Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans and their friend Chrisoph Probst were all guillotined in the space of five minutes. I don't know why the attention always focusses on Sophie - the others were just as brave and ended up just as dead.
I think the story of sophie was particularly popular back during the war and that’s caused her to be more known today. Plus a young girl being executed will be stronger propaganda
Because women are givers of life, we give birth, so there is something inherently more perverted about executing a woman. Women also rarely commit violent crimes, so a violent death also seems very out of place.
@@hcrunHow so - what's wrong with this: _"This specific fallbeil was destroyed at the end of the war, but it's believed it may of actually just been hidden and it's recently resurfaced in a Bavarian museum."_
The guillotine, developed by the medical doctor who lent it his name, was considered a more humane method of execution than the previous means of using a heavy sword or an axe. There are a number of reports of botched and needlessly gruesome executions when the executioner missed the neck or didn't bring down the axe hard enough, needing to land blow after blow, until the head finally severed. As far as being humane, the only form of execution that was used alternatively was death by hanging, but only as far as the drop method goes. Regular hanging is just a slow and agonizing strangulation. The problem with hanging is that is requires an experienced chap like Albert Pierpoint to carry it out. Ideally, the fall should break the person's neck, making death instantaneous. Too short a rope leads to death by strangulation. Too long, it might tear the head from the body. As hard as it may sound, an unexpected bullet to the back of the head is as quick and painless a death as anybody could hope for.
@@jdrancho1864 Didn't Saddam Hussein's head come off, when he was hanged? (At least you know he's dead-----). Albert Pierrepoint wasn't around for that one.
According to the Wikipedia entry on Dr. Guillotine, he " was a French physician, politician, and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out death penalties in France, as a less painful method of execution than existing methods. Although he did not invent the guillotine and opposed the death penalty, his name became an eponym for it. The actual inventor of the prototype was a man named Tobias Schmidt, working with the king's physician, Antoine Louis.
@@malcolmledger176 Thx for the info. I was working from memory, and I always thought Guillotine was the inventor of the device, and therefore justified in naming it after him.
Death would be quick and relatively painless. The fear and anxiety the condemned would experience prior to execution would go to the overall brutality of the method. It was too easy
How quick? It was at first thought to be instant but people started thinking maybe not. One soon to be guillotined scientist said to his friend I’ll blink after, count them and he blinked 14 times.
Well, especially when we consider that those who were executed by the Nazi Germany for anti-Nazi things would be handled far more brutaly by the Gestapo during the investigation... But those people were heroes, so easy death is the best we can wish for them...
@@kennethbeaton8391 in the US doctors won’t carry out lethal injections meaning sometimes they’re done by prison staff who don’t have medical expertise and often have a relationship with the condemned.
Actually it wasn't brutal at all, it was quick and to the point. Unless you're considering all of the blood that the heart pumped out of the body after the head was severed.
@@HydraulicJack Most of us prefer to stick around. However, if I had to go, I can think of many, many worse ways to go. I can also think of many, many better ways to go.
Johann Reichardt was an executioner during the American hangings at Lansberg prison after the war. It is said that he took advice from Albert Pierpoint on the most humane way of performing a hanging. At Lansberg, the Nazi war criminals were hanged using the standard drop method. Reichardt was not allowed to use the British measured drop method, but films taken of the executions showed him placing the noose at the left hand side, while the American hangman placed it behind the prisoner. Reichardt performed these duties in morning dress, and was known to be a stickler for ensuring that his executions were solemn and dignified.
Like Pierpoint, Reichardt was a thoroughgoing professional who cared mostly for doing a proper job. Both would be excellent subjects for a Fortress episode.
If you have ever seen videos of the "hangings" in Iran, there is one where the condemned are placed on top of a bus which is then driven away. The short drop style. One of the people tries jumping into the air to make the drop longer and death or oblivion quicker. They knew how gruesome the short drop/strangulation, method really is.
@@wylie5525 executions in Iran are absolutely disgusting and especially because they aren't just executing murderers. They are executing people just for being gay, disagreeing with the government, or harmless drug offenses. I really wish the Iranian people were able to topple the horrific regime they have been living under since 1979.
francoise bloch serazin ;french resistance heroin; was executed by fallbeil in hamburg 1943 at 29 ; ingeneer she was artificer of the parisian resistance in 1940/1942 rip
@@SteffiReitsch Punishing an innocent person for nothing is better than not punishing a criminal? That's about the most retarded thing I've read in a while.
And Youngest to be Dismembered was Hong Tian Guifu, the Son of Hong Xiu Quan, the Paladin Lord of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. He was arrested after Nanking was collapsed by Qing and Got Dismembered with 1500 cuts in 15.
@@emzybenzey China's Dismemberment by thousand cut is even terrible than beheading. And Most of the Paladins of Taiping heavenly Kingdom have been martyred by such terrible way because of Angry Manchus after the Tianjing was Collapsed.
If you have to kill someone surely this is amongst the most humane? Okay it looks horrific and decapitation itself makes most of us squirm but in terms of pain inflicted and length of execution this must be one of the best methods? If capital punishment exists it should be as fast and painless as possible, the condemned persons punishment is death, not tortured to death.
Unfortunately, decapitation doesn't result in instant death, as numerous accounts from the French Revolution, and reports from the occasional gruesome accident, show. Also, experiments with rats showed that, rather than the 10 seconds after which humans are supposed to lose consciousness, the rats' brains showed activity consistent with consciousness up to 29 seconds after decapitation, so no, I would argue that this is far from a humane method of killing. A bullet to the head, or carbon monoxide poisoning would be preferable.
@@stovepipe9er I saw it on the internet years ago.Brief description...He had his hands tied behind his back and was laid flat on his stomach.As soon as the blade decapitated him,his body was pushed by a pulley system into a coffin.The footage was secretly recorded.
No words on the ongoing use in East Germany after WWII? Is was used in Leipzig were you can visit the execution chamber in a normal multi flat building.
One would _think_ it is quick and painless, but then we have no idea how long it really takes for the head to die, and what it experiences during this time
I read an account of a French doctor questioning the severed head of a nobleman who was guillotined, asking the victim to blink twice for yes and once for no. He was able to ask seven questions before it became unresponsive, although the final two or three had to be repeated as it faded. The second question was "are you in pain?" and the response was an emphatic yes.
i don't believe it - i think the catasthophic loss of blood pressure would render the person immediately unconcious and any asking of questions is like asking a frog to twitch it's legs twice etc etc. there is of course only one way to find out and so if people think differently that is okay with me. i'm not gonna lose my head over it
@@billynomates920 Have you read the reply from Basil Thomas just before yours? Even if it is quick, it still takes time for the blood to drain from the head, for nerves to stop responding, for brain activity to seize, it is not immediate.
@@Hannodb1961 yes i did and i still say the french doctor was either lucky or lying about the response - there is no way auto-sympathetic nervous response is consciousness. think about the effects of g-force, think about standing up too quickly sometimes, neither of these are anywhere near as drastic a loss in blood pressure as having your head cut off but both result in blackout and lack of concious response.
The device is less brutal than the Electric Chair or Gas Chamber. A quick chop vs. Literally Frying a human with electricity is much preferred. For brutality, how putting a human in a steel chamber and suffocating them with a gas that blisters the lungs. How about botching a hanging, the knot is supposed to break the neck, but what if it does not, or the neck breaking does not "kill" the prisoner?
