The HORRIFIC Execution Of France’s Last Public Guillotining

Throughout History there have been a number of execution methods used to take the lives of some of the most serious criminals. In France, the guillotine was a device which was used to execute the French King Louis XVI and his Queen Marie Antoinette, but it also was used to execute criminals. Many executions were performed in public in front of huge crowds, but the final public execution in France took place in 1939 before the Second World War broke out. Eugen Weidmann was a prolific serial killer who caused chaos and murdered many different victims inside of France.
He used devious means to lure people to their deaths, but following a number of killings he was arrested. He tried to shoot the officers who arrested him, and then was knocked out by a hammer. He confessed to his crimes, and after his trial was sentenced to death and his execution would be the final public execution in France. The crowd's behaviour that day was regarded as shocking, but Weidmann was led to the guillotine and was hurriedly execution as crowds flocked to the scene.
Join us today as we look at, 'The HORRIFIC Execution Of France's Last Public Guillotining.'
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[@YungJayCrb]

FUN FACT : actor Christopher LEE , was in the crowd for this . At the age of 17 -18 . If u don't know who he is , he plays count duku from Star Wars , or more notably, saruman from the lord of the rings

[@Heavymetalhunk]

Can't forget Dracula and was in a metal band 🤘

[@RoyalMalen]

Lee turned away at the last second..."'I didn't watch, but I heard it all clearly "

[@onlyme972]

He also played Samson the French executioner in French movies of the revolution

[@robertschweppenhauser9891]

The ONLY thing he regretted was getting caught.

[@Nicole-ju3zb]

That’s what I mean he murdered these poor people and women that mistook his actions as actual kindness, he was a slimy coward particularly getting off on taking the life of these women that did nothing to deserve it they were preyed on

[@bongascrobie]

Have to hand it to the french, they really knew how to get ahead

[@hypocratus7341]

I see what you did there . Take a like

[@kevinmunday6263]

Old

[@lorraineforster8164]

Haha

[@oilrules4302]

Patrick Donahue 😗😗😙🙃😅🤣😂🤣😅

[@david-cy9dd]

They were a real cut above the rest 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Clipgatherer]

Most of the still photographs of Weidmann’s execution were originally published in _Life_ magazine. There are also 2 films of this last public guillotining in France.

[@jeffwarren6906]

Hello Clipgatherer - I have seen one of the films you spoke of sir . That is what I thought this would be when I noticed the thumbnail for the video . Maybe there should still be public executions . The public are where the victims come from . We house and feed the prisoners ,, we pay for the prisons and the guards . We foot the bill for everything . Also the public is outraged by what these criminals do , how many familys lives are ruined by these thugs .. So too many won't crowd into see the execution they could hold a lottery allowing only so many , in that way crowds would be supervised and controlled . What I have suggested probably sounds sick and deranged , yet I'll wager that many sane and normal people would attend if for no other reason than that of venting their disgust for the brutality and sorrow these pieces of human waste cause { I'd put in for the lottery } ... Take care Clipgatherer and God bless you & yours ...

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

I saw that video. It was amazingly efficient. Took 2 seconds. Body rolls off into the coffin, head in the basket. Much more humane than lethal injection and firing squad.

[@LaSouthernGemini]

@@jeffwarren6906 Well said Jeff. I completely agree with your statement. We shall buy a lottery ticket together.

[@jeffwarren6906]

@@LaSouthernGemini - Hahahaha , whichever of us gets in the lottery line first will hold a place for the other .. Have a wonderful day Sir . P.S. - I as well am a Gemini ..

[@gerardmackay8909]

@@LaSouthernGemini if they sold tickets to see babies carved up on bacon slicers you pair of ghouls would be first in line.

[@petesmith9472]

The 1939 execution was witnessed by Orwell and by the actor Christopher Lee

[@EffectPlaceboThe]

He killed some people himself too.

[@androiduser4162]

💯

[@colinwood7020]

When a letter arrived for him at the last minute he said "put it in the basket I'll read it later"

[@patcoston]

The French government deemed this public execution too barbaric so they outlawed public execution. How is a private execution any less barbaric?

