This Date in history: February 28

On Wednesday, February 28, 1945, official executioner Master Sergeant John C. Woods hanged U.S. Army Private William C. Downes at Étienville, Manche, France for the crime of rape.  (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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Albert Forster, SS-Obergruppenführer, born July 26, 1902 in Fürth/Bavaria, Gauleiter of Danzig and Danzig–West Prussia, member of the Reichstag, winner of the Knight’s Cross of the War Service Cross, convicted of war crimes in Poland in 1947, executed by hanging on February 28, 1952 at Mokotów Prison in Warsaw, said of Heinrich Himmler and the Aryan race: “If I looked like Himmler, I would not talk about race!” (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)