Why they can't just sit people in a similar chamber & adjust the airflow for increasingly pure nitrogen over the course of say a minute, if you *must* have capital punishment. That way you just "grey out" & lose consciousness to death by hypoxia. Swiss are phasing it in for voluntary euthanasia I think. Slightly comparable to a few air accidents where cabin pressure didn't stabilise to 10,000 feet equiv. automatically, & O2 mask didn't auto-release, pilots didn't detect the problem due to mental debilitation
When used properly the chair is supposed to knock the victim unconscious with the first jolt and then stop the heart with the second jolt. Although many idiots using it either had no clue what they were doing or actually wanted to make the victim suffer. But yes even though its only a secondary method of execution in some states these days and only if the condemned chooses it over lethal injection I still think it should be completely abolished. But I'm anti-capital punishment anyway.
Yep and actually the Nazis were still performing axe executions as late as 1935. They executed two women, Benita von Falkenhayn and Renate von Natzmer this way for espionage for Poland. Apparently there was such an uproar from Britain, France, and the U.S. that Hitler immediately banned axe and block executions and put an order in for a dozen fallbeil to be used throughout Germany. Pretty weird though that Hitler even gave a damn about public relations considering everything else he did.
In 1989 Christopher Lee played the role of the executioner Sanson in the film La Révolution Française. There are excerpts from the film on RUclips including one of him executing Saint Just and Robespierre.
US law prohibits the mutilation of a corpse. Beheading is considered vile, and unnecessarily brutal, and it mutilates the remains of a person executed. Only the US Military was allowed an exemption for death by firing squad. Gas Chambers and Lethal Injection are the prime ways of execution now in the USA. Some states do still have the electric chair still. That too is not a clean way to execute a prisoner.
The firing squad is still a choice for a condemned person in Utah. It goes along with the early Mormon belief that atonement for murder and a couple of other sins cannot be achieved unless there is blood spilled. Gas chambers may be used, but they have been converted into places where lethal injections are performed, gas is no longer used.
The inhuman electric chair ot poison injctions or being hung by a-non professional were really brutal and spending years in the death row is inhuman too.
Then there's the Japanese "you never know if this your last day" uncertainty. Thankfully they don't hang many people. I suppose it's a bit like life when you get old, never know if/when a heart-attack's round the corner
@@nukkinfuts6550 Did the Japanese ever hung the guy who killed 191 people by sending poison gas the the subway air ducts. I never heard of his death but boy that dude deserved it!
Its said that Louis XVI actually suggested the angled blade having been fascinated by mechanics and was named after a committee member in France creating it. Social Justice was behind part of the thinking since the condemned were often executed by various means and would made everyone under it equal. Indeed beheading was often for the elite like Ann Boleyn or King Charles 1st, where hanging or whatever ended the condemned in the region was for those below their class. Reichart was sparred a War Crime Trail because he never left Germany for executions or carried one out under the authority of the regimes courts. He did participate in some hangings but quit since the US Army wasn't as skilled as the British and likely wouldnof used a Falbiel glady instead if allowed. The notorious Sgt Woods the US Army's hangman enjoyed the suffering he caused by placing the noose incorrectly and met his end doing electrical work he too had not skill in but did anyway...
It seems less brutal than most other methods, to be honest. It also seems that it would be harder to screw up, although anything can happen, of course. If I had to go out execution-style, I'd take this over the chair, hanging or the gas chamber.
No, death is not instantaneous. The brain will slowly fade into unconsciousness as the oxygen inside is used up. How much pain you feel from a massive cut is debatable unless someone has measured it somehow. I'm not brave enough to look it up. 😮
@HARRY KOSSEC Execution still held in Communist countries during 1980s. Romanian dictator, Ceausescu and his wife were executed by firing squad in December 1989.
Im anti-death penalty all the way, but I really think the current method of lethal injection using hydromorphone (an opiate) and midazolam (a benzodiazepine) is best. The condemned just goes out in a surge of euphoria. This drug cocktail is different from the previous one where they were using potassium chloride to stop the heart. That is why many previous lethal injection executions were botched and I hope they don't reintroduce potassium chloride ever again.
One normally associates the 3rd Reich with the holocaust and massacres such as Lidice & Oraddur and the well known reprisals after the July 20th Plot, all the histories of the 3rd Reich I have read barely mention the other thousands of victims excuted behind prison walls across Germany and even a few other places. Thankyou for this grim reminder of yet another brutal aspect of the Nazi regime.
Jolly old England carried out mass murders in Ireland in the 1920's. And fired on Dublin using battleships. Of course killing Irish Catholics doesn't excite the same condemnation. Ir any other of the native peoples the British butchered in the course of the 20th Century.
Actually, they used sterilized needles for lethal injection because a stay of execution has been called at the last minute and you wouldn't want them to get an infection and die from it. Because that would be negligence. The American legal system is insane
If the brain takes 3 minutes to start dying, would you still see and hear until it faded out? Mary Queen of Scots was said to still be speaking her prayers and they did an experiment with a French prisoner, Longuie, where his eyes followed a man around the room for a minute.
beheaded cannot speak as you need to blow air through the vocal chords. But your lungs are inaccessible at that moment. Few minutes is time when irreversible damage to brain cells starts. Doesn't mean that person is consciousness. Brain is said to have close to zero reserve of "fuel" thus when blood flow is stopped, it in moments run out of supply and stops to work.
@mungo7136 yeah, makes sense. I didn't mean she spoke, no vocal chords, but apparently her mouth kept moving. But could be death thro twitches. I don't think they'd be conscious for long, although tests with french prisoner Longe Gui showed he was responsive for 60 seconds and could respond to commands.
Leave it to the Germans to take a crude but effective device, make it out of metal using precision machine tools and use precision bearings for a smooth, gliding action, with a guard to catch the splatter, (neatness counts!) Basically an assembly line of death.
A messy, gory way to execute someone . You would have needed a strong stomach to attend an execution using a gullotine more so than any other method . Quick but very brutal .
Compared to what? The electric chair? Getting your head shaved, buttplug inserted etc!? Getting boiled alive!? Placed in cold water then see the flames for an hour or so!? You got pretty piss poor fantasy if you this this is the worst method.. I donmt know the name in english, the method where you break all the bones in your body one after another!? The Fallbeil seems like a walk the park compared to that.. Or getting buried up to your head next to an antstack!? Would you choose the fallbeil!? I would...
It's no wonder that executioners have been the most despised subhumans of all time. The fact that there is a job that is necessary and someone has to do it is complete bullshit. Killing anyone is not justified. It has been forgotten in the video that the GDR continued its despicable activities for a long time.
Exactly. I'm kinda disappointed that he didn't mention that. The last known person executed by fallbeil in East Germany was Dr. Horst Fischer on July 8th 1966. He was a former Nazi SS extermination camp doctor. I think they likely used it longer though although they claimed they switched to using the Soviet style single shot to the back of the head.
better than hanging, even more so when the person is slowly strangled to death, with the head slowly tearing away from the neck. It could take as much as a half-hour. In some cases, the person being executed would need the help of someone pulling on the legs to ensure the neck broke.
True it was better than hanging, but I think certain people of the day such as the British and Americans just had a strong aversion to seeing someone decapitated, hence why they kept hanging. Honestly France, Britain, and the U.S. should have just used the firing squad in my opinion. For some reason it was only reserved for military offenders, but It's quick and a lot less gruesome than the aforementioned execution methods.
Very true. The Viet Minh and later Viet Cong used to drive around with a guillotine in the back of a truck and stop to carry out summary executions on the spot mainly to strike terror into villagers who may think about dissent. The last verified case of this was around 1960 or so I believe. However it likely went on for much longer because I recall my grandmother actually saying she was an eyewitness to one of the executions well into the 1960's.
