@Sara Bunting Last PUBLIC execution. Last execution was in 1977. Also the execution in 1939 was filmed from a window in an apartment, not in the crowd so the authorities didn't see it. You can find a video of it on youtube if you look up the guy's name.
Did you hear the one about the guy being led to the woods to be executed? It was a miserable rainy day. The condemned complained, "What a horrible day to be have to die!" The executioner calmly replied, "What are you complaining about? I'm the one who has to walk back to the castle in this lousy weather."
My Namo this is just another one of those fake education channels like Bright Side or The Richest, but the execution was filmed and someone posted it on youtube
I cant imagine the fear that comes knowing youre about to die. Imagine lying down under the guillotine and just waiting for it to drop while simultaneously counting and soaking up the last few seconds of your life while trying to squeeze in a prayer?? Too scary!
Most, although not all were murderers themselves. Scary serial and baby killers don't even think of their own horrific acts yet they sob knowing they will be killed. Convincted killers rarely face the death penalty anymore. Yet victims of murder face it every minute of every day.
@Cassie Jones Not during the reign of terror. During that time, the jakobins had anyone sent to the guillotine. You could be sent there for stealing bread, speaking sympathetically towards the royal family, anything the jakobins saw as “not inline with the values of the revolution”. Thousands of people, who weren’t even criminals, or only minor criminals, were sent to die by guillotine. It was a brutal time for the people of france.
We give ANIMALS the G ever single second of every day. That's not even the worst part in factory-farms (videos online as "farm to fridge" or glass walls that drugged, mutilated (debeak, tail-ear dock, brand, castrated, forcebred, drugged, caged) that Slaughter is far from the worst part but lifelong suffering
I was hoping this history would mention that the inventor of the guillotine ended up being a victim himself. Also, I believe that filthy creature Robespierre was beheaded facing the blade, if I remember correctly.
@martynw9166 The last ax execution in Germany happened in 1935. In the hands of a skilled executioner it was very quick and efficient. But then unlike the axqq in the Tower of London, German execution ax or richtbeil was designed for the purpose. It had a short haft, the head had a broad cutting edge and weighed about 12 pounds. It was raised to shoulder height and the weight of the falling blade provided sufficient momentum to carry out the execution cleanly. Witness descriptions of ax executions state that from the moment the victim was handed over to the executioner and his assistants everything happened very quickly. I doubt you'd have been anxious for long.
Oh, I'm sure the executioner will have never heard that one before. Go over about as well as saying to a customs officer, "These aren't the droids you're looking for."
The guy that played Saruman (Christopher Lee) in Lord of the rings was actually present at Weidman's execution. He was 17 at the time and said when the blade came down, he himself felt like he just died
Now that I think of it, he probably got a very good view of it too, considering he stood at 6'4" tall, which is way above the average height for an adult male at the time.
Dr. Guillotine presented his new "machine" to the King, Louis XVI the year the revolution started, just months before it began. If memory serves, the King rejected his idea because the guild of executioners didn't like it. They thought it was too easy and would diminish their professional skills. And they weren't wrong. Once it went into operation at the height of the revolution, it proved that almost anyone could be an executioner.
The device you're referring to is the breaking wheel, not the guillotine. Dr Guillotine wasn't the inventor, he was the one who proposed the executions should be more humane (meaning as painless as possible). In fact he didn't even like the mechanism was named after him and (unsuccessfully) tried to rename it. He was member of the committee that researched such matters and advisor to the National Assembly when the French Revolution started. The guillotine was designed during Louis XVI's time, however, and ironically he was the one who proposed the blade should be oblique. It was based on other European decapitation devices, and designed mainly by Antoine Louis (also physician and member of the committee), German engineer Tobias Schmidt, and the executioner Sanson who later wrote a memoir. The first (French) guillotine was used during the French Revolution, so Louis XVI wouldn't have been able to have a say.
If the criminal had had the empathy you're looking for he might not have committed the crime...and wouldn't be there, and neither would the old ladies knitting...