[@paultrevorbale2440]

The filmed execution was from the back of the platform so you actually don’t seen anything but the blade falling and the crowd reaction.

[@MrAntonBerg]

There are two films of this execution. I have seen Them Both here on KZbin. Both you as you say, you dont see “anything”.

[@winnienguyen4420]

There is a picture of the decapitated blood soaked corpse without his head inside a wooden coffin with some French officials smiling for the camera. It's pretty macabre, but you can probably find it if you look hard enough.

[@MrAntonBerg]

@@winnienguyen4420 I have never seen that pic you are referring to. It surely was a different time than today. By the way I have seen a movie of a real execution from Indochina from approx. 1915. 2 men were executed and it was filmed in front of the guillotine!!! Winnie - I guess you are from Vietnam the former Indochina.

[@winnienguyen4420]

@@MrAntonBerg yes sir I am originally from Vietnam. My parents came over to the U.S.around 1975.

[@raymondlengvarsky618]

@@MrAntonBerg There is one in which yo see the blade fall, and immediately his body pushed off the board into a coffin right beside the device

[@philipthomson7460]

As someone said in the 1978 movie Grease…..”Heyyy, too bad, Eugene!” 😂😂

[@renee1961]

I Appreciate all of your Research, Effort, and Time that goes into your videos.

[@voiceone4715]

You could say he was nervous, to the point of being beside himself.

[@cspace1234nz]

at least he quit while he was a head !

[@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479]

I'm sure he thought of himself as a no body 🙄

[@cspace1234nz]

@@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479 ....that's the price for sticking your neck out !

[@mimfi]

No wonder 😞

[@mchapman132]

Well, in the basket he was beside himself.

[@uhohangelica4695]

Then decades later one of the crowd members would suffer the same fate by some angry kid from Tatooine.

[@Tiisiphone]

[@deborahdauray8933]

Thank you

[@marwood1969]

"This was a time in which people possessed cameras". Well, thanks for that fascinating nugget of information!

[@660Oliver]

This was not the first execution to be photographed, nor the first one caught on film. The unruly mob and almost circus like atmosphere is what made the government move all future executions inside the prison walls.

[@peaceful3250]

Was it necessary to be so rude?

[@winnienguyen4420]

To be fair. Something as barbaric looking as the guillotine was shocking to see being used in public, especially in a highly cultured society like France. You just wouldn't expect it and it was a bit of a novelty. Same for the U.S. with their last public hanging in 1936, which appeared to have even more spectators than this one. I mean basically this kind of public executions should have been left in the 19th century at the very latest. It was just too barbaric for the 20th century with the advent of movies and radio and what not.

[@marwood1969]

@@peaceful3250 Rude? I'd say mildly sarcastic, but one mans sarcasm is another mans rude. No offence intended but it was a breathtakingly obvious statement.

[@Android3008]

It was never a symbol of morals, it has been always a symbol of terror

[@660Oliver]

If you'd do a little research on the history of the guillotine, you'd see that it was the product of noble intentions. It offered a more humane form of death ( as opposed to slow strangulation by hanging or breaking on the wheel ), as well as giving equality between the classes by having one uniform method. Robespierre and his cronies were responsible for using it as a form of terror and repression. After they were overthrown, it resumed it's intended purpose as an instrument of judicial punishment.

[@graemer3657]

It meant everyone was executed in the same painless way and with a method that was 100% quick and reliable. In pre revolutionary France execution of the rich was quick and painless and for the poor it was often slow and painful. The guillotine was fairer, and more humane than what it replaced. In Nantes for example “counter revolutionaries” were tied together and thrown off a boat in order to slowly drown, . Robbers and murderers were tied to a wheel, all their arms and legs broken, and then slowly strangled. In July 2021 the US Justice department issued a report that 35% of US executions were “botched” and imposed a moratorium on executions until this was fixed. The guillotine was reliable. 100% effective. Execution is terrifying. If you are going to be executed this was more humane than it sounds. I know that sounds bizarre.