I think if I had to choose, outside of assisted death, I would go with this. Guillotine or Fallbeil happens so fast the body wouldn't have the time to process pain. The drop in blood pressure, you would be dead pretty much within seconds. Dare I say it's almost a humane way to die if done right.
If you had a choice, choose nitrogen. It is an inert gas, not toxic, so the body does not react to it. If the nitrogen displaced enough oxygen you would just get sleepy and pass out, no distress whatsoever. Your body does not react to a lack of oxygen, it reacts to a buildup of carbon dioxide. No oxygen=nap time.
There was a noble guillotined during the French Revolution who set it up with his buddy to see how long the head lived after the chop. The single was he'd blink as long as he was conscious. He blinked 16 times, close to a minute. Still better than a lot of other methods.
The Nazis tried "S" Trucks, in which the condemned were locked, and made to suffocate on the vehicle exhaust. The drivers were also getting sick from the fumes, which is one reason it's use was discontinued.
As a physician i tell you that guillotine is the most humane and painless and very quick way ( other than giving a general anesthesia and then decapitating ) , if you want to kill a condemned person. All other ways are very time taking and more suffering to the condemned.
It severs the spinal cord , so no pain and a very quick death , you wouldnt have time for a single thought once it hit you. I would argue the electric chair is more brutal.
@@nicholasbrown4109 lethal injection is different now. They are using a cocktail of hydromorphone (an opiate) and midazolam (a benzodiazepine) so the victim basically goes out in a rush of euphoria. They discontinued using potassium chloride which stops the heart because it was causing noticeable pain and heart attacks. Don't get me wrong though I am actually totally against the death penalty in general. I'm simply saying they have changed the drugs administered and things are going a lot more smoothly for the condemned. I look forward to the day that the United States and my parents country of Vietnam both abolish the death penalty completely. I feel it's long overdue.
LESS than TEN seconds! I would think it would have taken a couple seconds at least! Did they have to drop it twice? Or did they have to give it a final push through the neck by hand?
Remember, these people who start "history channels" are just reading it from Wikipedia or some other source, so sometimes the context is not clear, but I took it to mean 10 seconds from arriving in front of the guillotine to being strapped in and beheaded. I don't imagine they ever had to drop it twice. The blade is very heavy, sharp and slanted to achieve a slicing cut. As for the title; the most brutal method of execution? Not by a long way.
@@tombristowe846 From my observations, just about every video on this channel has "Most Brutal" in the title. Maybe the content creator should invest in a thesaurus, they can`t ALL be the "Most brutal", that accolade belongs to one method and only one.
To be perfectly honest here, if I was to be executed, then I would probably choose the guillotine as my way to die. While the guillotine is bloody and gruesome, it’s also lightning fast. In the US the average lethal injection execution takes nearly 10 minutes to complete. I’d much rather be guillotined in a fraction of a second than suffer a 10 minute lethal injection! Shooting and hanging can also be botched. The guillotine is never botched, and always works flawlessly.
A good modern day execution would be to lock them in a small room and force them to listen repeatedly to any thrash metal record . Painful and slow but less messy .
Actually the Holy Roman Empire who was the predecessor to Germany did too. They called it the Plank and it was around during at least the 16th century. I think the Italians also had a Similar device though I forget the name.
@@kinsmansteve Presumably the same English think it's fun to make a fool of Chinese people who struggle with the "r" sound since it doesn't occur in their language.
The boats. Literally rotting away while being eaten alive by insects in your own filth. Yeah that is pretty much as horrible as it comes. Could take weeks to finally die.
You would only probably be conscious for a couple of seconds so it is almost painless however I think blowing from a gun would be even more quick and painless because I don't think the head that situation would have any residual consciousness
'IF,' - that is in-fact true, and for a split moment or two you actually do retain consciousness, - then the second the very heavy blade comes down and slices your head clean off, - you will experience falling from the apparatus down into the basket that catches you ! WHAT A TRIP !
Once your spinal cord is severed within the brain stem it renders you instantly unconscious and brain dead, so it's an instant death like the neck being broken (functional decapitation in a surgeons terms), or being stabbed or shot in the medulla oblengata. This information was given to me by one of the 3 top experts and surgeons on the planet on the anatomy, function and treatment of the brain and brain stem. He is currently working on a cure for alzheimers.
@@dubes5594 They did. Sometimes there were pre-arranged signals of eye-blinks, etc. But I don't know if any of that stuff ever gave an indication of how long the head lived after it was cut off from the body.
Reichart sounded bad ? Try Vasily Blokhin, "Stalin's executioner". Reckoned to have killled a similar number in a few short weeks, in a career of much more of the same
Blokhin used a pistol though, so it was easier for him to execute far more people since he was simply shooting them in the back of the head. He didn't have to worry about sharpening a blade like with the fallbeil.
Blokhin probably killed tens of thousands of people. Being a Communist he had the approval of most of the world's intellectuals, then and now. Including many of those reading this.
Oh, God, that same dreary voice again, complete lack of understanding the text, constant stressing of the ends of sentences, and poorly edited script, eg repeatedly telling us that the guillotine was used in prisons as if we hadn't heard it just a minute before.
When I visited Germany first the first time, in 1998, in a room where I was staying I found a book about the resistance to the Nazi government by Germans during World War 2. I came across a passage that said that some 30,000 resisters were beheaded by guillotine.
The fallbeil was ordered for every major german prison. A few remain after Germany surrender. In fact the one in Berlins Plotensee was destroyed by bombing after Hitlers assassination attempt, so he and Roland Freisler chose hanging with piano wire instead.
The family of the condemned were most likely not allowed to be present during the execution most executions were either done in public such as in the French revolution or? inside the confines of a prison walls
I’ve often wondered if this method of execution *is* painless because consciousness remains for a few seconds at least and every body nerve to the brain is severed and exposed upon decapitation. The brain could experience agony from the body even though the head has been severed because the pathways to the brain are still there. I hope I’m wrong.
All you got to do is do a little investigating I was at Fort Lewis I wasn't there when I heard this I was long gone out of the military but a few years back I can't remember how many there was some soldiers that were questioning why they had so many Guillotines on the base stored and I guess they're stored all over the place just like these body bags and use plastic caskets that hold 5 to 10 bodies or more and they're all over the place too places government bought up and used for storage facilities out in the boonies so I don't know what's going on folks but I've been looking at all this for the one world order for 23 years and Guillotines have been mentioned a few times so if you will have nothing to do check into that
Gunshot by an expert,my choice.I wonder why hoomans through the years,dreamed up so many torture & killing machines.Doesn't say a lot for the species,does it?
Totally agree. A fee breaths and the condemned is left unconscious, without noticing it. A few minutes more, and he/she is dead. Totally painless. In addition, the gas could have been applied during a lenghty formal prosedure that involves the condemned in order to make him believed he has a few minutes left. It would probably reduce the anxeity and fear most will feel.
Everyone saying how quick and painless it is are forgetting that your head would be conscious for a little bit afterwards. Ive heard of some reports of up to nearly 2 minutes for some people
@@mikev4621 Don't know if truebut there r reports of Anne Boleyn's eyes moving & Mary of Scots lips moving after the executions.Or maybe it was lips in both cases.
Do you have any idea hownlong the head stays alive after being detached in sich a way, from the body? It is not quick or painless and the victim is totally aware their head is falling into a dark smelly bucket with no way to break the fall. Ghastly thing i would say.
