How is it offensive? It's just a body' Woman appears NAKED on Good Morning Britain as she hits back at people who find nude sunbathing 'selfish and triggering'

 

How is it offensive? It's just a body' Woman appears NAKED on Good Morning Britain as she hits back at people who find nude sunbathing 'selfish and triggering'

A woman who appeared naked on Good Morning Britain has sparked fierce debate after hitting back at people who find nude sunbathing 'selfish and triggering'.

Naturist Helen Berriman, from the UK, was invited on the ITV show this morning to discuss the topic with brand and culture expert Nick Ede.

She is a a freelance naked lifestyle writer, journalist and also a Women in Naturism Officer for British Naturism, a UK national Naturist organisation.

The pair were discussing an incident which recently took place at Hampstead Heath pond in North London where staff called the police on a naked sunbather who refused to cover themselves up.

To argue her point more effectively, Helen decided to appear on the panel - hosted by former MP Ed Balls and Charlotte Hawkins - in the nude, meaning ITV had to blur out her naked chest. 

She said: 'With all those things going on in the world at the moment, are we really that bothered by a nude body sunbathing in a quiet corner of a park?'

'There's so much else going on that we could be concerned about.' 

In response, Nick said that he was 'completely' bothered by the thought of people sunbathing in the nude - even though there is now law currently prohibiting it.

He joked: 'The only bush I want to see when I'm having a sandwich is a green one with birds in it!

'I have issues with it because I think it's a very selfish thing. It's about you and your empowerment and I completely understand body positivity which I think is fantastic. 

'But you're not taking into consideration the other people within that environment who might be a little bit triggered, who might find it a bit offensive, [...] or something you only see in the bedroom or when you're having a shower.'

However, Helen questioned why the public at large should be triggered by a show of nudity - then joking she could be 'triggered' by the colour of Nick's top. 

Hitting back at this, Nick added: 'But from a nudity point of view, people are told to avert their eyes, whether you're with your children or your family, people see it as offensive. That might be a conditioning thing.'

Taking issue with this, Helen said: 'How is it offensive? It's just a body. 

You've got one. You've got one in the shower and it's naked as well presumably.

'How is that offensive? That someone is just lying [down sunbathing].'

Unsurprisingly, the debate sparked some lively conversations among viewers - who expressed their views on the matter on Twitter.

'Just watched this,' one wrote. 'We would be most upset if our kids saw naked people in the park!'

Another added: 'Do what you like in private, but I certainly don't want to walk through my local park and see people with their bits hanging out...'

Adding onto this, a third said: 'I think if you sunbathe naked in a park should be ok but you should have a windbreaker or something around you. Being naked isn’t offensive but it’s private.' 

A fourth replied: 'If you want to go naked, fine not a problem. But please do consider others

Perhaps the local park isn't the place and as far as being naked in your back garden, go for it! Neighbours should mind their own business & not look into your garden.'

No thanks,' a fifth said. 'Kids don't need to see it.' 

Taking Helen's side, a sixth responded: 'It's flesh, we all have bodies, they shouldn't be seen as dirty or something to feel shame about. I walk around naked at home all the time.' 

Elsewhere in the segment, Helen explained how she first became a naturist after attending a convention with her husband which left her feeling 'free'.

She said: 'It was a "Eureka!" moment for me, I sort of realised that my body is just my body and there's nothing sensational about it and there's no need to sexualise it.

'It literally is just my body and I accept it as it is.' 

Although it isn't illegal to be naked in public in England and Wales, under Section 66 of Sexual Offences Act 2023, people need to make sure that it is not 'causing distress or alarm' to others.

The Crown Prosecution Service guidelines read: 'In the case of naturism a balance needs to be struck between the naturist's right to freedom of expression and the right of the wider public to be protected from harassment, alarm and distress.' 

An Etruscan Amphora; 6th Century BC.

 An Etruscan Amphora; 6th Century BC.

 

It is now on display with other repatriated art (almost exclusively Etruscan or Greek) in Aula Ottagona, a part of Baths of Diocletian.

Now used as a exhibition space for National Roman Museum in Rome, Italy.

THE HEROIC STORY OF THE U.S. ARMY "WILSON DOUGLAS WATSON OF EARLE, A PRIVATE IN THE U.S. MARINE CORPS."

 THE HEROIC STORY OF THE U.S. ARMY "WILSON DOUGLAS WATSON OF EARLE, A PRIVATE IN THE U.S. MARINE CORPS."

