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  • 2021-07-14 (xsd:date)
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  • Were Doctors and Members of the Media Hanged in This Nuremberg Trial Photo? (en)
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  • A photograph of a public hanging was widely circulated on social media in the summer of 2021 along with a caption claiming that the people who had been sentenced to death in this image had been doctors and members of the media. This meme was widely circulated among people pushing an anti-vaccination agenda along with messages stating that public health officials and reporters should be put to death in a similar fashion for encouraging people to get their COVID-19 vaccines. Some versions of this meme had added captions at the top, such as: Still so sure you want to try to force me to get the experimental vaccination! and Anyone else think this should be a thing here in the states? and This is what happens when the MEDIA lies to the people. [Side note: Please go get vaccinated. It will help keep you and your community safe.] This is a genuine photograph of a group of people who were sentenced to death by hanging in 1946. However, those pictured here were not doctors or members of the media. They were Nazi war criminals who were sentenced to death after being charged with participating in the killing, torturing and abduction of thousands of people. This image was taken on January 29, 1946, and shows the execution of a dozen Nazi war criminals in Kyiv, according to Ukraine's Shostka Museum of Local History. These Nazis were not executed for being members of the press or doctors. According to the Nuremberg Casus Pacis Project, one of the people executed, SS-Obersturmbannführer Georg Heinisch, was charged with ordering the killings of 3,000 children. Another person sentenced to death at this trial in Kyiv, Paul Scheer, Lieutenant General of Police, was accused of burning villages near Korosten and shooting the displaced people: An article from Yad Vashem, the world Holocaust remembrance center, contains the testimony of a woman named Dina Pronicheva (pictured at the top of this article) who testified against the Nazi soldiers during the trial shortly before this picture was taken. Pronicheva describes how the Nazi's forced thousands of Jews to gather near a ravine called Babi Yar where they would be executed and how she escaped after falling into this pit filled with the recently deceased bodies of her neighbors. This image does not show members of the media or doctors being hanged during the Nuremberg trials. This photograph was taken in Kyiv, Ukraine, and shows Nazi war criminals who were sentenced to death for the mass murder of Jewish people. When the AFP looked into this article in June 2021, they reported that only one member of the media was executed during the Nuremberg trials. According to Richard Wilson, professor of anthropology and law at the University of Connecticut, Julius Streicher was sentenced to death for running the the anti-Semitic newspaper Der Steurmer, which was a central element of the Nazi propaganda machine. (en)
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