PIERREPOINT EXECUTION HOODS FROM HAMELIN PRISON DURING 1945-1948

Historically interesting Albert Pierrepoint and Hamelin Prison grouping, consisting of three white cloth linen execution hoods with ink stampings for the 'MILITARY GOVERNMENT 123 DET' Accompanied by a white cloth public witness armband with black printed 'P.U.'Printed permission slip allowing Telephone inspector Wilhelm Oster to enter the telephone office in Hamelin dated 18 May 1945, stating ''Please let bearer enter Post Office in order to see damage etc. He is the Director of telephones'' the pass being valid until the 24th May 1945. The last item in the grouping is an envelope with the reverse side having a ink hand written note in German from Hamelin dated 1948.
The Collection surfaced (at the time all items had been framed in a large picture frame along with contemporary photos of Kramer, Grese and Pierrepoint, all with home made captions) following the death of a refuse worker who had at one time cleared the items from Wilhelm Osters house.
Hamelin prison, was a very well known prison during WW2 and in the immediate aftermath. During the Third Reich the Gestapo used the prison to imprison ,interrogate and torture many of its victims. Following wars end it was again used as a prison and place of execution. War criminals the infamous Josef Kramer and Irma Grese were just two executions carried out by Pierrepoint during his work at Hamelin.
The most famous British Hangman in history, Albert Pierrepoint , was the head executioner for the British Government and it was he that was responsible for most all executions at Hamelin. Pierrepoint was born March 30th 1905 in Clayton Yorks. His father and his uncle were both executioners. In September 1932 he became an assistant executioner and conducted his first execution in December the same year. In 1941 he became lead executioner for H.M Prisons. In a 25 year career as hangman, it is believed that he executed circa 600 individuals, a large proportion convicted war criminals. He retired in the 1950's and became a pub landlord, in 1974 he wrote his memoirs.
A unique opportunity to own an execution hood of a Nazi war criminal possibly even the very hood that was used to dispatch Irma Grese or Josef Kramer!

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