 Wilson Douglas Watson of Earle, Arkansas, a Private in the U.S. Marine Corps, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his extraordinary actions on February 26 and 27, 1945 during the Battle of Iwo Jima.

Watson enlisted in the Marine Corps in August 1942 and was deployed overseas in January 1943. He served as an automatic rifleman with Company G, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, 3rd Marine Division during the fighting on Iwo Jima. 

  On February 26-27, 1945, Watson single-handedly killed more than 60 enemy soldiers, thus enabling his platoon to advance, earning him the nickname "One-Man Regiment of Iwo Jima". In the attack, he was shot seven times and was hit in the shoulder by mortar fragments. He was evacuated from Iwo Jima after he suffered a gunshot wound to the neck on March 2, 1945.

Watson was credited with inspiring actor John Wayne's "shoot from the hip" style in his films. Wayne heard of Watson's style after hearing about how Watson charged the crest of a hill on Iwo Jima, firing from his hip. 

Following Watson’s discharge from the Marine Corps, he enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces, and then the Army as a private, working as a mess hall cook.  He was arrested in 1963 for desertion after being reported missing from his post in Fort Rucker, Alabama in October 1962. When asked about his leaving, Watson stated he just got "fed up" with the Army and left. He eventually reached the rank of staff sergeant and retired from the military in 1966. He died in December 1994 at age 72. He is buried at Russell Cemetery in Ozone, Arkansas. 

Horrible strange but true crimes in American histoy

 Horrible strange but true crimes in American histoy

In 1983 David Steffen was convicted for the rape and murder of 19 year old Cincinnati Girl Karen Range. David Steffen a door to door sales man admitted the murder but insisted he didn’t rape her and couldn’t explain how they found semen in her body. He was given the death penalty due to the sexual motive for the crime.

In 2008 to appeal his sentence his attorney got the D.N.A sample tested and it turned out it wasn’t a match for David. Instead it belong to Kenneth Douglas a coroner's technician who worked at the Hamilton County’s morgue were Karen's body was being kept.

Kenneth Douglas

In the strange twist of weirdness during the course of his 16 years working at the morgue Kenneth Douglas had been assaulting hundreds of female corpses.

Due to these new outcomes David Steffen won his appeal and the Judge commuted his sentence to life in prison with no possibility for parole. Kenneth Douglas was given three years for gross indecency with a corpse. 

Topless Women and Pedestrian Plazas Will Stay in Times Square

 Topless Women and Pedestrian Plazas Will Stay in Times Square

CITY HALL — Both the pedestrian plazas and topless ladies of Times Square aren't going anywhere. 

A task force appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio has agreed to the idea of designated areas for the women and costumed characters to solicit tips from tourists, but the details have yet to be worked out.

On the John Gambling show on Thursday, the mayor called the idea of sanctioning off the Times Square area "a very strong recommendation," adding the plan was still being finalized. 

De Blasio then added that Times Square performers, such as the costume characters and the "desnudas", should be considered as businesses and therefore conform to city regulations and pay taxes. 

"The goal is that, if it’s a business, it’s a business, and it should be treated like any other business," he said.

De Blasio appointed the task force, which examined a series of recommendations from a panel of elected officials and Times Square area business leaders, after heavy media coverage of aggressive panhandling by the topless women and costumed characters.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton floated the idea of removing the plazas, which de Blasio said he was willing to explore. The mayor said he recognized the right of the topless women to be there but he felt their nudity and actions were inappropriate for the city's top tourist destination.

"I think it’s wrong. It’s wrong," de Blasio said about the women in August.

Neither being topless or panhandling is illegal in New York City.

City Councilman Corey Johnson, who represents a portion of Times Square and helped to draft the report, said it's unclear whether there will be zones for the ladies to work or whether there will be a medallion painted on the ground that designates where performers can stand.

"The devil is really in the details," said Johnson who said the ruling will jibe with the rights of the topless women, costumed characters and CD sellers.

In keeping the plazas, Johnson said he expects legislative action to allow the Department of Transportation to impose regulations.

Currently, the plazas are still designated as city streets. The change would give DOT the power to make rules governing not just Times Square, but all 70 pedestrian plazas throughout the city, said Johnson.

In order to bring some order to the area, there's also discussion of eliminating vending on 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues. That would also require City Council legislation.

Other changes include endorsing an increased police presence in the area. The NYPD is already recruiting 100 officers to be part of a dedicated "Times Square Unit."

