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John Clarence Woods (June 5, 1911 – July 21, 1950) was a United States Army master sergeant who, with Joseph Malta, carried out the Nuremberg executions of ten former top leaders of the Third Reich on October 16, 1946, after they were sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials.
Jan 29, 2020 · U.S. Army hangman John C. Woods lied to superiors to get out of combat duty — and they ended up promoting him to the official hangman for Hitler's top Nazis.
2 days ago · John Woods, a philosopher well-known for his work in logic, and who held faculty and administrative positions at several Canadian universities, has died. Professor Woods authored or co-authored nearly twenty books (not counting a few textbooks and many edited collections), including works such as Truth in Fiction: Rethinking its Logic (2018), Errors of Reasoning: Naturalizing the
Feb 8, 2024 · ATLANTA - John J. Woods has been sentenced to nearly eight years in federal prison for operating a 13-year Ponzi scheme that victimized more than 400 investors and caused a loss of over $49 million.
Mar 24, 2023 · John E. Woods, an award-winning translator of the works of Thomas Mann, one of Germany’s greatest novelists, and of the lesser-known Arno Schmidt, whose complex fiction has been...
John C. Woods, Master Sergeant and U. S. Army hangman, was born in Wichita, Kansas on June 5, 1911. Prior to his induction in the Army on August 30, 1943, he lived in Eureka, Kansas; he was married with no children.
John Woods served as the primary executioner in the hangings of at least 34 American soldiers in France the remainder of 1944 and 1945. He also assisted in the hanging of at least three other soldiers and Army reports suggest that at least 11 of those executions resulted in bungled hangings.
Oct 28, 2019 · John C. Woods, the US Army's hangman during World War II, is known for his role executing ten senior Nazis in 1946. For the first time, learn about Woods's early life in Kansas and his dishonorable discharge before World War II.
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3 days ago · HAMILTON John Cronin Wood, 66, of Hamilton, NJ, passed away, suddenly, at Capital Regional Medical Center, Trenton, NJ on August 15, 2024. Born in Trenton, John grew up surrounded by his devoted and compassionate maternal great-grandparents, grandparents, aunts and uncles and many cousins, all of which, lived on the same street in Hamilton Township.
Woods gained international fame in October 1946, as the official hangman for the International Military Tribunal at Nürnberg. There, he executed ten senior German military and civilian officials previously convicted of egregious crimes against humanity, crimes against peace and war crimes.
