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The first execution in the Third Reich.

If you followed my videos on the executioners of the Third Reich, you will have seen how the number of executions fell during the Weimar Republic. It might have even been abolished had it not been for serial killer Peter Kürten whose crimes were so disgusting that no other punishment seemed possible. In the final five years of the Weimar Republic, he was the only person to be executed in Prussia. However by the beginning of the 1930s the pendulum was beginning to swing the other way. Political violence on the streets was one reason. Whereas few people were executed during the Weimar Republic, thousands faced the death penalty in Nazi Germany. The very first person to be executed in Nazi Germany was not a political opponent of the National Socialists but a common criminal, Ernst Reins. Ernst Reins was born on 14 August 1907 in Berlin Charlottenburg. Reins was the seventeenth child of a bricklayer who died at an early age . Of the seventeen children, only three survived infancy, a boy and two girls. The death of the father meant that very little money came into the household, this was exacerbated by the conditions that existed as a result of the First World War. Although he grew up in poverty, Reins was unusually intelligent and dreamed of being an architect. However there was no money for studies and thus he had to do the same job as his father, that of a bricklayer – something he detested. In 1927, Reins became engaged to a woman from a family that was much better off than he was. However in 1930 the depression hit, unemployment hit six million and Reins was one of them. Her parents considered that she was too good for him and she broke off the engagement. Embittered by this episode and seeking an escape from poverty, he sought an opportunity to quickly make a lot of money to finance his further training as an architect. In April 1931, Reins finally decided to attempt a robbery of a money mail carrier . Post office workers would visit people at home and give them money such as social security benefits or money that was sent to them. Such carriers in the central areas of Berlin may have had a lot of homes to visit and as such could be carrying a great deal of cash on them. On 29 April 1931, Reins noticed that a widow, Frau Möbius, had advertised a room in her house at Gossowstrasse 10 in Berlin-Schöneberg. He rented it under the name Erich Wiechl. He then went to the post office on Genthiner Strasse, where he made a postal order for 5 marks payable to Wiechl, with instructions to deliver it to the address on Gossowstrasse. Early in the morning of 1 May 1931, Reins moved into the room on the ground floor of the widow Möbius's house as the new tenant. Shortly thereafter, he requested that his landlady take his glasses to an optician for repairs. Therefore he was alone at home when the mail carrier, 52 year old Gustav Schwan came to the house. He had the postal order and the cash that accompanied it. Reins invited him into the apartment and, as identification, presented him with a business card in the name of Erich Wiechl with an address in Mödling near Vienna . When Schwan looked down to examine the business card, Reins struck him with a piece of lead pipe wrapped in linen and filled with sand. Reins fell down unconscious onto a chaise longe. The blow to his head killed him. Reins opened the mailman's wallet, took out all the cash, amounting to 13,500 Reichsmark , and left the scene. The money would have been equivalent to something like 12 – 18 years wages for him as a bricklayer. Reins had however left a number of clues for police investigators Draeger and Mielenz of the Berlin Homicide Squad. They quickly established that the alleged tenant of the apartment was a former taxi dancer at the Hotel Adlon who was now living in Vienna. A taxi dancer is someone employed by a dance studio or club, or in this case a high end hotel, who invites members of the opposite sex to dance. Wiechl was quickly ruled out as the perpetrator due to his whereabouts at the time of the crime, especially since Möbius's widow confirmed that he was not the man who had rented her room. Reins had left a shirt collar at the scene of the crime and the police were able to read a laundry mark from it. By tracing this laundry mark, as early as 4 May 1931 their number one suspect was Reins. Reins knew Wiechl from visits to the Hotel Adlon. He used to go there with his two Reins sisters who used to model clothes there. That same night, an international arrest warrant was issued for Reins. It did not take long for Reins to be found. He was staying in Genoa, Italy, at the Hotel Excelsior with his sisters. For whoever does the manual control at YouTube. The community guidelines are here : https://support.google.com/youtube/an... I suggest you read them. If you decide that this video is in breach of any of them, I suggest you tell me precisely where.