The officers will use the city's new neighborhood policing model and be assigned solely to Times Square so they could get to know the vendors, local businesses and security personnel in the area.

Tim Tompkins, president of the Times Square Alliance, and Robert Kafin, chairman of the Times Square Alliance, praised the plan.

"We are pleased that the administration has endorsed and supported the key elements of the community's plan, and we look forward to working with them and our elected officials to hammer out the specifics of implementation so that Times Square can continue to be the economic and job growth engine that it has been in recent years," the pair said in a statement.

Johnson agreed that there was more work to be done.

"I feel grateful that City Hall adopted the set of recommendations we put forward but this is the beginning of the work," said Johnson. "We have to execute the details of this plan and that's what really matters."

FIVE STUDENTS BRUTALLY MURDERED BY MAXICO DUG CARTEL

 

 FIVE STUDENTS BRUTALLY MURDERED BY MAXICO DUG CARTEL

Five young men who went missing in Mexico and later shown on camera being brutally murdered by a Mexican drug cartel were lured to meet the gang with a fake job offer.

The young men, all students and friends whose ages ranged between 19 and 22 were duct-taped, beaten, stabbed and beheaded in a horrifically graphic video.

The deceased young men who were seeking employment as private security, met a contact in town and were not seen again until the video surfaced.

According to El Universal journalist Carlos Arrieta, the men were deceived into a meeting with the Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) cartel.

They hoped to recruit the victims into their ranks and killed them after they refused.

The men were later identified by their relatives as Roberto Olmeda, Diego Lara, Uriel Galvan, Jaime Martinez and Dante Cedillo, El Pais reported.

The “strongest hypothesis” pointed to the young men contacting a call center to gain employment.

According to the report, these call centers offer high-paying jobs with attractive job benefits that are actually a hoax to trick young people into the CJNG, which then forcefully recruits applicants.

On Wednesday afternoon, Mexican authorities located the property where the photo and video were allegedly filmed and found four burned and decapitated bodies.

The bodies were badly burned and had not yet been identified, according to prosecutors in the western state of Jalisco.

However, the bodies were found inside a building near where the young men were kidnapped Friday and later photographed in captivity.

A fifth body was found by police inside a burned-out car in a nearby area.

Photos shared by Jalisco prosecutors show brick and concrete buildings on a ranch, isolated by an open field.

They also showed bloodstains on the floor, shoes scattered about and investigators examining the area.

The young men went missing Friday while on a trip to attend a festival in the city of Lagos de Moreno, an area known for cartel violence.

They were next seen in viral videos bound by tape, kneeling on the ground and surrounded by gang members, with one of them seen bludgeoning and apparently decapitating his friend.

The horrific incident in Perungamanallur of Madurai district

 The horrific incident in Perungamanallur of Madurai district

, which is called the ‘Jallianwala Bagh of the South’ is an important part of the history of oppressed people. A history of sacrifice, of 17 people dying of bullet wounds for their rights!

The incident dates back to 1919 when villagers rose in revolt against an oppressive British rule. The events that led to the bloody episode began as Keezhakudi villagers, predominantly the Kallars, opposed a Criminal Tribes Act implemented by British in 1919. Identifying a person as a criminal on the basis and birth and a specific group as horrific, and continuously monitoring their actions was the outcome of the law. As per the Act, people from Kallar community had to register with the local police station by giving their thumb impressions.

It was the Perungamanallur residents who first refused to register, which later saw the others from neighbouring villages follow suit. It is said that 16 people, including a woman, were killed in the police firing on April 3, 1920. The black pillar was erected in their memory.

THREE MEN ARE BEHEADED WITH BLOOD COVERED SWORD BY ISIS EXECUTIONER FOR HOMOSEXUALITY AND BLASPHEMY.

 THREE MEN ARE BEHEADED WITH BLOOD COVERED SWORD BY ISIS EXECUTIONER FOR HOMOSEXUALITY AND BLASPHEMY.

After an elderly man uses a microphone to read to the crowd from his notes, the executioner then steps forward with the blade poised above

Blindfolded and forced to their knees, three men are beheaded with blood-covered sword by ISIS executioner for homosexuality and blasphemy as crowd cheer on each blow

Photographs of the barbaric murders show the blindfolded men kneeling in the centre of what appears to be a traffic roundabout with a crowd of people looking on as a masked executioner stands by with a long, rusty blade.

