70 years ago on this date, December 4, 1946, Richard
Drauz was executed by hanging in Landsberg Prison for war crimes.
Richard Drauz (help·info) (April 2,
1894 – December 4, 1946) was a Nazi German politician and Kreisleiter of
Heilbronn, Germany. He was also Member of the Reichstag from 1933 until the
collapse of the Third Reich after World War II. One of the most fanatical and
violent NSDAP leaders in the last days of the war, Drauz was put on trial and
executed by American occupation forces for war crimes in 1946.
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