[@thetruthsetsyoufree1492]

@@graemer3657No, I vaguely remember watching a KZbin video a long time ago about a research on decapticated heads. Scientists reported that the beheaded survived up to two or maybe five seconds.

[@bennychapman3354]

Very much so.

[@maulporphy4399]

Christopher Lee was in the crowd, a schoolboy on holiday.

[@davidgreen5994]

I've seen the video, and to be honest, I've been surprised by the swiftness of all... it looks so dramatic and ritualistic in movies, but this, from the moment he got out of the door, the moment he was decapitated, it was like 5 seconds.

[@s0meRand0m129]

if it's in KZbin , do you have the link??

[@armel6157]

@@s0meRand0m129 yes still up kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIrYkH-dhJ5lbJI and kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKvMapx7lM-anMk

[@davidpeters6536]

What is "like" 5 seconds, 4 or 6 seconds?

[@AnhNguyen-hr6wh]

In my country the French had a mobile Guiloteen, It was like a trailer pulled by a truck and they would travell the country side, town to Town. It was quite the social thing, set the machine up and then decide to exicute before or after lunch. My wifes grandfather was murdered in this manner. Her father was 4mths old and never saw his father. His crime was being a communist ?

[@poihp25]

Which country?

[@paulajames3937]

​@PoiiPoii I believe Vietnam;;They used them during the Vietnam war.

[@Occitan-Descoteaux]

Communism is a crime in fact

[@Bulldumbdumb]

@@paulajames3937not true

[@paulajames3937]

​@@BulldumbdumbYes,it is look it up;Guillotines in Vietnam; Google it.

[@nickharmer3049]

Appreciate this content. Bless up bro 👊

[@crazyferret9409]

It is widely known that the actor Christopher Lee was present at the execution and did indeed soak a tissue on blood.

[@nathd1748]

He was present from an elevated viewing point. He DID NOT rush to soak anything in blood. You made that up.

[@musicroolsman994]

He arrived in a red and white 1960's Kombi he stole off some victims i believe? Count Yorga the prick! Peace.

[@pouipouicbedeau9664]

Fake...

[@nathd1748]

@@pouipouicbedeau9664 Woke

[@renee1961]

Good afternoon, and Thank You for your videos.

[@010Jordi]

A German being executed in France in 1939 you have to question how guilty he was and if he wasn't just executed for being German especially because was working with 2 people who weren't executed

[@jimredd652]

I think it was because he committed more than one murder

[@shop-a-holic3194]

👀 … He was/is a proven murderer! German or not! There was no doubt!!!

[@jimredd652]

@@shop-a-holic3194 Yeah I think the adjectives used like " horrific" relates to it being in public and photographable rather than the verdict or sentence

[@TheFlowerday96]

@@jimredd652 He committed the murders not the others

[@jimredd652]

@@TheFlowerday96 that is precisely what I said

[@michaelturner5443]

Should be reinstated

[@leoniscsem]

The pronounciation is not Weedy-man. The pronouciation is like Wyde-mahn.

[@MLM18867]

Justicia was served in both cases, 1939 and 1977 or 73.

[@arildsolemdal6966]

Is that a real person narrating this? Sounds like a robot.

[@beniirama4076]

and christopher lee was one of those crowd watching..

[@1960dave1960]

There’s a letter for you? Put it in the basket I’ll read it later…😅😂🤣

[@deancoronado4898]

The French are on the cutting edge of practicing justice.

[@jambierjean-pierre7535]

en espérant son grand retour , il y en a qui n'ont rien a faire avec la tête sur les épaules

[@anneewen8025]

Exact La dernière date de 1977 et était largement méritée quand on voit les ravages qui ont suivi au niveau de la criminalité 😮😮😮

[@GG-jw8pt]

His profile mugshot must have been taken after the first attempt!😂

[@peetsnort]

Benny hill dolly bird... What's that in the road? A head? Benny.. No no no What's that in the road ahead

[@quietusplus1221]

You? Don't? Have? To? End? Every? Sentence? Or Word? With a? Questionmark?

[@양병학-e1e]

Horrific execution scene graphic, but less than throwing into boiling water.

[@TheFlowerday96]

With boiling you wont get spurted with blood.