After an elderly man uses a microphone to read to the crowd from his notes, the executioner then steps forward with the blade poised above the men's heads in the unnamed city in northern Iraq.

The photographs were revealed just five days after chilling new images emerged of three men being beheaded. The executioner stands with the sword poised above the man's head as a large crowd gathers to watch

The beheading appears to take place at a traffic roundabout in northern Iraq's Nineveh province

One of the blindfolded victims kneels with his head forward immediately prior to the beheading. 

Messages accompanying the images claimed two men were accused of homosexuality and a third of blasphemy

Accompanying captions said the trio were then beheaded - two for engaging in homosexual acts and the third for alleged blasphemy - but there were no images released of the actual beheading.

The jihadist group, which controls swathes of Iraq and neighbouring Syria, has carried out hundreds of barbaric executions as it has imposed its brutal version of Islamic law, many of which are photographed or videotaped.

The photos were said to have been taken in Nineveh province - the first to fall to a sweeping IS-led offensive last June - but the exact location was not specified. 

Many young men have also been thrown from the roofs of buildings throughout ISIS-controlled areas after being accused of engaging in homosexual acts.

The stomach-churning photographs usually show a blindfolded victim being dragged to the top of a building by black-masked militants.

As crowds gather at street level the men are thrown to their death, while jihadis and members of the public use mobile phones to film the gruesome murders.

Iraqi troops and militia are battling to push the jihadists back with support from a US-led coalition and Iran.

But retaking Nineveh and its capital Mosul poses a major challenge for Baghdad's forces, as the militants have had more than nine months to dig in.

Iraqi forces launched a huge operation last week aimed at retaking the city of Tikrit that, if successful, would serve as a stepping stone towards Mosul.

Images of the bloodthirsty group's latest execution come amid claims a former member of ISIS claimed he witnessed the British graduate dubbed Jihadi John behead a Japanese hostage.

The man, named only as Saleh, said the masked militant who appears in several beheading videos was a senior figure in the extremist organisation responsible for murdering foreign captives.

Jihadi John, who was recently unmasked as 26-year-old Londoner Mohammed Emwazi, was last seen in a video posted online which appeared to show Japanese hostage Kenji Goto lying dead.

Saleh, who worked as a translator, also revealed that ISIS routinely subjected hostages to mock executions so that when their beheading did finally come they were not expecting to die, according to Sky News.

'HELP ME!' Horrifying moment naked rape victim is found locked in a suitcase that had been dumped in a park

 

'HELP ME!' Horrifying moment naked rape victim is found locked in a suitcase that had been dumped in a park

The chilling footage, taken at the scene and published by People's Daily China, shows passers-by looking panic stricken as a voice shouting “help me” is heard from inside the suitcase.

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The chilling footage, taken at the scene and published by People's Daily China, shows passers-by looking panic stricken as a voice shouting 'help me' is heard from inside the suitcase

According to the news website, a man who had been spotted carrying the suitcase dumped it when the woman started shouting and then dived into a nearby lake to escape.

Once the passers-by hear the woman’s voice they tentatively walk over to the suitcase and set her free.

One man offers the naked woman his T-shirt to cover herself up before calling the emergency services.

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Once the passers-by hear the woman’s voice they tentatively walk over to the suitcase and set her free

According to the Mirror, the woman told police she had been raped by the man before he stuffed her in the suitcase.

She says she had no idea what he planned to do with her next.

The woman is now recovering from her ordeal in hospital, officials said.

Cops are understood to have captured the man who tried to escape via the lake and are currently investigating. 

MEXICAN AUTHORITY RECOVERED THE BODY OF ADULFO MENDOZA VALENCIA ON SUNDAY AS IT HUNG FROM HIGHWAY PASSOVER IN THE CENTRAL STATE

MEXICAN AUTHORITY RECOVERED THE BODY OF ADULFO MENDOZA VALENCIA ON SUNDAY AS IT HUNG FROM HIGHWAY PASSOVER IN THE CENTRAL STATE

 

Chilling footage has emerged showing Mexico's most powerful cartel parading a high-ranking rival gang member in front of a camera before executing him and leaving his body hanging from a highway overpass.

Armed members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel appeared in a video released this weekend surrounding half-naked Adolfo Mendoza Valencia, who was in charge of managing a "plaza" or turf operated by the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel in Valle de Santiago, a city in the central Mexico state of Guanajuato.

Mendoza Valencia, who was also known as El Michoacano, was bound to a chair with his hands and feet tied.

