00:00Their execution, which took place in Kharkov City Square on the following day at 11 a.m.,
00:05was held publicly and became a theater of horror.
00:09Some foreign correspondent said that 50,000 people witnessed the hangings in the snow-covered
00:14public square.
00:16American journalist Edmund Stevens described the execution, saying,
00:20It was all over in a few moments.
00:23The defendants were hoisted into the back of four open trucks and stood on stools.
00:27Then the nooses were looped around their necks.
00:30There was no blindfolding.
00:32During the preliminaries, three of the four prisoners had to be propped up.
00:36Bulanov had fainted.
00:37Ritz and Ritzlav had turned pasty white.
00:39They drooled at the mouths, and their knees gave way.
00:43Only Lunghelt, the old soldier, remained stiff as a ramrod throughout, never once flinching.
00:49Once the nooses had been adjusted, at a signal, the trucks pulled away, and the four men were
00:55left dangling and kicking in mid-air.
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