On exactly the same day that, 21 years earlier, 13-year-old Petra Giese was killed by Joachim ‘Jockel’ Kroll, the Ruhr Hunter, I sat on a chair and cut off all the clothes off my body. To my left hand a rope was tied, leading to an electric winch at the other end of the room, slowly dragging my body over the concrete floor. (23 April 1993)
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Kiosque d'Abbeville
Abbeville, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
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Monday 20th of May 1940 (-) — Leader of the Verdinaso Joris Van Severen is brutally murdered by drunken French partizans. Twenty one suspects of varying political stripe were selected and executed without trial.