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Ungern

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2. A very strange guillotine during WWI in Belgium

Reply to rug (Original post)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 03:02 PM

Aug 2016

During WWI a Belgian civil was sentenced to dead by guillotine in a small town just in front of the ennemy .
But the belgian guillotine was on the otherside of the front in to occuped area....
Thus Belgium asked the help of France to loan a guillotine with the "praticians"
The guillotine and the praticians must go now into the Belgian front: a little town into a little island into a flooded territory just in front of the germans ...
This mission was absurd .. but the mission was carried ...
The criminal has been executed.
3 "praticians" were killed during the transport ...

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