Scribbe Boy You are correct. It was the equivalent of the Salem Witch Trials where you could lie about your neighbor talking bad about the newly formed French Republic and that person would be arrested, pushed through a sham trial, and be decapitated. Since the United States had just gained independence at the time and the French Revolution did this. The reputation of Democracy and its ideals like that of Liberty and everything else the United States declared at the time. Many of the monarchies that surrounded France at the time and their subjects were disgusted with how Evil and savage the Revolution was and actually all quarantined the ideology of Democracy and attacked France all at once which Napoleon fought back which made him gain power and led to a Napoleon led France later on. I left out MANY MANY details and events but it’s quite SICKENING AND SAD how the Revolution for freedom turned into a literal dictatorship(The Reign of Terror it was called) and how many people were publicly executed because the Revolution must of had an execution fetish.
Janey Wilcox Was there mentioned in the video a group of men nonchalantly knitting while attending executions? No. If there had been I'd find it equally cold and creepy.
"So lemme get this straight, you won't kill me until I say my final words?" "Uh, I guess?" *clears throat* "Well then allow me to recount my whole life's story! It all began..."
It's true really. The head isn't very heavy. It would fall quite gently, and without much noise. It's what happens before it falls that is far from gentle.
DDinVT I don’t believe that’s technically a pun, a pun is making joke about a word that can mean two different things. I’d say it’s more of a play on words or innuendo.
Holy smokes! What is this, crap on DDinVT week? Just kidding. I was honestly not aware of the exact definition of pun, just it’s common use (or misuse). But, if you really want to point fingers here.... the Weird History Guy misused it 1st! I was just following his lead.... it’s ALL his fault!
Same. I’ve been trying to go to bed for an hour or two, promising myself, “only one more video” and can you guess what happened after every video? I watched another. And little did I know it’s now seven twelve in the morning.
It's interesting how these comments are never an attempt to make males seem sheltered and dull.
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Somewhat unrelated question: Did the lights really DIM at Sing Sing when Julie & Ethel Rosenberg (...."burg"?) "rode the lightening"? The execution was "late in the day"?
Executioner: Any last words? Me: **Ahem** Mr- and Mrs. Dursley, of number 4, were proud to say that they were prefectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last People you'd expect to be involved in- Executioner: What are you doing? Some random dude in the crowd: No wait let him finish!
Potterheads (including me) would say all the book first THEN also narrate the movie. Since the movie is about 19 hours long and the book would be a day long to read. big brain
"Was the guillotine humane?" As opposed to having your head hacked off by a sword, it was certainly a lot more efficient and quicker, considering that beheadings by sword or axe oftentimes would require multiple strikes to cleave the head from the condemned
Karl Smith actually they used a axe before the guillotine. Anne Boleyn was executed via a sword as it was a quicker death with one stroke of the sword vs the possible multiple hackings from a axe
In some countries stone throwing is still a way to publicly execute people. So, compared to having hundreds of rocks on you until you die, yes I think that is humane
@@haileyirene4713 True, but then again, in Anne Boleyn's case, the executioner was a master swordsman there were swordsman that served as the executioner that weren't as skilled
The scimitars used in the beheading in the Middle East don’t seem to have any trouble. Don’t recommend people looking it up, but it clearly was very efficient with a sword as long as it’s sharp. Edit: I mean the ones done by Saudi officials, rather than terrorists with journalists.
French people during WW2: Oh, please dont hurt me Mr. German sir French people at an execution: YES! BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!! STICK HIS HEAD ON A PIKE AND URINATE DOWN HIS ASOPHAGES!
I was playing Assassin's Creed: Unity, set during the French Revolution, and in-game there's a place in Paris that has a guillotine where they beheaded an NPC. Even just watching the virtual simulation was stomach turning. Couldn't imagine witnessing it in real life.
Exactly. I thought no one was going to comment on that. One sane, natural reaction at last after all that insane blood lust of the onlookers. Who the hell would watch anything like that for entertainment? What were people like back then, what lives must they have lead to gain so much lack of empathy? Death penalty is a crazy concept. Doesn´t prevent anything either.