@@dubes5594 dig around and see if anyone ever tested the facts. I cannot recall the mans name but he was headed to the device and told the people he would blink as long as he could. And apparently he did several times. His face even blushed when it was slapped.
@@JamesThomas-gg6il Did you ever bang your head off a shelf or a door? I think after being cut off from the neck down, you'd be too stunned to think of having said you'd blink for the onlookers 'for as long as you could'. I strongly suspect that this type of story (like the beheaded person having blinked twice to answer 'yes' or once for 'no') are just macabre inventions.
Why is it the most brutal method in all of History? So I got through this until 6 mins. It explains in great length that Nazis used the guillotine but it doesn't state once why this is more brutal than beheading by the Sword or Axe, being burnt alive at the stake or breaking someone on the wheel. It doesn't explain why being roasted in the brazen bull is more humane than being beheaded by a falling 70 kg heavy blade. And that's what the headline says: Most brutal Method in HISTORY. But even if we stick to the modern day: The allied used the method of hanging. Properly made it breaks your neck and suffocates the brain within minutes. Depending on your constitution and the place of the knot you can be wide awake through this. When being behaeaded the sudden drop of blood pressure causes an immediate shock to the brain, that will send you into a catatonic state. That in turn means by the time your brain shuts down for good you are long gone. More brutal than hanging by the neck. I leave it to the audience to ponder: Why is it called: To be hanged by the neck till deatch and not being beheaded till death? And with this I come back to my entry question: Most brutal in history?
Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans and their friend Chrisoph Probst were all guillotined in the space of five minutes. I don't know why the attention always focusses on Sophie - the others were just as brave and ended up just as dead.
A woman's premature death is always much more attention-grabbing, of course
Men die more bravely than women
I think the story of sophie was particularly popular back during the war and that’s caused her to be more known today. Plus a young girl being executed will be stronger propaganda
They all lost their heads over the issue so why make a case out of it , get on with your lives.
Because women are givers of life, we give birth, so there is something inherently more perverted about executing a woman. Women also rarely commit violent crimes, so a violent death also seems very out of place.
Can we take a moment to appreciate how you have voice and pace that can make something so brutal and macabre educational and interesting?
Not.
Odd though in that he says "inside" when "in" is normal.
IMO he does not have any idea of how to present a commentary.
I suppose some might call it macabre, but there was no more brutality involved in use of the guillotine than any other execution method!
@@hcrunHow so - what's wrong with this: _"This specific fallbeil was destroyed at the end of the war, but it's believed it may of actually just been hidden and it's recently resurfaced in a Bavarian museum."_
The guillotine, developed by the medical doctor who lent it his name, was considered a more humane method of execution than the previous means of using a heavy sword or an axe. There are a number of reports of botched and needlessly gruesome executions when the executioner missed the neck or didn't bring down the axe hard enough, needing to land blow after blow, until the head finally severed.
As far as being humane, the only form of execution that was used alternatively was death by hanging, but only as far as the drop method goes. Regular hanging is just a slow and agonizing strangulation. The problem with hanging is that is requires an experienced chap like Albert Pierpoint to carry it out. Ideally, the fall should break the person's neck, making death instantaneous. Too short a rope leads to death by strangulation. Too long, it might tear the head from the body.
As hard as it may sound, an unexpected bullet to the back of the head is as quick and painless a death as anybody could hope for.
You know too much about this subject 😧
@@aussie8114 My morbid, garbage-pit mind.
@@jdrancho1864 Didn't Saddam Hussein's head come off, when he was hanged? (At least you know he's dead-----). Albert Pierrepoint wasn't around for that one.
According to the Wikipedia entry on Dr. Guillotine, he " was a French physician, politician, and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out death penalties in France, as a less painful method of execution than existing methods. Although he did not invent the guillotine and opposed the death penalty, his name became an eponym for it. The actual inventor of the prototype was a man named Tobias Schmidt, working with the king's physician, Antoine Louis.
@@malcolmledger176 Thx for the info. I was working from memory, and I always thought Guillotine was the inventor of the device, and therefore justified in naming it after him.
It was cutting edge technology for its time.
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Only another 243 "chopping" days to Christmas
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..even behead of it's time!
Death would be quick and relatively painless. The fear and anxiety the condemned would experience prior to execution would go to the overall brutality of the method. It was too easy
How quick? It was at first thought to be instant but people started thinking maybe not. One soon to be guillotined scientist said to his friend I’ll blink after, count them and he blinked 14 times.
Sure beats being hanged. If done correctly, hanging is quick and painless. If not, the victim is slowly strangled to death.
Well, especially when we consider that those who were executed by the Nazi Germany for anti-Nazi things would be handled far more brutaly by the Gestapo during the investigation... But those people were heroes, so easy death is the best we can wish for them...
Executions are never easy,some executioners suffer mental and emotional break downs as a result of their job ,some even committed suicide.
@@kennethbeaton8391 in the US doctors won’t carry out lethal injections meaning sometimes they’re done by prison staff who don’t have medical expertise and often have a relationship with the condemned.
Actually it wasn't brutal at all, it was quick and to the point. Unless you're considering all of the blood that the heart pumped out of the body after the head was severed.
This guys voice is brutal though :(
@@edt8535 Its really annoying huh
@@HydraulicJack Most of us prefer to stick around. However, if I had to go, I can think of many, many worse ways to go. I can also think of many, many better ways to go.
It is not the act itself but the preparation, the walk and the image.
@@petesmith9472 I guess that is true of any execution. It must suck to know that you are walking to your own murder.
Johann Reichardt was an executioner during the American hangings at Lansberg prison after the war. It is said that he took advice from Albert Pierpoint on the most humane way of performing a hanging. At Lansberg, the Nazi war criminals were hanged using the standard drop method. Reichardt was not allowed to use the British measured drop method, but films taken of the executions showed him placing the noose at the left hand side, while the American hangman placed it behind the prisoner. Reichardt performed these duties in morning dress, and was known to be a stickler for ensuring that his executions were solemn and dignified.
Like Pierpoint, Reichardt was a thoroughgoing professional who cared mostly for doing a proper job. Both would be excellent subjects for a Fortress episode.
Johann Reichardt was an unqualified butcher who lied to get the job and never did it properly
If you have ever seen videos of the "hangings" in Iran, there is one where the condemned are placed on top of a bus which is then driven away. The short drop style. One of the people tries jumping into the air to make the drop longer and death or oblivion quicker. They knew how gruesome the short drop/strangulation, method really is.
@@wylie5525 executions in Iran are absolutely disgusting and especially because they aren't just executing murderers. They are executing people just for being gay, disagreeing with the government, or harmless drug offenses. I really wish the Iranian people were able to topple the horrific regime they have been living under since 1979.
This device would come in handy considering the recent global politics...
We could keep it busy for months in the USA...
@@scottw5315 let alone the satanic EU
@@scottw5315 United States is among the few developed countries still retain capital punishment.
There's nothing worse than being punished for something you did not do.
francoise bloch serazin ;french resistance heroin; was executed by fallbeil in hamburg 1943 at 29 ; ingeneer she was artificer of the parisian resistance in 1940/1942 rip
It's worse for a criminal to NOT be punished for what he did.
@@SteffiReitsch I think it would be worse for the next victim if the criminal wasn't punished.
Its bad, but I can think of a lot of worse things. Like, I'd rather be executed unfairly by guillotine than die a slow, painful death by cancer
@@SteffiReitsch Punishing an innocent person for nothing is better than not punishing a criminal? That's about the most retarded thing I've read in a while.
