Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 2 May 1945

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

On the night of 18 November 18 Knight's screams woke her husband and sister in their home. They discovered Knight writhing in pain in her bed with her skin peeling off her back under her bedclothes. A doctor that was called identified the wounds as some form of burn and gave Knight morphine. She died from toxaemia.
(6 December 1943)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Wednesday 2nd of May 1945 79 years ago
KZ-Kommandant in Dachau Eduard Wilhelm Weiter commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 56 in Schloss Itter, Itter, Tirol, Austria. After drunkenly bragging about the recent executions he had ordered at Dachau, Weiter shot and killed himself.