archive footage of executions

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Death row in wartime: British Pathe releases harrowing archive footage of executions during conflicts across the world

While Pathe didn’t shy away from screening very real and very harrowing footage films showing someone’s life end by execution were not generally shown to the public. Left: A man stands surrounded by a firing squad in a disused quarry just outside the town of Braunschweig, Germany in 1945. Top right: : Nazi spy, Richard Jarczyk is prepared for execution by an American soldier of the US Seventh Army. Bottom left: 1911 footage during the Italo–Turkish War which shows 12 lifeless bodies hanging from the gallows in a mass execution.