[@winnienguyen4420]

Last I heard that used was by King Henry VIII

[@dp-sr1fd]

@@winnienguyen4420 I have never heard of that. Boiling alive was a method used in the Far East I think.

[@martynlancaster4453]

Why’s he have a bandage around his head ?

[@sammy6176]

Then they finally decided after the fact that it was too brutal???🤦‍♀️

[@Triforce-guy69420]

He was being executed meanwhile in a galaxy far far away

[@Rockhound6165]

Why is this "horrific"? He got off easy.

[@MikeItuarte-o1j]

Awesome 👍

[@lonnylundquist9818]

Some people should have quit while they were ahead

[@michaelwhalen2442]

They dipped their handkerchiefs in his blood. Hmmm... Maybe now they can clone him...

[@yackawaytube]

Oh the horror, and only 3 months later WWII officially started.

[@walterkramp-holzwarth862]

Was für ein undeutlicher Slang...

[@ridawashere]

Since this date France decrease in problems with justice. Actually the murderers can confess to the crimes and no longer be afraid because at worst they will be in prison (housed and fed) for life paid by French taxes......

[@glennpowell3444]

I would imagine that the frame has to be totally true to avoid the blade either sticking or catching and not gaining enough momentum.Also it must have to pass between the vertebrate as oppossed to striking the bone.?

[@ap-ej9pc]

There's a reason the guillotine is 4 - 5 meters tall and has a very heavy blade (the blade itself close to 10 kg, and 60+ kg in the weight). The momentum goes through vertabrae just as easily as between them.

[@chrisnewport7826]

A quick way, if messy

[@dtc1091]

Fousands of people 🙄

[@m_hub3957]

hard to feel sorry for murderers i see little about their victims on your channel

[@samueldavis2327]

No recidivism.

[@york1881]

did you sing your comments without musical 🎶 🎶 back ground ???

[@Marcfj]

Disgusting!

[@bruceshaw2402]

These video's are very good but I find the narrators voice really annoying to the point that I can't watch them .

[@siegfried7469]

They're off their heads

[@evoandy]

Little known fact: Christopher Lee was in attendance at this execution.

[@lannyseals2084]

2:20 Charlie Chapman is in the house..

[@Davemurray2880isaindian]

Wouldn't everyone get covered in blood?

[@tripmonk0]

Yet ANOTHER waste of time!!!

[@erepsekahs]

I think it is most probably the most humane way to take a person's life. It is painless and instant. It LOOKS horrible, but I think all other methods I have heard of or have seen, are worse.

[@clansuigeneris7804]

I think getting rid of death penalty would be the best choice

[@joshtaylor6911]

Actaully it's the least humane method of execution because the brain lives for up to three minutes after decapitation. This was proven at a guillotine execution when the executioner lifted the severed head of the deceased inmate and called his name, three times the eyes opened in response, proving the concept that the brain responded for a time before it actaully died of oxygen starvation. The electric chair is beyond doubt the most humane method of execution because the shock it delivers is so brutally powerful, it causes brain stem death instantly, the condemned is alive one moment, dead the next. The subsequent shocks are to make sure the job is done and actually cooks internal organs to make sure there is no chance of survival. There has only ever been one person who survived the first shock, his name was Willy Francis and that only occurred due to fault in the chair. This is why all modern chairs are tested prior to execution. Francis was executed without a hitch after the fault was corrected. That being said there has never been a botched execution with the chair so far as survival is concerned. The chair has taken the life of every inmate who's sat In one and it is instant. Lethal injection is not as humane as people think either, it has had many botched executions with it.👍

[@jamesmckay9966]

get your voice fixed

[@juditbalogh5310]

…and Christopher Lee was there…

[@thegayestgoth]

Nah.

[@MountainRaven1960]

When Weidmann was pushed onto the bascule, it was found to have stuck, and he couldn’t be slid forward. So not to hold things up, Weidmann was shoved forward quickly instead, and his height reduced in an instant. If you watch carefully, you can see him being manhandled roughly and being shoved forward. One of the assistants who positions the victim’s head in place was given a dressing down for being out of place when the blade fell.