A male voice behind the camera interrogated him during a recording that was later posted on social media Sunday.

'[My name] is Adolfo Mendoza Valencia, also known as El Michoacano,' he said before adding that he sold 'drugs in the Valle de Santiago [Santiago Valley].' 

A separate video that was circulated Sunday showed first responders removing the drug dealer's body after it was discovered hanging from a highway overpass in Guanajuato.

According to local Mexican media outlets, Mendoza Valencia had previously escaped an assassination attempt which left his 17-year-old son and another man dead July 27.

The Jalisco New Generation Cartel, considered the strongest criminal organization in Mexico, sent a warning message to José Antonio 'El Marro' Yépez Ortiz, the leader of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel.

Both criminal syndicates have been embroiled in an all-out bloody war that has left  innocent civilians dead since December 2017 when El Marro declared war on New Jalisco Generation Cartel, led by Nemesio 'El Mencho' Oseguera Cervantes, a former ally of Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán who is wanted by the U.S. government.

Both gangs have been fighting for control of the highly profitable illegal oil tapping business known as ‘huachicoleo’. To everyone in the Valle de Santiago, we are the elite group of the four letters. 

We are already here in the Valle de Santiago,' the Jalisco New Generation Cartel associated declared.

'We come to clean the municipality of all the plague, extortionists, kidnappers and killers of innocent people.

A clear example, here we have the Michoacano, who was the head of the Valle de Santiago turf …

We are coming for you, you filthy Marro, and all of your filthy people, those who entered the Santiago Valley police department and killed innocent people.'

The cartel was referencing to Friday's attack at the police precinct in which alleged members of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel killed five prisoners and freed a presumed member of their faction, only identified as 'El Mano Mocha', who was jailed at the station.

No arrests have been reported. 

The Woman With Four Legs And Two Vaginas

 The Woman With Four Legs And Two Vaginas

  

That is why we the living must be grateful to our creator daily. Mrs. Josephine Myrtle Corbin was born an American on May 12, 1868. During her birth, the parents said they didn't experience any complications during her delivery.

She was born as a dipygus. This means she has two pelvises. Her other two small legs were paired with the big ones.

She was also classified to be an easy-going smart kid. During her time on earth, she was the talk of the world.

She was nicknamed by medical practitioners as Mrs. B. and was commonly described as the woman with four legs.

She got married at the age of 19 to a lovely sweet man James C, Bicknell, and was pregnant the first time when she was 25. She vomited for two months and was placed under special medical attention.

After examining her it was discovered that she had two sexual organs and two wombs. One at the right the other on the left. And her first pregnancy was on the left she didn't believe the reports of the doctors.

She claimed she normally and only meet her husband on the right.

She decided to abort the pregnancy. It was expected that there may be some complications. But she was fine,

Later on, she and her husband had five wonderful kids together these include four girls and a boy. On May 6, 1928, which happens to be her birth month which was only six days to her 60th birthday when she died.

Her casket was made of concrete and was protected daily by her family members, this they did to prevent people from stealing her corps,

The possible cause of her condition called dipygus was

Genes from her parents. Because it was reported that her parents had the same color of eyes and other similar genetics features

THE PUBLIC EXECUTION OF TWO GAY TEENAGERS IN THE COUNTRY, MAHMOUD ASGARI 16 AND AYAZ MARHONI 18 WERE PUBLICLY HANGED.

 THE PUBLIC EXECUTION OF TWO GAY TEENAGERS IN THE COUNTRY, MAHMOUD ASGARI 16 AND AYAZ MARHONI 18 WERE PUBLICLY HANGED.

the public execution of two gay teenagers in the country, Mahmoud Asgari, 16, and Ayaz Marhoni, 18, were publicly hanged,

"they were executed simply because they are gay or have had gay sex just isn't acceptable in

gay executions with a call for human rights

Human rights groups are calling for greater protection of gay rights in Iran as the first anniversary of the public execution of two gay teenagers in the country is marked. 

Mahmoud Asgari, 16, and Ayaz Marhoni, 18, were publicly hanged on 19 July last year in Mashad, provincial capital of Iran's Khorasan province, on charges of homosexuality. 

Asgari was accused of raping a 13-year-old boy. However, groups like Outrage, a London-based group for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people (LGBT), maintain it was a false charge designed to undermine public sympathy for the teenagers.

 Activists in Washington, New York, London, Berlin and Brussels marked the anniversary of the teenagers' execution. David Allison, an Outrage spokesman, said killing the teenagers for what they did together was “absolutely abhorrent”.

