Christmas was just one week away but there was little room for sentimentality in those times.
No, Canada had left tens of thousands of her sons planted in soil far from home. The Second World War still reverberated in the Canadian psyche.
And on Dec. 18, 1946, four diehard Nazis (plus a sex killer) climbed the fatal 13 wooden steps in a Lethbridge, Alta., jailhouse and were hanged by the neck until they were dead.
It would mark the last mass hanging in Canada.
Author and historian Nathan Greenfield has written the chilling Hanged in Medicine Hat, about the death cull that occurred seven decades ago. (more...)
'HANGED IN MEDICINE HAT:' New book details Nazi murders at POW camp
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