[@express777100]

the assistant who was told of was andre obrecht later to become chief executioner.

[@BenDover-tj8vf]

Cannot beat free public entertainment

[@maryettamoody5079]

Dam horrable

[@crphilipp]

He lost his head

[@HarrisVonBass]

Sir Christopher Lee was 17 and witnessed this historic moment...what a badass

[@chuckabutty888]

The then to later become a famous actor Christopher Lee witnessed this excecution.

[@StephenPaulConwell]

yes it's a horrible way to go

[@nicolaspetit6718]

Most human exécution

[@lemur-bat]

??? this entire video is plagiarized almost word for word from the wikipedia article about weidmann. do your own research, this is such lazy videomaking. damn.

[@cheburatour]

Франция всегда была образцовой демократией и славилась своим соблюдением прав человека. 😂

[@patrickfarrell6353]

I wonder if Jesus was executed by guillotine instead of a crucifix, if people would worship the guillotine as they do the cross.

[@archimedesmaid3602]

Certainly!!! We would be walking around with little tiny guillotines hanging from our necks and ears. And we would be totally convinced that God gives us some sort of credit for that Same thing as now, only its much easier to make a cross The main, most important ritual of Christianity has been human sacrifice, and we have well demod that for the last 2000 years.

[@thirtyfoursevenzero]

Somewhere in that crowd @ 5:48 is a young 17 yr-old Christopher (Dracula/Scaramanga) Lee

[@stringsixxx7684]

Come on the French or the ancient Frank's took down Rome because Rome wouldn't pay them the money or actually give them a country as they promised so yeah and their blood they're kind of badass

[@katiejon17]

I struggle with this. As a Catholic I see value in not executing people to allow them as much time as possible to save their souls. But I do wonder if the most cold-blooded killers were publicly executed, would it knock some sense into others who are going down an evil path? I don’t know.

[@meezermom1951]

And what about the souls of the innocent he destroyed? Do they not matter? He made a choice to murder and for that choice he deserved death. The religious are always coming up with excuses for not punishing those who do great evil in the world. No sympathy for those who were innocent victims. All they do is prattle on about heaven. There is no heaven or hell. What you get here on earth is all there is. You don't get to beg your way into forgiveness by turning to religion. You made a choice, you deal with the consequences of that choice-here. Not in some imaginary place that you feel gives you forgiveness.

[@redmi9834]

Well, the law of the old testament given by Yahweh was that wilful murderers were to be put to death.

[@redmi9834]

@@meezermom1951 Repentance is for this life. You have to repent this side of eternity and not something like an after thought when you have crossed the line from this life to eternity.

[@meezermom1951]

@@redmi9834 Again, saying you are sorry is not that big of a deal to those who survive the brutality of the loss of a loved one due to the evil someone else has done. That is why prisons are packed full of religious conversions which really mean nothing or should not. Saying you are sorry after you got caught is really pretty pathetic. Living an honorable life and not doing the crime is better than saying sorry afterwards. Same as a deathbed conversion.

[@katiejon17]

@@meezermom1951 you need to relax and learn to cope.

[@alfredeneuman6966]

One study found that a human head might still be conscious 25-30 seconds after decapitation. Pretty gruesome

[@pouipouicbedeau9664]

Fake...

[@martinthrone7012]

The audio description on the video isn't working! what's the flipping point of making a video like this if the audio works haphazardly

[@peaceful3250]

No problem for me.

[@ChrisTaylor-xv2tc]

This execution was viewed by a young Christopher Lee who was on holiday with his parents. He went on to become Dracula amongst many other roles

[@bobmarshall3700]

Barbarism at its best!

[@basher50]

The most horrific thing is the narrators voice.

[@kingofthetrill3586]

Praise Christ 🙏🏽

[@Wowvis-lc9us]

4:30 The execution took place before sunrise nothing like losing your head before breakfast

[@pouipouicbedeau9664]

fake. Indeed, the sun was already up. and that's why the scene could be filmed. the execution was very late.

[@raymondmaxwell9072]

Animals!