 "To execute people simply because they are gay or have had gay sex just isn't acceptable in the 21st century," he said.

 Philip Braun, secretary-general of the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA), condemned the continued threat of the death penalty for consensual same-sex acts between adults in Iran. 

Braun, speaking from Bonn in Germany, said the “barbaric punishment” for homosexuality - still used in nine countries including Iran - contravened the findings of the UN Commission on Human Rights and UN Human Rights Committee. 

"We call on the Iranian government to respect the human rights of its people regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity," he said. 

But members of the LGBT community continue to face discrimination, harassment, abuse, torture and death at the hands of the authorities in Iran. 

The surveillance of gay meeting places, raids on private homes, arrests by regular police and Basiji (religious police) was common, with the internet and phone wiretaps used to entrap homosexual men, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).

 Scott Long, director of the watchdog‘s LGBT rights programme, said when homosexual people were arrested in Iran they were tortured.

 "Sometimes the torture is the result of a criminal sentence [usually floggings]. Sometimes they are beaten severely or sexually abused in pre-trial detention," he said from New York.

 Women whose sexuality did not conform to heterosexual norms also faced the death penalty, domestic violence and forced marriage, psychiatric and medical treatment.

 Arsham Parsi, secretary of human rights affairs for the Persian Gay and Lesbian Organization (PGLO), said the situation left gay men with no option but to hide. "There is no room for rights as their mere life is threatened by law," he said from Canada.

 "They can not report the abuse because they will have to state that they're gay, and that calls for harsh punishments and death."

 In a letter to the United Nations, PGLO said that under Islamic law the penalty for sexual relations between two men was death, with a judge deciding the method of execution.

 The options included stoning, hanging, hurling from a height or death by sword.

 "This brutality occurs within the Islamic regime of Iran, while the agreement of social and political rights of the world organisation [the UN] has banned torture and execution punishments for consensual relations between adults," the letter read.

 It added that under Islamic law there was no boundary between "sexual abuse" and "homosexual relations", warning: "What we are highly concerned with and urgently ask from you is that a ban be placed on the execution of homosexuals and legal protection be provided to them in Iran." 

Long said it was important that the attention focused on the Mashad case did not detract from the broader pattern of abuse suffered by LGBT people in Iran. 

Homan, a non-profit support organisation for the Los Angeles Iranian lesbian, gay, and bisexual community, believes that up to 4,000 lesbians and gay men may have been executed since the Iranian revolution in 1979.

 According to various right groups, an estimated 100,000 Iranians have been put to death during the past 27 years of clerical rule including women who had sex outside of marriage and political opponents of the government.

 

Camp Commandant Amon Goeth, infamous from the movie “Schindler’s List”, standing on his balcony preparing to shoot prisoners, 1943

 Camp Commandant Amon Goeth, infamous from the movie “Schindler’s List”, standing on his balcony preparing to shoot prisoners, 1943

Camp Commandant Amon Goeth, infamous from the movie “Schindler’s List”, standing on his balcony preparing to shoot prisoners, 1943

Amon Leopold Goeth was camp commander of the Plaszow concentration camp from February 1943 until September 1944. In the photograph, he can be seen standing on his balcony preparing to shoot prisoners.

Amon Leopold Goeth (German: Amon Göth) the villain of the movie Schindler’s List, was born in 1908 in Vienna, Austria. At the age of 24, he joined the Nazi party. In 1940, Amon Goeth became a member of the Waffen-SS.
He was assigned to the SS headquarters for Operation Reinhard in Lublin in German-occupied Poland in 1942.
Operation Reinhard was the plan to evacuate the Jews from the Ghettos in Poland to three death camps: Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzec, all of which were in eastern Poland.
In February 1943, Goeth received a promotion and became the third SS officer to hold the job of Commandant of the Plaszow labor camp.
While he was the Commandant of Plaszow, Goeth was assigned to supervise the liquidation of the Podgorze ghetto on March 13, 1943, and later the labor camp at Szebnie. The liquidation of the Podgorze ghetto in Krakow is shown in the movie, Schindler’s List.

On 3 September 1943, in addition to his duties at Plaszow, Goeth was the officer in charge of the liquidation of another ghetto at Tarnów, which had been home to 25,000 Jews (about 45 percent of the city’s population) at the start of World War II. By the time the ghetto was liquidated, 8,000 Jews remained.

