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Willi Herold

1925 - 1946

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Willi Herold (11 September 1925 – 14 November 1946), also known as "the Executioner of Emsland", was a German war criminal. Near the end of World War II in Europe, Herold deserted from the German Army and, posing as a Luftwaffe captain, organized the mass execution of German army deserters held at a prison camp. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willi Herold has received more than 853,848 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Willi Herold is the 74th most popular extremist (down from 61st in 2019), the 1,233rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,048th in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Extremist.

Willi Herold is most famous for being the first person to fly an airplane solo across the English Channel.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Willi Herold ranks 74 out of 209. Before him are Boris Savinkov, Jean II, Duke of Alençon, Henry Lee Lucas, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Ma Barker, and Richard Ramirez. After him are James Earl Ray, Robert-François Damiens, Carlo Gambino, Taha Yassin Ramadan, Oskar Gröning, and Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Willi Herold ranks 85. Before him are John DeLorean, Gabriele Amorth, Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, José Freire Falcão, Charles Chaplin Jr., and John Pople. After him are Gabriele Ferzetti, Paul Greengard, Honor Blackman, Oscar Peterson, Toshio Iwatani, and Robert Hardy. Among people deceased in 1946, Willi Herold ranks 52. Before him are Otto Georg Thierack, Francisco Largo Caballero, Inayatullah Khan, Rüdiger von der Goltz, Gustav Noske, and Per Albin Hansson. After him are Marcel Petiot, Clemens August Graf von Galen, Anton Mussert, Hisaichi Terauchi, Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov, and Henry Bergman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Willi Herold ranks 1,233 out of 6,142. Before him are Erich Heckel (1883), Johann II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1570), Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1530), Claudia Schiffer (1970), Gotthard of Hildesheim (960), and Max Hoffmann (1869). After him are Karin Schubert (1944), Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1837), Dorothea Binz (1920), Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria (1447), Princess Josephine of Baden (1813), and Theodor Busse (1897).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Germany

Among extremists born in Germany, Willi Herold ranks 9. Before him are Otto Ohlendorf (1907), Andreas Baader (1943), Peter Kürten (1883), Fritz Haarmann (1879), Gudrun Ensslin (1940), and Friedrich Jeckeln (1895). After him are Oskar Gröning (1921), Johann Rattenhuber (1897), Armin Meiwes (1961), Brigitte Mohnhaupt (1949), Ernst Zündel (1939), and Irmgard Möller (1947).

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