[@santodomingo1605]

The physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin recommended use of this machine as a humane method of execution so I wonder why horrific is capitalised. This execution was witnessed by the actor Christopher Lee and a grainy film shows that from when Weidmann first appears the whole business was over in seconds. Breaking on the wheel is what I would call horrific or burning alive.

[@archimedesmaid3602]

Because EVERYTHING on you tube is clickbait, or hadn't you noticed?

[@hairybear7705]

So why not show the actual execution? A very quick procedure, all over in two or three seconds. After all, there's endless Internet videos of Russians soldiers being blown to bits by the Ukrainian forces. Far more horrific, go look for yourself.

[@TheFlowerday96]

It would be a quick demontization and a video removal for him.

[@winnienguyen4420]

I think it's the fact that this execution was performed in peace time France. A country that most people considered to be so beautiful, elegant, and romantic. A random beheading on the streets would have just been barbaric and not very palatable to most western civilizations of that time period. I mean the Nazis nor the Soviets were even performing public executions like this.

[@Zeb70]

russians deserve it just as much if not more. i have the same amount of sympathy for both.

[@junicohen7918]

​@Zeb70 how dare they protect there land and people against American agression.anyhow Ukraine needs soldiers so go join up.

[@TheKansasredneck]

Horrific? He deserved a much worse execution. We have a crime epidemic because we don't punish criminals swiftly and we are too lenient. Research has proven that when the death penalty is applied within six months the murder rates go down, even when not done publicly.

[@dr.options]

Lolol...no studies have shown that. Pure nonsense.

[@karhukivi]

@@dr.options Since the death penalty for ordinary crimes was abolished in Ireland in 1964, the population has doubled but the murder rate has quadrupled. A rapist will now murder so as to avoid a witness. With the death penalty around the corner, there would be an incentive to let the victim live.

[@conmanumber1]

Gosch I wonder what one would think few hours up to that fate?.

[@thegayestgoth]

“Gosch”

[@mark-wn5ek]

Absolutely the worst narrator on KZbin

[@SMTVStudios]

NPC comments are wild

[@frankmack7517]

It only cut half way through and didnt hit any vitals he was still alive when they hit him again

[@jacquesrenou2850]

Good!

[@armel6157]

you sire? the body seem to fall off after in this video of the execution kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIrYkH-dhJ5lbJI

[@archimedesmaid3602]

BS

[@thomaswinston5142]

No state should have the right to kill a citizen in such a barbaric manner. 2 wrongs do not make a right.

[@aloysiusdevanderabercrombi470]

So no discipline. No consequences. Maybe you should sit down with all the murderers in your home and just explain to them how it's ok whatever they did, and they will surely see the light and never commit another crime.

[@redmi9834]

It depends on your religious beliefs and creed. There are many crimes in the old testament law that have the death penalty. Islam adopted many of these and included them into their Sharia law. The Catholic Church until the Second Vatican council had no issues with execution for premeditated murder. At one time in their history they had no problem with execution for heresy and apostasy. Then we came to what is known as enlightenment.

[@erthiorahard]

@@aloysiusdevanderabercrombi470 Germany between 1950 and 1960 almost had no crimes without a death penalty, just real prisons where no one would like to be for the rest of his life, and they had to do hard work there.

[@thomaswinston5142]

@@aloysiusdevanderabercrombi470It's been proven that the death penalty is no deterrent, there are life and whole life sentences.

[@Zeb70]

@@thomaswinston5142 doesnt mean they deserve it.

[@gazzgarage5412]

Most annoying narrator voice of all time

[@Nick-ye5kk]

No need to mention it...

[@johnquinn4151]

The frogs are in humane

[@3of930]

A brutal end to a brutal bastard.

[@thegayestgoth]

I can’t imagine a guillotine still being used while KISS was singing “I Wanna Rock and Roll All Night”. That’s WILD.

[@elouanp4588]

Ahh c'était le bon vieux temps

[@myrants5836]

Apparently actor Christopher Lee was in the crowd and witnessed this execution.

[@davidkennedy8929]

Well he was very tall so managed to see above the crowd!!