I kind of wonder how to rate the dude traveling across the city in the middle of the night (probably no street lights, cabs, etc) to watch in the first place.
I was told that a condemned person agreed to be a guinea pig of sorts. A doctor in this era was curious as to whether this beheading caused instantaneous death and if not whether the condemned retained any consciousness and for how long. They devised a code where the beheaded person would blink in a certain sequence until they actually died with the doctor immediately holding the head up and observing it. Apparently the condemned person retained consciousness for a short while before actually dying. I forget how long they actually lived, but it was for a short time. I imagine there life would be flashing through their mind and hopefully getting right with their creator.
@@thelonelyipad8648 Aside from what’s already been mentioned - Marie not having any actual governmental power (aside from needing to pop out an heir) - she was actually very generous. She gave over $300k of her own personal allowance to various charities, financially supported numerous poor families, she established a home for women, she adopted 3 poor kids to be raised with her own, she had cottages built at Trianon so she could move poor families into them, she sold off royal silverware in order to purchase grain for poor families, she even had the royals eat cheaper grain so there was more for everyone else... She even designed a cheap, white dress for herself, because she didn’t like dressing up so fancily all the time, and she was still criticized for it. From day one, the French hated her and treated her terribly, using her as a scapegoat for everything that was wrong with pre-revolutionary France. Granted she’s not absolved from all responsibility, the idea that you can ignore so much truth and chalk her existence up to an implication of complete conceitedness is wild.
@ran ran That's not entirely accurate, both she and the king were well aware of the starvation of the people. She herself was somewhat ambivalent, however the King actually did care. Louis XVI was actually very sympathetic (he was a strong believer in the values of the enlightenment), but his power was heavily restrained by an aristocracy that didn't want to lose power. It's a common mistake to think that kings had unlimited power, but no person rules alone and even your average king has to compete with the nobility for authority. Anyway, my point is that it wouldn't have made a difference even if she was the most compassionate person in human history and had the king wrapped around her finger, nothing would change.
@@jasminejustice8129 Lots of wealthy people in the modern day donate money to charity, it's as much of a fashion statement as anything. In the modern day it's good because it's seen as a wealthy person portraying themselves as caring about causes, in Marie Antionette's day it was a show of Christian piety. My point is, she probably did some good, but it doesn't necessarily reflect her true character (we just don't know her motives enough to say that). I can imagine that being foreign didn't always make her popular, but you can't deny that despite her contributions her overall attitude towards the struggle of the poor (from some of the things she said) made her seem ambivalent at best. Not saying she was necessarily as evil as history likes to portray her, just that she was a woman who probably reflected the popular attitudes of her era and class. Which is to say that she was likely a lot less charitable and compassionate towards the poor than she needed to be, especially considering the volatility of those times.
Narrator: "The sawdust was there to soak up anything." Me: You mean blood? Narrator: "The rest was rolled into a cheap coffin." Me: You mean the body?!
Very odd and unnecessarily non specific choice of words he used. Like he can't say the word blood...or body...but he's talking about people geting decapitated by a guillotine. 😕
Are we not going to talk about the fact that Louis xvi was the one who invented the blade being on an angle making the cut cleaner? The blade was originally straight and Louis changed that which ironically made his death better later in life
He suggested the idea after banning the wheel. It was the Jacobins that used it since they thought it was more humane. That wasn't the method of capital punishment under the crown
7:44 ok the fact that "the head seemed to be aware of the situation" really creeped me out ngl, the person was conscious and showed signs of being still alive
We still must be pretty bored. It's still one of our favorite forms of entertainment. The movie industry is built on violence for the most part. Sure people arent really dying, but still death attracts us.
Those that watch MMA fights and all that aren’t much different. Watching people get half beat to death, sometimes actually dying like the dude recently. Watched that video cuz I was curious how the people reacted to seeing it and most didn’t get that he was in serious trouble. The barbaric acts like that are still thriving today
People in this era : We love God Also them *Like watching people die* Edit : Some of y'all are overreacting the whole thing. This was just a joke but you come at me as If i want to be jesus or idk. I'm a christian myself but some christians here are just sensitive and rude. If my comment don't please you just scroll down but don't bother yourself writing hate comments that i won't respond to.