The youngest to be beheaded was Helmuth Hubener, who was just 17 when he was guillotined for distributing anti-war leaflets around Hamburg.
And Youngest to be Dismembered was Hong Tian Guifu, the Son of Hong Xiu Quan, the Paladin Lord of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. He was arrested after Nanking was collapsed by Qing and Got Dismembered with 1500 cuts in 15.
@@tomvhresvelg9286 very interesting, thank you! 😊
Don't forget Sophie and Hans Scholl, beheaded for the same reason.
@@emzybenzey China's Dismemberment by thousand cut is even terrible than beheading. And Most of the Paladins of Taiping heavenly Kingdom have been martyred by such terrible way because of Angry Manchus after the Tianjing was Collapsed.
@@tomvhresvelg9286 nice !
If you have to kill someone surely this is amongst the most humane? Okay it looks horrific and decapitation itself makes most of us squirm but in terms of pain inflicted and length of execution this must be one of the best methods? If capital punishment exists it should be as fast and painless as possible, the condemned persons punishment is death, not tortured to death.
Unfortunately, decapitation doesn't result in instant death, as numerous accounts from the French Revolution, and reports from the occasional gruesome accident, show.
Also, experiments with rats showed that, rather than the 10 seconds after which humans are supposed to lose consciousness, the rats' brains showed activity consistent with consciousness up to 29 seconds after decapitation, so no, I would argue that this is far from a humane method of killing.
A bullet to the head, or carbon monoxide poisoning would be preferable.
True indeed
Seen footage of Frances final Guillotine
It was brutality quick and truly shocking
Now those images are yet to fade away
Have you seen Daesh executions?!
Where did you see that?
@@stovepipe9er I saw it on the internet years ago.Brief description...He had his hands tied behind his back and was laid flat on his stomach.As soon as the blade decapitated him,his body was pushed by a pulley system into a coffin.The footage was secretly recorded.
That must have been Eugene Weidmans execution in 1939 . The last public guillotining .
That must have been the last public execution of Eugene Weidmann in June 1939.
Drawing and quartering, boiling alive, the bronze bull... Yeah, going to say *No* to the guillotine being the most brutal method of execution.
Please NOT the bronze bull , in fact don`t even say bronze bull , thats enough to scare me to death
@@philipchurchill6508the inventor got what he deserved, hahaha.
No words on the ongoing use in East Germany after WWII? Is was used in Leipzig were you can visit the execution chamber in a normal multi flat building.
Those where not ewul nazis that this clip is most about..
Correct, until at least the mid 1950's, then a bullet to the back of the head (Soviet style) became the order of the next few decades.
@@nukkinfuts6550 no, they were awfull communists. Though nazis were awfull too!
Bring it back. And watch the murder rate plummet. Criminals get every consideration while their victims cry out for justice.
That Is is what is called the Canadian Justice System .Canadian criminals call it The Canadian Just Us System.
Looks like a good way to deal with BLM and ANTIFA.
The last time the Guillotine was used was in 1977.
That is known of
@@NotAWhiteBadger Halifax gibbet 1280 still available
One would _think_ it is quick and painless, but then we have no idea how long it really takes for the head to die, and what it experiences during this time
If the brain takes 3 minutes to start dying, i reckon you'd still see and hear and it would fade out .
I read an account of a French doctor questioning the severed head of a nobleman who was guillotined, asking the victim to blink twice for yes and once for no.
He was able to ask seven questions before it became unresponsive, although the final two or three had to be repeated as it faded. The second question was "are you in pain?" and the response was an emphatic yes.
i don't believe it - i think the catasthophic loss of blood pressure would render the person immediately unconcious and any asking of questions is like asking a frog to twitch it's legs twice etc etc. there is of course only one way to find out and so if people think differently that is okay with me. i'm not gonna lose my head over it
@@billynomates920 Have you read the reply from Basil Thomas just before yours? Even if it is quick, it still takes time for the blood to drain from the head, for nerves to stop responding, for brain activity to seize, it is not immediate.
@@Hannodb1961 yes i did and i still say the french doctor was either lucky or lying about the response - there is no way auto-sympathetic nervous response is consciousness. think about the effects of g-force, think about standing up too quickly sometimes, neither of these are anywhere near as drastic a loss in blood pressure as having your head cut off but both result in blackout and lack of concious response.
The device is less brutal than the Electric Chair or Gas Chamber. A quick chop vs. Literally Frying a human with electricity is much preferred. For brutality, how putting a human in a steel chamber and suffocating them with a gas that blisters the lungs. How about botching a hanging, the knot is supposed to break the neck, but what if it does not, or the neck breaking does not "kill" the prisoner?
Why they can't just sit people in a similar chamber & adjust the airflow for increasingly pure nitrogen over the course of say a minute, if you *must* have capital punishment. That way you just "grey out" & lose consciousness to death by hypoxia. Swiss are phasing it in for voluntary euthanasia I think. Slightly comparable to a few air accidents where cabin pressure didn't stabilise to 10,000 feet equiv. automatically, & O2 mask didn't auto-release, pilots didn't detect the problem due to mental debilitation
When used properly the chair is supposed to knock the victim unconscious with the first jolt and then stop the heart with the second jolt. Although many idiots using it either had no clue what they were doing or actually wanted to make the victim suffer. But yes even though its only a secondary method of execution in some states these days and only if the condemned chooses it over lethal injection I still think it should be completely abolished. But I'm anti-capital punishment anyway.
Using the AXE was FAR MORE BRUTAL than a Guillotine!
Yep and actually the Nazis were still performing axe executions as late as 1935. They executed two women, Benita von Falkenhayn and Renate von Natzmer this way for espionage for Poland. Apparently there was such an uproar from Britain, France, and the U.S. that Hitler immediately banned axe and block executions and put an order in for a dozen fallbeil to be used throughout Germany. Pretty weird though that Hitler even gave a damn about public relations considering everything else he did.
@@winnienguyen4420 Yeah,...funny how he was sensitive to the method of execution...I guess he wanted to bring Germany up to speed! LOL!
Christopher Lee was in the crowd when the last public execution by guillotine was carried out, in 1939.
You beat me to it lol .....
How could he *not* have been...
Was also the only cast members of LOTR to meet JR Tolkien
Obsessed by sharp blades perhaps explains the sword collecting
In 1989 Christopher Lee played the role of the executioner Sanson in the film La Révolution Française. There are excerpts from the film on RUclips including one of him executing Saint Just and Robespierre.
Thanks for an interesting lessons.
Fun fact - Horror movie icon Christopher Lee witnessed an actual beheading by Guillotine when he was 14.
Not much fun for the victim who lost he,s head while those around kept theirs .
Your wrong last time used in france 1977
@@johnirwin2163 I think you responded to the wrong comment.
It was the Weidman execution in June 1939. Last time it was publicly used.
This was in 1939 so Chrostopher was 17
US law prohibits the mutilation of a corpse. Beheading is considered vile, and unnecessarily brutal, and it mutilates the remains of a person executed. Only the US Military was allowed an exemption for death by firing squad. Gas Chambers and Lethal Injection are the prime ways of execution now in the USA. Some states do still have the electric chair still. That too is not a clean way to execute a prisoner.
The firing squad is still a choice for a condemned person in Utah. It goes along with the early Mormon belief that atonement for murder and a couple of other sins cannot be achieved unless there is blood spilled. Gas chambers may be used, but they have been converted into places where lethal injections are performed, gas is no longer used.
@@wylie5525 Only a few developed countries still have capital punishment including US.
