November 27, 1918 - Joseph Malta
Malta's place in history is narrow but consequential — as one of two U.S. Army executioners who carried out the hangings at Nuremberg, he was present at the literal conclusion of the most significant war crimes tribunal of the twentieth century. The ten men executed that morning in 1946 had been convicted for their roles in orchestrating the Second World War and the Holocaust, and the gallows work fell to a small detail of enlisted men tasked with carrying out the court's final verdicts.
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Joseph Malta (November 27, 1918 – January 6, 1999) was the United States Army hangman who, with Master Sergeant John C. Woods, carried out the Nuremberg executions of ten former top leaders of the Third Reich on October 16, 1946, after they were sentenced to death during the Nuremberg Trials. Malta was a 28-year-old military policeman when he volunteered for the job. He ultimately hanged a total of 60 Nazi government and military leaders. A floor sander in civilian life, Malta left the Army in 1947 and returned to his former job. "It was a pleasure doing it," noted Malta in 1996, echoing the sentiments of his colleague Woods.
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