(October 14, 2012 — Washington) Another research trip to the National Archives uncovered information on Johann Reichhart, probably Germany’s most prolific hangman of the last century. See how the U.S. Army hired Reichhart to hang dozens of his former employers in the Historical Sketches section.
Regarding the USS Indianapolis, our search found dozens of survivor hand-written accounts of the sinking, as well as finding that the Navy “sanitized” the archives’ file in the early 1990s of information regarding burials at sea of the dead.