12 pounds with a much larger cutting edge than the English ax. It was a well-balanced instrument and very fast and efficient. Because of the short haft and heavy blade the ax did not have to be lifted high and did not have to be swung with force as the weight and sharpness of the blade did most of the work. The protocol for the execution was very different from descriptions of English ax executions. Descriptions of German ax executions say that once the victim was handed over to the execution team of several men things moved very quickly indeed. There was very little blood seen because of the way the low bench on which the victim lay was positioned against the high execution block. It is worth noting that in previous centuries beheadings in the various German states were generally carried out with the sword. However, this required great skill which meant that executions were sometimes bungled. The ax was equally efficient and easier to use and so it came into use. Unlike the ax in the Tower of London it was designed to behead people and it did the work very quickly and well.

[@jonmcay9659]

Damian IWas a butcher in my younger days I'm 81 yrs old now,every Thursday I had to Use a big cleaver to chop the legs and shoulders off 100 frozen lambs,. I was so accurate with it I used to do 2 hits on the shoulders and always hit second in the same place.I know it's hard to believe but it is the truth , I was so accurate that one of my colleagues placed a matchstick lengthways on the block and with one go I split it down the middle I was amazed I never ever attempted it again I thought I'd leave it at that,

[@bahoonies]

@@jonmcay9659 I certainly do believe you. Looks like you missed out on an alternative career😁😁

[@markgrabowski8662]

whom do you post this for and why?

[@bahoonies]

@@markgrabowski8662 The @ sign at the beginning of my comment tells you to whom it is directed. As to the why - well their videos about executions are usually entitled The Brutal/Horrific etc execution. That strikes me as click bait. The fact is that executions are not pleasant but the German ax was extremely fast and effective, and the executioners who used it were very skilled. The whole process from when the victim was handed over to the executioner's assistants to the moment the ax fell was very quick. Hence I don't think the word 'horrific' was appropriate.

[@DarrenMalin]

in England they wanted the blood to be seen. executions were public and was meant to be a deterrent

[@sid2112]

Judge Wopner doesn't fugg around.

[@grantross2609]

anyone aware of the gore sites can tell you there's worse stuff than this going on all around the world today ! a so so sad reflection of where we are right now......

[@bernardmcmahon351]

Yes , humans are the most evil animals

[@Art-mo5bt]

I only caught wind of the ha satanic child molestation taking place in the Ukraine after the invasion began.

[@sztaro]

Great video - except for the narration: it sounds like revving a car engine for 9 minutes.

[@robbabcock_]

Yikes! Pretty horrific.

[@diogenesstudent5585]

Video starts at 6:40.

[@elizabethspedding1975]

RIP🌹

[@sebekglab]

Calling that she has been used is highly disrespectfully to her. Maybe she saw how immoral and cruel Germany was and decide to risk own life to cross evil plans being implemented. Polish Intelligence (called section 2 ) had many useful agents in Germany who actually provided informations not for personal profit , but because moral objection to German war of aggression.

[@TheYeti308]

Comes with the territory .

[@moritzblucher5023]

German executions by hand axe were performed in a different way as shown in this video - here ist a picture, that shows the "bench" - introduced by executioner Gropler!

[@moritzblucher5023]

sorry, cannot upload that picture

[@echangeclasse]

Sous titres s'il vous plaît. Sub títulos por favor gracias merci

[@tuomasmattila283]

execution is too easy punish to spying, treason etc. years continueing torture should be only punish

[@midnightteapot5633]

You omitted to mention that actual criminals were guillotined, not just dissenters, maybe it would have been stating the obvious mate!

[@VilhelmHammershoi1666]

Don't forget my brother Hans

[@ddoherty5956]

Sosnoski has a vampire/Putin look about him 🤣

[@piotrsyczak]

Benita Ursula Wilhelmine Kathi Florin von Falkenhayn - her family was impoverished after IWW 1:21 it is Renate Luise Mechthild von Natzmer, beheaded at the same day with Benita v Falkenhayn

[@jeffreyroberts7438]

It’s an evil world, always has been and always will be!

[@emirmuraticel2732]

NO PASARAN , never ever again. RIP.

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[@fritzhenning1]

One country's brave spy is another country's traitor.

[@martinmarsola6477]

She is with God now! ❤😂

[@scottmccloud9029]

Yes, if Jesus Christ was her savior.

[@martinmarsola6477]

@@scottmccloud9029 Any savior is good!

[@scottmccloud9029]

@@martinmarsola6477 No, sorry. Only Jesus Christ is the way to heaven. The others are false gods.

