Eugen Weidmann, who has died aged 88, was one of the finest animal circus trainers of the post-war years and specialised in showing wild beasts and big cats. Handsome, elegant and always impeccably ...

On June 17, 1939, Eugen Weidmann—a slick, handsome 31-year-old German—became the last person to be publicly executed via guillotine in France. His journey toward being a trivia-question answer started ...

Some in the throng were journalists, some were police, others were there to make sure the condemned man, a German named Eugen Weidmann, was properly dispatched. Some whistled, some jeered, as Weidmann ...

Eugen Weidmann was a German criminal and serial murderer who was executed by guillotine in France in June 1939, the last public execution in that country. Unknown to authorities, film of the execution ...

One half of “The Typewriter and the Guillotine” is compelling, and it’s probably not the half you’d think. “The Typewriter” part of Mark Braude’s account of midcentury Paris is the better part (and it ...

Mark Braude's new book chronicles American journalist Janet Flanner and German serial killer Eugen Weidmann in Paris before WWII. Flanner wrote for The New Yorker, covering French culture and later ...

For two weeks in March 1939, as Hitler completed his annexation of Czechoslovakia and Europe braced for war, a lurid murder trial captivated Paris. Eugen Weidmann, a German drifter, had killed six ...

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