Clarence Whitfield
On Monday, August 14, 1944, official British executioner Thomas Pierrepoint hanged U.S. Army Private Clarence Whitfield at Canisy, France for the crime of rape. A U.S. Army military aircraft had secretly flown Pierrepoint from England, as the Status of Forces Agreement between England and the United States had only permitted British hangman to conduct executions of American soldiers on British soil. (The Fifth Field: The Story of the 96 American Soldiers Sentenced to Death and Executed in Europe and North Africa in World War II)
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Konstantin von Neurath
Konstantin von Neurath, Foreign Minister of Germany, born February 2, 1873 in Klein Glattbach, Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (Reichsprotektor in Böhmen und Mähren) until 1943, convicted at Nürnberg of crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity, sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, released in 1954, died on August 14, 1956 on his family estate at Leinfelderhof, said in 1946 of Hermann Göring: “The same goes for the Czechoslovakian affair – ‘the fat one’ was responsible for that too – it was all his fault.” (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)