@@wylie5525 Yes. Because gas chambers were synonym with brutal era of Nazi. That is why this method of execution no longer used.
@@user-kx3pj7ch5c Politicians always have tendency to live as long as possible. We can see many politicians in US have longer lifespan. 🤔🤔🤔
The inhuman electric chair ot poison injctions or being hung by a-non professional were really brutal and spending years in the death row is inhuman too.
If you can't do the execution method, dont do the crime.
Then there's the Japanese "you never know if this your last day" uncertainty. Thankfully they don't hang many people. I suppose it's a bit like life when you get old, never know if/when a heart-attack's round the corner
@@daffyduk77 In japan a majority of the death sentenced choose to die by the sword, those that get to choose..
@@nukkinfuts6550 Did the Japanese ever hung the guy who killed 191 people by sending poison gas the the subway air ducts. I never heard of his death but boy that dude deserved it!
@@nukkinfuts6550 The fate of Shinzo Abe killer is still unknown.
Its said that Louis XVI actually suggested the angled blade having been fascinated by mechanics and was named after a committee member in France creating it. Social Justice was behind part of the thinking since the condemned were often executed by various means and would made everyone under it equal. Indeed beheading was often for the elite like Ann Boleyn or King Charles 1st, where hanging or whatever ended the condemned in the region was for those below their class. Reichart was sparred a War Crime Trail because he never left Germany for executions or carried one out under the authority of the regimes courts. He did participate in some hangings but quit since the US Army wasn't as skilled as the British and likely wouldnof used a Falbiel glady instead if allowed. The notorious Sgt Woods the US Army's hangman enjoyed the suffering he caused by placing the noose incorrectly and met his end doing electrical work he too had not skill in but did anyway...
Good to hear about Sgt. Wood. Death should never be a pleasant experience for others.
Why must this narrator read EVERY CLAUSE as though it ends with a period?!
Every sentence is read the same way over and over. It's a shame because the content is good. I just find it off-putting.
It seems less brutal than most other methods, to be honest. It also seems that it would be harder to screw up, although anything can happen, of course. If I had to go out execution-style, I'd take this over the chair, hanging or the gas chamber.
No, death is not instantaneous. The brain will slowly fade into unconsciousness as the oxygen inside is used up. How much pain you feel from a massive cut is debatable unless someone has measured it somehow. I'm not brave enough to look it up. 😮
@HARRY KOSSEC Execution still held in Communist countries during 1980s. Romanian dictator, Ceausescu and his wife were executed by firing squad in December 1989.
Im anti-death penalty all the way, but I really think the current method of lethal injection using hydromorphone (an opiate) and midazolam (a benzodiazepine) is best. The condemned just goes out in a surge of euphoria. This drug cocktail is different from the previous one where they were using potassium chloride to stop the heart. That is why many previous lethal injection executions were botched and I hope they don't reintroduce potassium chloride ever again.
@@winnienguyen4420carbon monoxide is THE best, I will do a Google search to see why it isn't used for executions.
Enjoyed the video, thanks.
GOBS OF FUN !😁
This blokes voice sounds so robotic
I know it is irritating to listen to, so monotone, thank you for pointing it out, made me laugh as I have often thought the same
No living peoples have any death experience. Only the dead peoples know how painful death is. 😟😟😟
That looks like a pain in the neck..
Definitely a close shave,.
One normally associates the 3rd Reich with the holocaust and massacres such as Lidice & Oraddur and the well known reprisals after the July 20th Plot, all the histories of the 3rd Reich I have read barely mention the other thousands of victims excuted behind prison walls across Germany and even a few other places. Thankyou for this grim reminder of yet another brutal aspect of the Nazi regime.
"One normally associates the 3rd Reich with the holocaust..." Speak for yourself, dummy.
Not only the Nazis, but the Communist East Germans also used the fallbeil for political dissidents well into the 1960's.
Jolly old England carried out mass murders in Ireland in the 1920's. And fired on Dublin using battleships. Of course killing Irish Catholics doesn't excite the same condemnation. Ir any other of the native peoples the British butchered in the course of the 20th Century.
Thought they might clean the blade a bit better .you could get a nasty infection from that 🙂
Yes, a nasty infection is more worrying than that you are about to die 🤔
Actually, they used sterilized needles for lethal injection because a stay of execution has been called at the last minute and you wouldn't want them to get an infection and die from it.
Because that would be negligence.
The American legal system is insane
It didn't take less than 10 seconds, but a fraction of a second. Probably the most humane method there could be.
If the brain takes 3 minutes to start dying, would you still see and hear until it faded out? Mary Queen of Scots was said to still be speaking her prayers and they did an experiment with a French prisoner, Longuie, where his eyes followed a man around the room for a minute.
beheaded cannot speak as you need to blow air through the vocal chords. But your lungs are inaccessible at that moment.
Few minutes is time when irreversible damage to brain cells starts. Doesn't mean that person is consciousness. Brain is said to have close to zero reserve of "fuel" thus when blood flow is stopped, it in moments run out of supply and stops to work.
@mungo7136 yeah, makes sense. I didn't mean she spoke, no vocal chords, but apparently her mouth kept moving. But could be death thro twitches. I don't think they'd be conscious for long, although tests with french prisoner Longe Gui showed he was responsive for 60 seconds and could respond to commands.
Leave it to the Germans to take a crude but effective device, make it out of metal using precision machine tools and use precision bearings for a smooth, gliding action, with a guard to catch the splatter, (neatness counts!)
Basically an assembly line of death.
If it's a choice between being drawn and quartered and this I would take this anytime..this is quick
A messy, gory way to execute someone . You would have needed a strong stomach to attend an execution using a gullotine more so than any other method . Quick but very brutal .
Gory, yes. Messy, no. The blade falls in less than a second and severs the head very quickly.
A gunshot to the head is pretty messy too. Depends if you’re bothered more by blood or brain matter.
Compared to what? The electric chair? Getting your head shaved, buttplug inserted etc!? Getting boiled alive!? Placed in cold water then see the flames for an hour or so!? You got pretty piss poor fantasy if you this this is the worst method.. I donmt know the name in english, the method where you break all the bones in your body one after another!? The Fallbeil seems like a walk the park compared to that.. Or getting buried up to your head next to an antstack!? Would you choose the fallbeil!? I would...
Great lesson in History.🙋
It's no wonder that executioners have been the most despised subhumans of all time. The fact that there is a job that is necessary and someone has to do it is complete bullshit. Killing anyone is not justified. It has been forgotten in the video that the GDR continued its despicable activities for a long time.
You forgot to mention that east Germany still used it a long time after the war ended specific in Leipzig!
Exactly. I'm kinda disappointed that he didn't mention that. The last known person executed by fallbeil in East Germany was Dr. Horst Fischer on July 8th 1966. He was a former Nazi SS extermination camp doctor. I think they likely used it longer though although they claimed they switched to using the Soviet style single shot to the back of the head.
Yes, and they executed people with axe or hatchet too in East Germany
better than hanging, even more so when the person is slowly strangled to death, with the head slowly tearing away from the neck. It could take as much as a half-hour. In some cases, the person being executed would need the help of someone pulling on the legs to ensure the neck broke.
True it was better than hanging, but I think certain people of the day such as the British and Americans just had a strong aversion to seeing someone decapitated, hence why they kept hanging. Honestly France, Britain, and the U.S. should have just used the firing squad in my opinion. For some reason it was only reserved for military offenders, but It's quick and a lot less gruesome than the aforementioned execution methods.
