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Re: Что значит...
Что любопытно -- в Германии обезглавливание считалось "позорной казнью". Впрочем, я читал, что позорной считалась казнь, при которой палач должен касаться казнимого, поэтому отрубание головы мечом считалось более почётным, чем топором (может быть, именно поэтому для своей второй супруги Генри Восьмой выписал палача из тогда английской Булони, в отличие от пятой супруги, которая ему действительно изменяла направо и налево, и которой голову отрубили топором)
Many German states had used guillotine-like device, Fallbeil, since the 17th and 18th centuries, and decapitation by guillotine was the usual means of execution in Germany until abolition of the death penalty in 1949. In Nazi Germany, the guillotine was reserved to criminal convicts. It is estimated some 40,000 persons were guillotined in Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. This number includes resistance fighters both in Nazi Germany itself and in those countries that were occupied by them. As these resistance fighters were not part of any regular army they were considered common criminals and were in many cases taken to Germany and decapitated. Decapitation was considered a "dishonourable" death, unlike an "honourable" death e.g. by execution by firing squad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapitation
In hoc signo vinces
- По-русски - Chestnut 14.06.2006 12:48:50 (210, 953 b)