Why Did The Nuremberg Executions Go So Wrong?

At the end of the Second World War, the most high profile war crimes trials were the Nuremberg Trials that saw many former members of Hitler's government and cabinet sentenced to death. However the Nuremberg Executions did not go well, and they went horrifically wrong for a number of reasons. They are considered botched executions but why did they go wrong?

One huge reason was that John C Woods, the US executioner made a number of terrible mistakes that led to the prolonged suffering ordeal. But also the gallows itself that the executions were performed on were poorly made. This led to the Nuremberg Executions going very wrong.

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