THE CAMP COMMANDANT OF BUCHENWALD CONCENTRATION CAMP: HERMANN PISTER (FEBRUARY 21, 1885 TO SEPTEMBER 28, 1948)

On this date, September 28, 1948, the Camp Commandant of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Hermann Pister died of an acute heart attack before he could be hanged for his war crimes. Please go to this previous blog post to learn more about this Nazi War Criminal.

   

Hermann Pister

[PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.buchenwald.de/fileadmin/buchenwald/fotoarchiv/print.php?inventarnr=5669]

ZUG MASSACRE (SEPTEMBER 27, 2001)

On this date, September 27, 2001, an angry, unstable gunman, Friedrich Leibacher, shot and killed 15 people including himself in the cantonal parliament of Zug. The event became known as the Zug Massacre.

 

Mourners place candles and flowers on the steps to Zug's Parliament building

[PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/fifteen-dead-after-shootings-in-zug-parliament/2275034]

The Zug massacre took place on September 27, 2001 in the city of Zug (Canton of Zug, Switzerland) in the canton's parliament. Fourteen people were shot dead by Friedrich Leibacher, who killed himself shortly after the crime.

In the years before the massacre, Leibacher drew attention to himself by an intense use of lawsuits. These were dismissed, so he assumed he was being persecuted by the state, thus he felt he had to resort to the crime.

He was armed with a civilian version of a Stgw 90 (Swiss Army assault rifle), a SIG Sauer pistol, a pump-action shotgun, and a revolver, and he wore a home-made police vest. Leibacher was able to enter the parliament building without problem.

Allgemeine SS

INTERNET SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allgemeine_SS

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THE KOREAN-JAPANESE GENERAL: HONG SA-IK (MARCH 4, 1899 TO SEPTEMBER 26, 1946)

70 years ago on this date, September 26, 1946, a Korean-Japanese General, Hong Sa-Ik, was executed by hanging in Manila, Philippines. 

Lieutenant General Hong Sa-ik

Hong Sa-ik (4 March 1889 – 26 September 1946) was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army, and the top-ranking ethnic Korean in Japan to be charged with war crimes relating to the conduct of the Empire of Japan in World War II.