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Willi Herold

1925 - 1946

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Willi Herold (11 September 1925 – 14 November 1946), also known as the Executioner of Emsland, was a Nazi German war criminal. Near the end of the Second World War in Europe, Herold deserted from the Luftwaffe and, posing as a captain, organized the mass execution of German deserters held at a prison camp. He was arrested by British forces and executed for war crimes on 14 November 1946 at Wolfenbüttel Prison. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Willi Herold is the 91st most popular extremist (down from 71st in 2019), the 1,549th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,291st in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Extremist.

Willi Herold is most famous for being the first person to fly an airplane solo across the English Channel.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Willi Herold ranks 91 out of 283. Before him are Fritz Honka, Madame de Brinvilliers, Pedro López, John Haigh, Shamil Basayev, and Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova. After him are Susan Atkins, John Christie, John List, Luis Garavito, James Earl Ray, and Johann Rattenhuber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Willi Herold ranks 109. Before him are Dettmar Cramer, William Styron, Michel Bouquet, Katherine MacGregor, David Elazar, and Zvi Zamir. After him are Gore Vidal, Alexandre do Nascimento, John List, Efim Geller, Georges Delerue, and Aliya Moldagulova. Among people deceased in 1946, Willi Herold ranks 57. Before him are Carl Schuhmann, Marcel Petiot, Anton Mussert, Rüdiger von der Goltz, Othenio Abel, and Shefqet Vërlaci. After him are Masaharu Homma, Miroslav Filipović, Hisaichi Terauchi, Alfred Stieglitz, Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Per Albin Hansson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Willi Herold ranks 1,549 out of 7,253. Before him are Annemarie Schimmel (1922), Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1831), Rudolf Diels (1900), William I, Duke of Bavaria (1330), Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg (1875), and Theodor Escherich (1857). After him are Carl Heinrich Graun (1704), Rudolf Caracciola (1901), Amschel Mayer Rothschild (1773), Henry III, Margrave of Meissen (1218), Alexander von Kluck (1846), and Ernst-Robert Grawitz (1899).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Germany

Among extremists born in Germany, Willi Herold ranks 10. Before him are Andreas Baader (1943), Peter Kürten (1883), Friedrich Jeckeln (1895), Fritz Haarmann (1879), Gudrun Ensslin (1940), and Fritz Honka (1935). After him are Johann Rattenhuber (1897), Monika Ertl (1937), Armin Meiwes (1961), Oskar Gröning (1921), Therese Brandl (1902), and Wilhelm Boger (1906).

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