Fun Fact: Sometimes a Executioner would face the head of the victim towards his/her own body after the deed was done so they can see their own bodies for 10 seconds before the head died as well.
Interesting lesson. With a bit more context, you forgot to mention Maximillian Robespierre, the public safety officer onto whom the revolution he conjured turned against. If not literally, metaphorically, history repeats itself.
" the eyes seem to retain speculation for a moment or two and there was a look in the ghastly stare with which they stared upon the crown which implied that the head was aware of the ignominious situation . " My brain just imagined all that shiz and now I know I'm certainly going to have a nightmare tonight .
Being a Headsman would be a dream job for me.I would have absolutely loved it.There is something very arousing about decapitation,it turns me on Big Time.
I’ve worked as a nurse in palliative care, and sometimes encountering death makes me vomit too. It’s like the presence of the spirit of death brushing past you makes you physically sick.
I could never work in a hospital, if I saw a bad bloody injury I would pass out and if someone died I’d have the same reaction as you, just puke my guts out
Starlight Barking you can easily acclimatise to all patterns of hauntings. Remember this, if you have previously shown respect and care to patients before their time of death, they will in spirit return you favours like protecting you. Therefore, you have nothing to fear or worry, that is, if you are a good person, a prayerful type. If you ever feel wind blasts inside hospital rooms, that is nothing for you to worry about. When a person dies and its soul makes wind blast inside room, just let go of your fear. That is just a soul leaving from one plane to another. It is soul projection or channel crossing. Stay in hospital and continue working as a nurse. When you sense shadows flitting from corner to corner of places, stop your worrying and pray for self-protection. Souls who flit in high speed cast shadows in air. It is really nothing to worry, if they are mild souls. Let them haunt in peace. When you find wandering souls or mild poltergeists, just always pray for God's mercy upon their souls. There are many broken souls who need nice prayers, not exorcism. When you pray for them, not against them, they will return you favours, their way of showing their gratitude. I live in haunted home with clandestine hauntings by mostly family ghosts and a spirit protector. I also work in a haunted workplace. Honestly, I feel 10000 times safer there than be alone with living dangerous people like stalkers, rapists, murderers, terrorists, etc. At home and work, I sometimes pick up somethings of hauntings. I always relax when the air is calm and serene, the air light and happy. When something is unsettling the air, it means I have an intruder in the proximity and my guardian makes winds inside rooms and through corridors and stairs. He removes all dangers from my path. He throws hardened criminals off their balance and sends them fleeing in fright. That spirit ensures my safety. He has previously saved my life over 20 times and responded to many emergencies like few heart attacks, brain haemorrhages, fires, choking, etc. He even once surprised a woman surgeon and nurses in a theatre where I was brought in for a vaginal cyst removal. He gave her confidence and guided her scalpel. The surgery went smoothly, while spirit eased my blood circulation during surgery. The surgeon extracted an enormous amount of cyst fats that was roughly 1000ml. After surgery, I awoke free of pain, no pains in the stitches. That surprised the staff. Over the next two weeks, I had still no pains and no infections appeared in the stitched area.
Valiantcat7780 I have witnessed few deaths in a local hospital. My late father died in peace. He was given morphine or relaxant and that helped reduce his fear of death. He had an easy death which wasn't painful or traumatic. I know what it is like to die, as I had NDE or Shared Death Experience. Today, my father's spirit haunts my workplace that was his in former life. I never think of my father as dead, as his spirit lives.
I've been in 3 situations (nursing homes) when a relative has died. Most recent, my wife's grandmother. When she died, lying in bed, my father-in-law holding her hand... I said, "she's no longer with us." My wife went to get a nurse, looked for a pulse, checked her (lack of) breathing... pronounced dead within a minute after I knew. It was freaky, cause I felt her die.
I visited a young woman in hospital with bowel cancer. 3 weeks earlier she looked healthy enough. I was with other people thank goodness. When I walked into the room my eyes met hers. I saw death starring back. I was so surprised and shocked. I was so dismayed that she would have seen this on my face. I was totally unprepared for what I would see. She died a short time later. Whew.