[@fredrickmarsiello4395]

@@scottmccloud9029 So go join her where she is.

[@scottmccloud9029]

@@fredrickmarsiello4395 Sorry, made other arrangements.

[@peteacher52]

LEST WE FORGET It is unfortunate and salutary to realise that there are, today, many criminals who would happily corrupt the expression to 'best we forget'.

[@petebondurant58]

She betrayed her Fatherland for a tryst. Thus always to traitors.

[@totaltouring829]

Barbaric.

[@Bshipbuilder]

R.I.P., hero

[@allanfifield8256]

Apparently she was a spy.

[@heyheynowinga9972]

at least she tried so good for her we won

[@janeaparis]

I hate war and politics.

[@johnaspinall3200]

How barbaric were the nazis to kill a poor young woman like that 😢

[@rafradeki]

Yeah its true, spies don't deserve to live unless its a pretty young woman then its ok

[@wcfields547]

Seriously that’s the level of you measure the barbaric level of the NAZIS ?

[@johnaspinall3200]

@@wcfields547 what do you mean 🤔

[@davidmacleod9313]

Even the children of the people that fought were affected by the war through their parents grief.

[@Inglese001]

War affects everyone. These guys wouldn't hesitate putting a child into a concentration camp. I salute this woman and anyone who stood up against the Nazis.

[@davidmacleod9313]

@@Inglese001 What I meant was children born after the war was over. I was born in 1954, only nine years after and I saw what it did to my mother. I was affected in a secondhand kind of way.

[@Jazzman-bj9fq]

Terrible execution method?? Is there such thing as a 'pleasant execution method'?

[@DarrenMalin]

Inert gas asphyxiation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inert_gas_asphyxiation#:~:text=Inert%20gas%20asphyxiation%20is%20a,largely%20of%20nitrogen%20and%20oxygen).

[@Jazzman-bj9fq]

@@DarrenMalin I've seen aircraft crew member low oxygen exercises where the oxygen level is reduced to simulate altitude and the individuals don't seem to be aware until they actually would lose consciousness. Even still, a condemned person would have the knowledge ahead of time that they would be put to death which for most would be pretty stressful I imagine. I'm pretty sure morphine overdose would be uneventful for the subject, much less so compared to having your head severed from your body.

[@Jazzman-bj9fq]

@@DarrenMalin I would think though that a 'pleasant execution' would defeat the partial purpose of a person being executed for a crime in the first place... Part of the deterrence of execution as a punishment is the fact that it isn't pleasant. Every day people exit this world relatively peacefully. Offering that as an option of punishment might even encourage the crimes for that sentence for some.

[@peterscrafton5212]

An interesting and sad story, but all executions could be said to be brutal - and is it really necessary to show the axe and block in the Tower, and to mention Henry VIII every time. With respect, this story could reasonably and sufficiently be told in half of the time actually taken

[@Genghis-Khan121]

It’s only interesting because they have gone to the trouble of telling us the details or what would be the point ? And yes I think it’s good that they show the instruments used in these executions gory but isn’t that the point

[@marchutton7640]

Seriously? If you want to be such a critic I would suggest you get your own channel and do it your way then. LOL What an Ass Clown.

[@tonymercer265]

It's a fact, perhaps people need to see just how brutal these times were so we can move on.

[@Kev-3006]

Yes, it is necessary to show the axe. It adds context. I don’t know what that equipment looks like. However, it would have been more accurate to show the German version.

[@scooterfoust4361]

Every soul is here to have a human experience and journey. Aside from murderers, it is not one human's right to end another human's earthly experience, period.

[@ccrider3435]

As long as people kill animals.... Animal killers are a lot like nazis & pedophiles: they dont have the right, just an opportunity.

[@scooterfoust4361]

@@ccrider3435 I abhor sport / trophy hunting, as well as animal abuse. If humanity evolved to a vegetarian diet, I could live with that. 👍

[@minnesbanks8]

Does that mean murderers? Do you have the right to murder?

[@scooterfoust4361]

@@minnesbanks8 Just meant that I support capital punishment.

[@lorenzbroll101]

Evidently they would draw a line in red lipstick on the victims neck. The brute with the axe then would have to concentrate on that line whilst he used the crude chopper. Of course many of the axe-men did not concentrate sufficiently due to being drunk, unhinged etc so the events soon turned ghoulish and prolonged with writhing victims. RIP poor victims of perverted political lusts!.

[@BennyMcGhee]

To the world, you are beheaded…but from your point of view, you are DE-BODIED! How horrible! As a man, the one thing I would hate to lose is…well, my manhood. Were I to be de-bodied, I would lose that plus everything else! How unspeakably awful! I personally refuse to procreate so as not to bring any more people into the cruel and awful world in which the only escape is death.