Still in use in Vietnam up to just before the start of the American/Vietnam war. I believe.
Very true. The Viet Minh and later Viet Cong used to drive around with a guillotine in the back of a truck and stop to carry out summary executions on the spot mainly to strike terror into villagers who may think about dissent. The last verified case of this was around 1960 or so I believe. However it likely went on for much longer because I recall my grandmother actually saying she was an eyewitness to one of the executions well into the 1960's.
@@winnienguyen4420 Was also still in use in the prison in Saigon by the ARVN forces/government well into the war.
I think if I had to choose, outside of assisted death, I would go with this. Guillotine or Fallbeil happens so fast the body wouldn't have the time to process pain. The drop in blood pressure, you would be dead pretty much within seconds. Dare I say it's almost a humane way to die if done right.
If you had a choice, choose nitrogen. It is an inert gas, not toxic, so the body does not react to it. If the nitrogen displaced enough oxygen you would just get sleepy and pass out, no distress whatsoever. Your body does not react to a lack of oxygen, it reacts to a buildup of carbon dioxide. No oxygen=nap time.
There was a noble guillotined during the French Revolution who set it up with his buddy to see how long the head lived after the chop. The single was he'd blink as long as he was conscious. He blinked 16 times, close to a minute. Still better than a lot of other methods.
The massive instantaneous drop in blood pressure causes virtually immediate loss of consciousness.
@@thomaswinston5142 Nope. There are examples which refute that.
To quote Gilbert and Sullivan: “a short, sharp shock.” From The Mikado.
I have one in my basement. I don't let the children play with it, though.
Could you cover Genrikh Yagoda, please? Creator of Nazino Island and the murderous Gas Vans.
no
That would be great I have to admit
@@explodeygames7585 He was truly vile.
The Nazis tried "S" Trucks, in which the condemned were locked, and made to suffocate on the vehicle exhaust. The drivers were also getting sick from the fumes, which is one reason it's use was discontinued.
As a physician i tell you that guillotine is the most humane and painless and very quick way ( other than giving a general anesthesia and then decapitating ) , if you want to kill a condemned person. All other ways are very time taking and more suffering to the condemned.
It severs the spinal cord , so no pain and a very quick death , you wouldnt have time for a single thought once it hit you. I would argue the electric chair is more brutal.
And lethal injection is even worse than the electric chair. Firing squad or guillotine are relatively humane, its just messy
@@nicholasbrown4109 lethal injection is different now. They are using a cocktail of hydromorphone (an opiate) and midazolam (a benzodiazepine) so the victim basically goes out in a rush of euphoria. They discontinued using potassium chloride which stops the heart because it was causing noticeable pain and heart attacks. Don't get me wrong though I am actually totally against the death penalty in general. I'm simply saying they have changed the drugs administered and things are going a lot more smoothly for the condemned. I look forward to the day that the United States and my parents country of Vietnam both abolish the death penalty completely. I feel it's long overdue.
LESS than TEN seconds! I would think it would have taken a couple seconds at least! Did they have to drop it twice? Or did they have to give it a final push through the neck by hand?
Right, seems like they should have said 1/10th of a second.
Guessing it includes strapping them into position.
Remember, these people who start "history channels" are just reading it from Wikipedia or some other source, so sometimes the context is not clear, but I took it to mean 10 seconds from arriving in front of the guillotine to being strapped in and beheaded. I don't imagine they ever had to drop it twice. The blade is very heavy, sharp and slanted to achieve a slicing cut. As for the title; the most brutal method of execution? Not by a long way.
@@tombristowe846 From my observations, just about every video on this channel has "Most Brutal" in the title. Maybe the content creator should invest in a thesaurus, they can`t ALL be the "Most brutal", that accolade belongs to one method and only one.
@@darren25061965 I get the impression that "History's most brutal execution method" is a series showing various execution methods.
To be perfectly honest here, if I was to be executed, then I would probably choose the guillotine as my way to die. While the guillotine is bloody and gruesome, it’s also lightning fast. In the US the average lethal injection execution takes nearly 10 minutes to complete. I’d much rather be guillotined in a fraction of a second than suffer a 10 minute lethal injection! Shooting and hanging can also be botched. The guillotine is never botched, and always works flawlessly.
Carbon monoxide for me please.
Heads up please.
Do you realize that you have a computer-robotic quality to your voice? Its quite annoying which is a shame because your content is very good.
We haven't really come that far have we ?
Nope. Unfortunately, you are correct about that.
A good modern day execution would be to lock them in a small room and force them to listen repeatedly to any thrash metal record . Painful and slow but less messy .
It's just an ordinary guillotine but bearing a German name due to where it was built. The French and Scottish had similar devices for centuries.
Actually the Holy Roman Empire who was the predecessor to Germany did too. They called it the Plank and it was around during at least the 16th century. I think the Italians also had a Similar device though I forget the name.
No more brutal than any other method of execution. In fact, it was quick and painless. The way he mispronounces Guillotine, now that's painful.
Same goes for the "Third Rike" and "Johann Rie-hart". What is it with English people that they can't pronounce "ch" properly?
@@davebarclay4429 Well, some of us can. But it's not a sound that occurs in English, so many don't know how.
@@kinsmansteve Presumably the same English think it's fun to make a fool of Chinese people who struggle with the "r" sound since it doesn't occur in their language.
As a torture, the Persians have this beat hands down with "The Boats." Nothing could be more brutal.
Wasn't it the romans who sawed people in half from the crotch upwards?
@@Trebor74 I think that was the persians too.
The boats. Literally rotting away while being eaten alive by insects in your own filth. Yeah that is pretty much as horrible as it comes. Could take weeks to finally die.
The French Ancien Regime was burning, boiling, roasting, drowning, and breaking on the wheel before King Louis 16th approved the guillotine in 1791.
You would only probably be conscious for a couple of seconds so it is almost painless however I think blowing from a gun would be even more quick and painless because I don't think the head that situation would have any residual consciousness
'IF,' - that is in-fact true, and for a split moment
or two you actually do retain consciousness, -
then the second the very heavy blade comes down and slices your head clean
off, - you will experience falling from the apparatus down into the basket that catches you !
WHAT A TRIP !
Possibly..but we will never know
Once your spinal cord is severed within the brain stem it renders you instantly unconscious and brain dead, so it's an instant death like the neck being broken (functional decapitation in a surgeons terms), or being stabbed or shot in the medulla oblengata. This information was given to me by one of the 3 top experts and surgeons on the planet on the anatomy, function and treatment of the brain and brain stem. He is currently working on a cure for alzheimers.
@@emzybenzeyIn all of history, I would imagine someone must have tried to talk to the head after the chop.
@@dubes5594 They did. Sometimes there were pre-arranged signals of eye-blinks, etc. But I don't know if any of that stuff ever gave an indication of how long the head lived after it was cut off from the body.
Fast and simple, no nonsense death. Far better than many other forms.
Reichart sounded bad ? Try Vasily Blokhin, "Stalin's executioner". Reckoned to have killled a similar number in a few short weeks, in a career of much more of the same
Blokhin used a pistol though, so it was easier for him to execute far more people since he was simply shooting them in the back of the head. He didn't have to worry about sharpening a blade like with the fallbeil.
Blokhin probably killed tens of thousands of people. Being a Communist he had the approval of most of the world's intellectuals, then and now. Including many of those reading this.
Oh, God, that same dreary voice again, complete lack of understanding the text, constant stressing of the ends of sentences, and poorly edited script, eg repeatedly telling us that the guillotine was used in prisons as if we hadn't heard it just a minute before.
