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Execution of Seyss-Inquart

Austria · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1946

Arthur Seyss-Inquart16 October 1946

Nuremberg Prison · Warfare / World War, 2nd

At 02:45 on 16 October 1946, Seyss-Inquart became the last of the ten men hanged, after making a final statement expressing hope that the execution would close the war's tragedy.

Names involved

Arthur Seyss-Inquart

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