Death row in wartime: British Pathe releases harrowing archive footage of executions during conflicts across the world
Death row in wartime: British Pathe releases harrowing archive footage of executions during conflicts across the world Executions were sometimes filmed, but not shown to public by Pathe The footage went straight to archive as it was deemed too harrowing With his sweaty hands bound behind his back and his face covered with a blindfold, the man's body convulsed as bullets riddled his torso. He was one of several Germans killed by a US military firing squad just outside the town of Braunschweig, Germany in 1945 because he deemed a spy. However two of the spies lined up in the disused quarry were in fact simply members of the Hitler youth, aged just 16 and 17 years old. They were gunned down and then dragged into the coffins which were in the ground nearby. The harrowing scene is just one of several images of death row in war time released by British Pathe. The film archive states: 'While Pathe didn’t shy away from screening very real and very harrowing footage of say the Holocaus...