{"id":11037,"date":"2025-12-07T12:36:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T12:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryreader.com\/?p=11037"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:57:11","slug":"the-curious-case-of-nurembergs-hangman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryreader.com\/world-history\/the-curious-case-of-nurembergs-hangman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Curious Case of Nuremberg\u2019s Hangman"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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In his book Rope<\/em>, author Tim Queeney takes readers on a unique and compelling adventure through the history of rope and its impact on civilization. In the article below, Queeney takes a look at the Nuremberg executions during WWII, which rope played a critical role in as the men were executed by hangings.<\/strong><\/p>

In October 1946, the victorious World War II Allies were in need of a hangman. The 1945-46 International Military Tribunal convened by the British, Americans, Soviets and French at Nuremberg had resulted in death sentences for 12 of the highest-ranking Nazis, including Adolf Hitler\u2019s one-time successor Herman Goering. Who would place the noose and throw the gallows lever? The man ultimately given the job turned out to be a curious choice.<\/p>

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View of the defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany. November 1945. Public domain. Courtesy of Wikimedia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>

The British executioner Albert Pierrepoint, an experienced hangman who had executed 15 German spies in Britain during the war, seemed the obvious candidate. Albert\u2019s father Henry had been a hangman, along with his uncle Thomas. As a family-proud schoolboy, Albert had written of his wish to be a hangman, too. Pierrepoint was involved in his first execution in 1932 at age 27 when he assisted Thomas in the hanging of an Irish farmer charged with murdering his brother. During the war, Pierrepoint not only hanged spies but also American soldiers convicted of capital crimes in Britain.<\/p>

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Yet the job of dispatching the Nuremberg Nazis went to a boastful and inexperienced U.S. Army private from Wichita, Kansas, named John C. Woods. When he applied for the job of hangman in 1944, he claimed he had assisted in hangings in Texas and Oklahoma before the war, even though both states had switched to using the electric chair when Woods was still a child. The Army, evidently pleased that someone actually wanted the job, overlooked Woods\u2019s inflated claims, made him hangman, and promoted him from private to master sergeant.<\/p>

In 1944, Woods received some quick training at the Paris Disciplinary Training Center. Then while the war was still being fought on the western front, Woods executed more than 30 American soldiers convicted of various crimes.<\/p>

For the October 1946 Nuremberg executions, Woods eschewed Pierrepoint\u2019s accepted British method of the \u201clong drop\u201d in which the weight of the convicted was used to calculate a sufficiently forceful drop to ensure the neck was broken in the so-called \u201changman\u2019s fracture.\u201d Woods also rejected the approach of employing a metal ring through which the rope was passed instead of the bulky hangman\u2019s noose. Instead, Woods tied a traditional hangman\u2019s knot. He later explained, \u201cI like what I call the Thirteen Knot noose.\u201d He used a separate rope for each execution, pre-stretching each one to make the sudden stop at the end of the rope more effective. There were claims that Woods botched the executions since almost all the Nazis died by strangulation, not by neck fractures. In addition, Woods further miscalculated and many of the men\u2019s heads struck the platform as they fell through the trap door opening. Woods, who was unperturbed by his role\u2014he ate a hearty dinner that night after it was done\u2014remarked following the last drop, \u201cTen men in 103 minutes. That\u2019s fast work.\u201d<\/p>

Following the executions, Woods claimed in an interview quoted in a 1950 Time<\/em> magazine obituary that vengeful Germans attempted to poison him and that someone even took a shot at him in Paris. He said that he wore two 45 caliber pistols at all times. \u201cIf some German thinks he wants to get me, he better make sure he does it with his first shot because I was raised with a pistol in my hand.\u201d<\/p>

In 1950, Woods was serving with the Army\u2019s 7th<\/sup> Engineer Brigade at Eniwetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, in support of atomic bomb testing. Some of the scientists working on atomic weapons and rocketry programs were Germans who had been brought to the U.S. as part of Operation Paperclip, the effort to scoop up German scientists before the Soviets to ensure German technological secrets would be in American hands. On July 21, Woods was working on a set of lights while standing in a pool of water and was suddenly killed in what the Army later called an accidental electrocution. Some, including French MacLean, author of American Hangman<\/em>, a 2019 biography of Woods, have suggested the possibility that Woods\u2019s death was not an accident, that perhaps one or several of the Paperclip scientists exacted revenge for their countrymen hanged by Woods at Nuremberg.<\/p>

Sources:<\/strong><\/p>

Queeney, Tim. Rope \u2013 How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization<\/em>. New York, St. Martin\u2019s Press. 2025<\/p>

MacLean, French L. American Hangman: MSgt. John C. Woods: The United States Army\u2019s Notorious Executioner in World War II and Nurnberg<\/em>. Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Publishing, 2019<\/p>

From Nuremberg to Nineveh<\/em><\/a> via Google Books. Retrieved Nov. 11, 2015<\/p>

The Nuremberg Hangings\u2014Not So Smooth Either<\/em><\/a> via The New York Times<\/em>.\u00a0 Retrieved Nov. 11, 2025<\/p>

Armed Forces: Hangman’s End<\/em><\/a> via Time<\/em>. Retrieved Nov. 11, 2025<\/p>

Nazi Executioner from Wichita Found Fame, but Died His Own Mysterious Death<\/a> via The Wichita Eagle<\/em>. Retrieved Nov. 11, 2025<\/p>

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Tim Queeney is the editor of\u00a0Ocean Navigator<\/em>, a magazine for offshore voyager. Tim\u2019s work has appeared in\u00a0Professional Mariner<\/em>,\u00a0American History<\/em>, and\u00a0Aviation History.<\/em>\u00a0He has had short stories published in the crime anthology\u00a0Landfall<\/em>, Best New England Crime Stories 2018 and in the speculative anthology\u00a0A Land Without Mirrors<\/em>. Tim lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, with his wife and a rescue dog, Frankie. A lifelong sailor, he teaches celestial navigation, radar navigation, and coastal piloting ashore\u2014where he tied plenty of knots and handled many a rope.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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