They were loaded on a train to Auschwitz concentration camp, but less than half survived the journey. Most of the survivors were deemed unsuitable for forced labor and were murdered immediately upon their arrival at Auschwitz.
According to the testimony of several witnesses, as recorded in his 1946 indictment for war crimes, Goeth personally shot between 30 and 90 women and children during the liquidation of the ghetto.

In early 1944 the status of the Kraków-Płaszów Labour Camp changed to a permanent concentration camp under the direct authority of the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt.
It was during the earlier period that Goeth committed most of the random and brutal killings for which he became notorious.
Concentration camps were more closely monitored by the SS than labor camps, so conditions improved slightly when the designation was changed.
The camp housed about 2,000 inmates when it opened. At its peak of operations in 1944, a staff of 636 guards oversaw 25,000 permanent inmates, and an additional 150,000 people passed through the camp in its role as a transit camp. Goeth personally murdered prisoners on a daily basis.
His two dogs, Rolf and Ralf, were trained to tear inmates to death. He shot people from the window of his office if they appeared to be moving too slowly or resting in the yard.
He shot to death a Jewish cook because the soup was too hot. He brutally mistreated his two maids, Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig and Helen Hirsch, who were in constant fear for their lives, as were all the inmates.

Commandant Amon Goeth’s dog (Rolf) together with another dog. Arthur Kuhnreich, a Holocaust survivor: “I saw Goeth set his dog on a Jewish prisoner. The dog tore the victim apart. When he did not move anymore, Goeth shot him”.

This is how prisoner Joseph Bau (Prisoner Number 69084) described Goeth:

“A hideous and terrible monster who reached the height of more than two meters. He set the fear of death in people, terrified masses, and accounted for much chattering of teeth.
He ran the camp through extremes of cruelty that are beyond the comprehension of a compassionate mind – employing tortures which dispatched his victims to hell.

For even the slightest infraction of the rules, he would rain blow after blow upon the face of the helpless offender and would observe with satisfaction born of sadism, how the cheek of his victim would swell and turn blue, how the teeth would fall out and the eyes would fill with tears.
Anyone who was being whipped by him was forced to count in a loud voice, each stroke of the whip and if he made a mistake was forced to start counting over again.
During interrogations, which were conducted in his office, he would set his dog on the accused, who was strung by his legs from a specially placed hook in the ceiling.
In the event of an escape from the camp, he would order the entire group from which the escapee had come, to form a row, would give the order to count ten, and would, personally kill every tenth person. 
At one morning parade, in the presence of all the prisoners he shot a Jew, because, as he complained, the man was too tall. Then as the man lay dying he urinated on him.
 Once he caught a boy who was sick with diarrhea and was unable to restrain himself. Goeth forced him to eat all the excrement and then shot him”.
Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig, his maid: “As a survivor, I can tell you that we are all traumatized people. Never would I, never, believe that any human being would be capable of such horror, of such atrocities. When we saw him from a distance, everybody was hiding, in latrines, wherever they could hide. I can’t tell you how people feared him”.


Camp Commandant Amon Goeth with his mistress, Majola (Ruth Irene Kalder). Kalder first met Göth in 1942 or early 1943 when she worked as a secretary at Oskar Schindler’s enamelware factory in Kraków. She soon moved in with Göth and the two had an affair. She took Göth’s name shortly after his death.

Amon Goeth with his daughter, 1943. He married Anny Geiger in a civil SS ceremony on 23 October 1938. The couple had three children, Peter, born in 1939, who died of diphtheria at age 7 months, Werner, born in 1940, and a daughter, Ingeborg, born in 1941.

On 13 September 1944 Goeth was relieved of his position and charged by the SS with theft of Jewish property (which belonged to the state, according to Nazi legislation), failure to provide adequate food to the prisoners under his charge, violation of concentration camp regulations regarding the treatment and punishment of prisoners, and allowing unauthorized access to camp personnel records by prisoners and non-commissioned officers.
After the war, Goeth was extradited to Poland, where he was tried by the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland in Kraków between 27 August and 5 September 1946.
Goeth was found guilty of membership in the Nazi Party (which had been declared a criminal organization) and personally ordering the imprisonment, torture, and extermination of individuals and groups of people. 

