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Stutthof Executions: Public Hanging of Nazi Camp Guards in Postwar Poland
The Stutthof executions of 1946 were among the rare public punishments of Nazi war criminals, when former SS guards from the Stutthof concentration camp were hanged before a large crowd in Gdańsk.
On 1 September 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, launching the Second World War and beginning one of the darkest chapters in European history. Within days of the invasion, the Germans established Stutthof, the first Nazi concentration camp built outside the borders of Germany, near Danzig—today’s Gdańsk. Initially created to imprison Polish elites, clergy, and political leaders, Stutthof quickly…
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