[@davidkennedy8929]

He was a full “head” above the crowd!

[@nhlcbj]

In 1989 he played Charles Henri Sanson, the executioner during the French Revolution

[@chrismason5905]

It wasn't Christopher Lee. It was his father.

[@davehoward22]

It was christopher lee

[@williamegler8771]

He was tried and convicted and execution by guillotine was the sentence. The guillotine is a very quick way to be executed so how is the execution horrific?

[@mamacat63]

Horrific for the onlookers. Not so much for the executed

[@tanabell3823]

Apparently your brain is still alive for several minutes after decapitation, and so the "victim" would be aware that his head is off of his body and able to see the crowd cheering as the executioner held up his head. Sounds pretty horrifying, but then, if they ended up on the guillotine, they probably deserved it.

[@TheFlowerday96]

Just imagine an unsettled soda being opened sideways. That will be the first few seconds.

[@cspace1234nz]

@@mamacat63 ....you think ? I would say the thought for weeks, probably months, that you were going to be beheaded would be horrific in the extreme. We cannot begin to imagine the psychological state of the prisoner, though there's a great deal of research on this matter with prisoners on death row and they are at least getting a slightly more civilised execution.

[@erinrose1995]

How do you, or anybody else know it’s quick ?? Don’t think anyone ever survived it to tell us.

[@cindydott452]

02:21 little did that guy know, but his mustache style was about to be forever tarnished in a few short years!

[@winnienguyen4420]

Same with Charlie Chaplin

[@renejean2523]

Hitler copied Charlie Chaplin. He was a fan of his films.

[@winnienguyen4420]

Weidmann reminds me a lot of Ted Bundy. A guy that looked harmless and was allegedly very charming with the ladies. I've also always wondered what the Nazi's thought about this whole ordeal considering Weidmann was a German citizen and this execution occurred just a couole of months before WW2 officially started. Was Weidmann a member of the Nazi Party? Was he anti-Nazi and living in France because he didn't like the regime? I've never heard any opinions given regarding the matter and just wondering if anyone has any answers to these questions....

[@williamfielding6476]

You might be surprised to know that Hitler loved the guillotine and had around 27,000 people, mostly French underground fighters killed during WW2 with it....What a bloody horrific mess......

[@TeutonicTribe]

It’s said he did express regret for this one woman he squelched, that it was a shame because she was naive and innocent, didn’t deserve to die- or words to that effect. Nazi, Jew, atheist, apolitical… doesn’t much matter. A serial killer will kill serially- ‘it’s what he needs to fully… live’ 👿

[@nickm7911]

There is no record of Weidmann being involved in any political groups or having any political leanings or affiliations. I personally think he did not hold any strong political views one way or the other. He fled to France after committing crimes in Germany... so it's more likely that he was simply seeking refuge in a neighboring country, rather than specifically avoiding Nazi rule. It is also possible that he was concerned about possible conscription which was mandatory in Germany. As for the Nazi's thoughts on Weidmann's execution, it is unlikely that they paid much attention to it.

[@alfredeneuman6966]

Ted Bundy fried in the electric chair. Bundy often revisited his dead victims, sometimes performing sex with the corpses until wild animals destroyed the bodies too much to do so. At least 12 severed heads were kept as mementos in his apartment. Weidmann is almost a school boy in comparison. In some ways Bundy's death was worse, jerking about in the chair still conscious as 2000 volts of electricity hit him. While on death row Bundy married and fathered a child. Ridiculous. Bundy's brain was removed and studied. Nothing unusual was found.

[@steveshapiro326]

I was thinking the same thing about Ted Bundy. Weidmann was fluent in French and offered to help translate for that young American woman he killed. Weidmann probably didn't care much about politics in his native Germany. Guess his only concern was enriching himself and outsmarting police.

[@warjacare]

Horrific are the crimes commited by the accused.

[@antoniocappione4259]

Right about that...my friend...

[@jermvelez3444]

Oui

[@mishasumi6827]

That will temporarily be true. But then the state will find it too useful.....

[@tripmonk0]

What a really tedious uninterested commentary style. Like he's so obviously reading from lines!?!?