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I noticed that in the first execution, where Albert took over, he places the noose the wrong way around.
Also from what I can remember, on the first day of the german executions there were ten men and three women, (Irma Grese, Elizabeth Volkenrath and Juanna Bormann) in the film there appears to be four women.

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That's the thing with Pierrepoint or most British executioners from Marwood, who came up with the drop table (but even Calcraft before him), they didn't derive pleasure from their work, they just did it as best, humane and efficient as they could.

And to the original poster: Yes, you're right. Three women and ten men were hanged on the first day after the Belsen trial.

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Another goof :

The right leg of nurse Dorothea Waddigham, when is placed over
the stretcher is rigid, the leg it would be better flaccid.
I suspect that Dorothea is not quite dead....

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