I'd say this pales when compared to the Garrote Vil...that was brutal and slow
Easiest to wash head buckets says it all about how brutalised they were at this time.
I like the one with the built-in metal basket and blood trough
The Tegel falbeil is what it's referred to as, it was THE Nazi guillotine.
Being steel-framed, one wonders if the Fallbeil suffered from rust. It's doubtful they would have used stainless steel.
Why not show the last use of the Guillotine so people can see how cruel humanity can actually be .
Yeah, RUclips who won't permit a mousetrap in action without censoring, will definitely have no issues with someone being beheaded by Guillotine... 🙄
Let's talk about the serial killer who murdered 6 people who was executed that day. This is true cruelty, and he deserved his fate.
Just a drop in the bucket!
When I visited Germany first the first time, in 1998, in a room where I was staying I found a book about the resistance to the Nazi government by Germans during World War 2. I came across a passage that said that some 30,000 resisters were beheaded by guillotine.
Yeah and there was no book about the millions of german women raped during the last month of the war to go along with it!?
@@nukkinfuts6550 I didn't have the time to read the whole book, so I don't know the full extent of what all it covered.
The fallbeil was ordered for every major german prison. A few remain after Germany surrender.
In fact the one in Berlins Plotensee
was destroyed by bombing after
Hitlers assassination attempt, so
he and Roland Freisler chose hanging with piano wire instead.
How about a carbon fiber submersible? I heard recently that that was quick.
There are a lot worse ways to die. This was quick. Horrible for the family of the executed to see though.
The family of the condemned were most likely not allowed to be present during the execution most executions were either done in public such as in the French revolution or? inside the confines of a prison walls
Let us not lose our heads over something like this!
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Thank you for sharing
?? ever hear of punctuation ?? 🤔
Ppl seem to forget that as long as there oxygenated blood in the brain, a person is conscious.
From what I read, if your heart skips two beats you pass out, three beats and you die. That blood must circulate to maintain consciousness.
I would think this is the best method of execution, immediate death, no pain, and quick
I don’t think this is brutal. Very quick, painless method.
I’ve often wondered if this method of execution *is* painless because consciousness remains for a few seconds at least and every body nerve to the brain is severed and exposed upon decapitation. The brain could experience agony from the body even though the head has been severed because the pathways to the brain are still there. I hope I’m wrong.
@@sorryofficer1 A few seconds of pain followed by an eternity of peace 💀
@@sorryofficer1 No living peoples has any experience of death. Only the dead know how painful death is.
How do you know?
@@mimfi Maybe he now living his second life. He probably was executed during his previous life. 😃😃
Sounds like an honest living.
Turn up the volume, get a man to narrate, and learn to enunciate your words without so much of an accent...hard to listen to.
Superb.
They should bring it back for child killers etc.
Communists as well.
I wonder how long it would take to sand someone's head off using sandpaper?
Grinder, 80 grit, not long!
Guess it was not the last time we heard about Madame G. She will be back very soon, to have a good harvest in old Europe.
East Germany used it aswell.
All you got to do is do a little investigating I was at Fort Lewis I wasn't there when I heard this I was long gone out of the military but a few years back I can't remember how many there was some soldiers that were questioning why they had so many Guillotines on the base stored and I guess they're stored all over the place just like these body bags and use plastic caskets that hold 5 to 10 bodies or more and they're all over the place too places government bought up and used for storage facilities out in the boonies so I don't know what's going on folks but I've been looking at all this for the one world order for 23 years and Guillotines have been mentioned a few times so if you will have nothing to do check into that
Don’t you just love Humans..
Most brutal execution method?
Hardly. It was a very quick and painless method.
interesting
thx
My first choice would be nitrogen anoxia, this would be the second.
Gunshot by an expert,my choice.I wonder why hoomans through the years,dreamed up so many torture & killing machines.Doesn't say a lot for the species,does it?
Totally agree. A fee breaths and the condemned is left unconscious, without noticing it. A few minutes more, and he/she is dead. Totally painless. In addition, the gas could have been applied during a lenghty formal prosedure that involves the condemned in order to make him believed he has a few minutes left. It would probably reduce the anxeity and fear most will feel.
Everyone saying how quick and painless it is are forgetting that your head would be conscious for a little bit afterwards. Ive heard of some reports of up to nearly 2 minutes for some people
reports from the heads themselves?
@@mikev4621 reports from the executioners, bystanders and from a doctor who was allowed to run experiments on recently beheaded criminals. Its proven.
@@mikev4621 Don't know if truebut there r reports of Anne Boleyn's eyes moving & Mary of Scots lips moving after the executions.Or maybe it was lips in both cases.
@@susanmccormick6022 I know that chickens can actually run around the farmyard when their heads are cut off -muscle reflexes
@@mikev4621 Euwww,Michael did u have to mention that?I am going to feed my feral & hope to avoid all the snails.
Remain us ..how 'evil' human can do.
Why brutal? It’s over very fast, unlike so many other methods.
Your brain is still alive after being beheaded
Do you have any idea hownlong the head stays alive after being detached in sich a way, from the body? It is not quick or painless and the victim is totally aware their head is falling into a dark smelly bucket with no way to break the fall. Ghastly thing i would say.
The blood pressure in the brain would drop to nothing causing an instant blackout....I would assume.
@@dubes5594 dig around and see if anyone ever tested the facts. I cannot recall the mans name but he was headed to the device and told the people he would blink as long as he could. And apparently he did several times. His face even blushed when it was slapped.
@@JamesThomas-gg6il I remember that story too....creepy stuff.
@@JamesThomas-gg6il That's what we wanna hear.
@@JamesThomas-gg6il Did you ever bang your head off a shelf or a door? I think after being cut off from the neck down, you'd be too stunned to think of having said you'd blink for the onlookers 'for as long as you could'. I strongly suspect that this type of story (like the beheaded person having blinked twice to answer 'yes' or once for 'no') are just macabre inventions.
Of course the Germans improved on French engineering!
Probably designed by Ferdinand Porshe maker of VW and King Tiger.
Why is it the most brutal method in all of History?
So I got through this until 6 mins. It explains in great length that Nazis used the guillotine but it doesn't state once why this is more brutal than beheading by the Sword or Axe, being burnt alive at the stake or breaking someone on the wheel. It doesn't explain why being roasted in the brazen bull is more humane than being beheaded by a falling 70 kg heavy blade.
And that's what the headline says: Most brutal Method in HISTORY.
But even if we stick to the modern day: The allied used the method of hanging. Properly made it breaks your neck and suffocates the brain within minutes. Depending on your constitution and the place of the knot you can be wide awake through this. When being behaeaded the sudden drop of blood pressure causes an immediate shock to the brain, that will send you into a catatonic state. That in turn means by the time your brain shuts down for good you are long gone.
More brutal than hanging by the neck.
I leave it to the audience to ponder: Why is it called: To be hanged by the neck till deatch and not being beheaded till death?
And with this I come back to my entry question: Most brutal in history?
More humane than present methods such as hanging, firing squad, gas chambers and lethal injections.
Its the more bloodless execution method ever used.
We need a couple of them in DC.....
I'd rather be burned at the stake than have my head chopped off... because a hot stake is better than a cold chop...
The French also used the guillotine in Vietnam.
And in all of their colonies from Algeria to Indochina.
I think I would drop dead if I ever saw a quillotine and was about to die on it. Which was one of the ideas. Namely to rise terror.
So which form of execution is not brutal? You either agree with executions or you don’t.
Bring it back !!!
You want test???😃