The Last Execution: Nicolas Bernardy and the Windhof Murders
July 1945. Five people are shot in a Luxembourg farmhouse living room. Three years later, Nicolas Bernardy is tied to a wooden post and executed by firing squad — the last common criminal put to death in the Grand Duchy.
Host Alexander Lawson tells the story of the Windhof massacre: Johann and Susanne Weyer, their son Mathias, farmhand Josef Lucas, and maid Leonie Colling. A fingerprint. A confession that was taken back. A sergeant seen near the farm who was never convicted. And a country still raw from occupation, settling accounts the old way.
The post is still in the police museum. You can…
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