[@azbestusa8107]

please go to Vietnam museums how French treated them

[@peace-now]

At least the axe is more humane than the brutal American methods of flogging lashed to the cannon, electric chair and torture.

[@allangibson8494]

The Nazi Germans preferred short drop hanging for most of their executions…

[@beachboys3326]

Nonsense

[@alexbowman7582]

The Poles in 1939 had already cracked the Enigma code and mostly knew Germany’s plans so they wouldn’t directly need spies, at least to know Germany’s plans, although spies would be useful to cover the cracking of Enigma and it makes we wonder was she a patsy set up to cover the Poles knowledge of the plans? Also, British propaganda will say that Bletchley Park cracked Enigma but that isn’t true, in 1939 two Polish mathematicians fled to London taking the Enigma decoding with them.

[@JamesBond-qv2ht]

The narrator’s delivery is extremely annoying.

[@aperturelabs8552]

How to spot a gay WWII soldier... 8:37

[@alfredbeck2262]

Hitler big mistake is he did not know God. His mentality just only cruel. Look Ginkiskan ,he did not so brutal . Such as mentality God did not help him for conquer the world.

[@tommyt4062]

Why do we need recaps in an 8 minute video? Is in because the script and narration were so poor that at times it was difficult to understand what was said. Waffling crap to bulk up a story that could have been told in a few sentences doesn't inspire me to subscribe. If I wanted to watch meaningless crap that goes around in circles I would watch the soaps on TV.

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[@dennisyoung4631]

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[@thedwightguy]

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[@gratefulguy4130]

That's not how crypto works.

[@gratefulguy4130]

Most people who don't understand cryptocurrency talk about precious metals a lot, but they refuse to expand use-case (trade it locally so it's seen as acceptable currency and it's trade value is known). They also tend to understand how bad CBDC would be, but don't seem to realize that saying "nuh-uh, I don't wanna!" will do absolutely nothing to stop it (that is in fact how to usher it in), and that the only battlefield there is to fight it on is by utilizing cryptocurrencies which can't be centrally controlled. It's like an enemy has invaded your nation and convinced you that you're too smart to fight back because "battles are dumb". Smugly allowing the worst outcome to just happen while you point out that you protested weakly the whole time, as if that mattered.

[@patrickrichards2577]

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[@yawbee7711]

Brave than the COWARDz

[@_Yep_Yep_]

Donald Trump should take note.

[@kjererrt7804]

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[@njlauren]

Has to be one of history's more idiotic statement that Hitler didn't want Nazi Germany to be seen as medieval. Among other things, the medieval age ,while sadly far too often brutal, gave us art ahs music&,the underpinnings of the modern world. Nazi Germany moved things backwards, it set civilization in the country back a thousand years or more, the barbarian period.

[@BesoffenerIslamist]

Damn kid, that's some stupid statement. Just 1000 years? Why not 10000 years?

[@njlauren]

@@BesoffenerIslamist 10000 years ago ppl in Germany were still in the early stages of settling into permanent villages, they likely were more civilized or at least peaceful than 1000 years ago. No gluttonous church corrupted by power, no petty kingdoms killing each other over what kind nobleman got some 9 yr old princess as a bride.

[@fourfortyroadrunner6701]

Some of us believe there SHOULD BE executions, and that they SHOULD be public, VERY public, and BRUTAL. Maybe shitheads would not be so eager to beat to death, rob, rape, and so on.

[@DarrenMalin]

well that is the Germans for you.

[@adoculos4521]

Why do you emphasise and draw out the last word of every sentence? It's weird AF and very annoying.

[@thedwightguy]

engrish may not be his first wanguage?? or he's a smoker.

[@odikaiopolis2832]

Today we relive the NAZI brutality in UKRAINE form the ZELENSKY regime (a beautiful coexistence of a Jew with NAZIs).

[@hamdude2109]

Do we now? Are you sure you have the right side? I only ask because all good folks hate Russia…

[@odikaiopolis2832]

@@hamdude2109 YOU SHOULD GO WITH THE TIDE. I will not!!!! It is my right not to swallow the LANGLEY PROPAGANDA.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

What has Putin got you smoking?

[@allangibson8494]

That is what you Fuhrer Vladimir Putin wants you to believe while he supports the fascist government on the Russian side of the border. In other news the Wagner group are using death by sledgehammer for discipline.

[@odikaiopolis2832]

@@allangibson8494 I can understand that your cognitive warfare fails but you have to swallow it.