 He was also convicted of homicide, the first such conviction at a war crimes trial, for “personally killing, maiming and torturing a substantial, albeit an unidentified number of people”.
During his trial, Goeth displayed provocative indifference. He accepted responsibility for what happened at Plaszow.
He had been given authority and permission to do everything he had done, he said, and was only carrying out orders and instructions received from his superiors.
He also contended that the penalties he was inflicting upon the inmates including putting them to death, were within his disciplinary jurisdiction as commandant of the camp, and were in accordance with the German regulations in force.
Goth was sentenced to death and was hanged on 13 September 1946 at the Montelupich Prison in Kraków, not far from the site of the Plaszów camp.
Goeth’s last words were “Heil Hitler”. His remains were cremated and the ashes were scattered in the Vistula River.

WWII KILLING OF SOVIET PARTISANS ON THE EASTERN FRONT BY A GERMAN FIRING SQUAD

 WWII KILLING OF SOVIET PARTISANS ON THE EASTERN FRONT BY A GERMAN FIRING SQUAD

Execution by firing squad, in the past sometimes called fusillading^[1] (from the French fusil, rifle), is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in the military and in times of war.

Some reasons for its use are that firearms are usually readily available and a gunshot to a vital organ, such as the brain or heart, most often will kill relatively quickly.

Some reasons for its use are that firearms are usually readily available and a gunshot to a vital organ, such as the brain or heart, most often will kill relatively quickly.

A firing squad is normally composed of several soldiers, all of whom are usually instructed to fire simultaneously, thus preventing both disruption of the process by one member and identification of who fired the lethal shot.

To avoid disfigurement due to multiple shots to the head, the shooters are typically instructed to aim at the heart, sometimes aided by a paper or cloth target. The prisoner is typically blindfolded or hooded as well as restrained. 

Executions can be carried out with the condemned either standing or sitting.

There is a tradition in some jurisdictions that such executions are carried out at first light or at sunrise, giving rise to the phrase "shot at dawn".

Execution by firing squad is a specific practice that is distinct from other forms of execution by firearms, such as an execution by shot(s) to the back of the head or neck.

However, the single shot by the squad's officer with a pistol (coup de grâce) is sometimes incorporated in a firing squad execution, particularly if the initial volley turns out not to be immediately fatal.

Before the introduction of firearms, bows or crossbows were often used—Saint Sebastian is usually depicted as executed by a squad of Roman auxiliary archers in around AD 288;

King Edmund the Martyr of East Anglia, by some accounts, was tied to a tree and executed by Viking archers on 20 November 869 or 870.

THE WORST, PAINFUL EXECUTION OF RICHARD ROOSE.

 THE WORST, PAINFUL EXECUTION OF RICHARD ROOSE.

In 1531, Richard Roose was a cook in the home of John Fisher, the Bishop of Rochester, who in way of a prank, (he claimed) served his employer and other guests porridge which he had laced with a laxative. After the meal all of those who ate Roose's offerings became ill and two died leading to his conviction of poisoning with murderous intent.

It has been suggested, although there was no proof to back up the claim, that Roose had been paid by someone in the Boleyn family to poison Fisher, an opponent of Henry VIII’s church reforms and his plan to divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn.

Roose was arrested and was denied the chance to plead his case. Henry VIII's Act of Poisoning was quickly passed making murder by poisoning high treason that was punishable by boiling. Was this dreadful punishment specifically created because Roose was a cook?

Death by hanging was the most commonly used form of capital punishment for those convicted of murder and those convicted of high treason, as was Roose, were punished by hanging, drawing and quartering, so why did Richard Roose not receive either one of those punishments? I am having trouble seeing poisoning as any more abominable than any other act of murder that the perpetrator needs to be executed in such a specifically horrible way, the suggestion was that poisoning was a particularly wicked and despicable crime and that Henry's act would deter other would be poisoners - why suddenly apply the eye for an eye theory, why not just hang the man and be done with it? It seems a bit strange to me? 

Richard Roose met his horrific death, boiled in front of a large crowd at Smithfield in London on this day in 1531, his case was mentioned in the chronicle of the Grey Friars of London

  "{{This yere was a coke boylyd in a cauderne in Smythfeld for he wolde a powsyned the bishop of Rochester Fycher  

      with dyvers of hys servanttes, and he was lockyd in a chayne and pullyd up and downe with a gybbyt at dyvers tymes  

                                                                                        tyll he was dede}}

John Fisher would survive his murderous cook by just four years, he, just as Roose, was one of many who got in the way of Henry's grand plans. 

He was executed for treason for refusing to take the Oath of Succession and accept the king as the Supreme Head of the Church of England