The bodies of three Japanese war criminals lie in coffins after being hanged by the U.S. military in Guam. The left and middle soldier had cannibalized multiple people. On one occasion, they killed a man, cannibalized him, and then fed part of him to his unsuspecting son, who they killed soon after.
On this day, Oswald Pohl, the head administrator of the Nazi concentration camp system, was executed by the U.S. at Landsberg. Thousands claimed he was innocent and demanded a full pardon. Ultimately, nothing would save Pohl and six others, who were deemed the prison’s absolute “worst of the worst”.