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  • 1963: Julian Grimau, the last casualty of the Spanish Civil War

    04/20/2024 8:19:06 PM PDT · by CheshireTheCat · 17 replies
    ExecutedToday.com ^ | April 20, 2014 | Headsman
    On this date in 1963, Francisco Franco’s government shot Communist agitator Julian Grimau. Grimau (English Wikipedia entry | Spanish), a member of the Communist Party of Spain‘s Central Committee since 1959, had fled to exile after escaping the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. But he in 1959 he took over the Communists’ activities within Spain itself, and began living underground in his old homeland. The Franco regime dearly wanted to take him. In November 1962, secret police arrested Grimau on a bus and hustled him to Madrid’s Puerta del Sol, where within hours Grimau met with that...
  • 1374: Tile von Damm, Braunschweig mayor

    04/19/2024 9:01:59 AM PDT · by CheshireTheCat · 6 replies
    ExecutedToday.com ^ | April 19, 2017 | Headsman
    On this date in 1374, mayor Tile von Damm was beheaded by rebel populares in his home city of Braunschweig (Brunswick). One of northern Europe’s great Hanseatic merchant cities, Braunschweig enjoyed a rich history of civic unrest — the Braunschweiger Schichten. (Literally shift, but also carrying the sense of rebellion.) The Great Rebellion in Braunschweig, by Alfred von Schüssler (mid-19th century). One of its most outstanding installments — the one recalled as the Große Schicht — kicked off on April 17, 1374. (Most of the information about this incident is in German, as are most of the links in this...