Modern technology has yet to improve on it. Hangings are easy to botch; electric chairs malfunction; gas chambers take too long; lethal injections drag out while medtechs look for veins on arms frequently ravaged by IV drug use. A rifle to the back of the head works and is cheap but is also even more graphic than the guillotine and damaging to the ears.
@@shane99ca The head stays alive for a while. It takes the brain about 3 minutes to die, so the beheaded person, even if unconscious, can still have dreams.
@@billolsen4360 If you want to get technical, the muscles stay alive for hours. Death is and always was a process, barring complete disintegration. Unconsciousness, however, is not the same thing as sleep. Unconsciousness is dreamless, and the dying man wouldn't remember any dreams even if it weren't.
@@billolsen4360 Not true. The massive blood loss kills the brain in a matter of 30 seconds, TOPS. More usually, shock and trauma plus the blood loss makes brain death almost immediate.
Pia Dylan poor girl didn’t deserve that She actually was one of the only people to geed the poor and try to help The “let them eat cake” quote was said by someone else years earlier
@@lesvernornvienas8232 She really wasn't evil like the lower class and people to this day make her out to be, anyone would know if they'd do the slightest bit of non-bias research on her. Sadly people just love hatting on every rich person ever.
Imagine the kind of fear, waiting in a wooden wagon for your turn, knowing in a couple of minutes, you wouldn't be breathing anymore. Especially if the person was innocent, or charged for Petty crime. Just thinking about it terrifies me. I have absolutely no clue and Louis and Marie died so respectfully.
Here in Pennsylvania (U.S.A.) near Towanda there was the community called French Alizum. There was a large home built called La Grande Maison for Marie Antoinette and her children if they were able to escape France. 🇺🇸
Several years ago I went to Vietnam and the Hanoi Hilton has a working Guillotine that was an artifact from the French occupation. It was not used by the Vietnamese, but the French. If you check the stats, the Nazis used the Guillotine on more French people during the occupation than the French did during the Revolution
You're right about the Nazis' use of the guillotine. Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans and Christian Probst and other members of the White Rose resistance group were executed that way.
The new nazi's are turned loose in amerika (what's left of it these days, which isn't much) and hoping to bring the guillotine back into public favor. We have douchebag donnie to thank for this. His pathologically delusional followers would shame a fucking serial killer's conscience.
@@davidowens5898 typical BS statement from someone who clearly has stuck his head up his arse. - strange how you your-self pathologically spew violence & hate while claiming others are pathologically delusional for spewing violence & hate
The Guillotine was modeled on an earlier Scottish invention that became known as > The Maiden < Perhaps the Town of Maidenhead in the county of Berkshire - England is hoe the town acquired its name. One of my cousins resided in this town - prior to relocating to Stockpot in the North of England
"I see that you have made three spelling mistakes." - final words of Thomas de Mahy, Marquis de Favras upon reading his death warrant before being guillotined in 1790.
Luna - i bet everyone that doesn't like her are french... they think that Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are the reason of the bankruptcy of the france, when Louis XIV is the main reason because of his pushing to build that "Palace of Versailles" even when the france is already bankrupt cause of building that luxurious palace.
Guillotine lynchings burning killing war slavery exploiting human trafficking. everything was common and happening before democracy took over. It has a long history in human culture. That doesn't mean it isn't happening yet what do you think dark web is available for?
@@learniteasy8146 some people are so blind man its sicking people ask me y dont you have kids for what this world is sick dark web is an example its there lets just turn the cheek
says you, Kevin, hehe. If we put on a bibcam we could televise the closeups. And have a pool on whether the eyes open and shut. Some of those Japanese game shows are brutal, almost that bad. Waiver time and a free case of soylent ham to the widow...
Starwarsrap1 I remember being a child in the early 2000’s and my parents were talking to me and my sister about how the world was different when they were young. They told us death penalty was still a thing a few years ago and that they themselves voted for the abolition of the death penalty (1981). So we asked how the people were being killed and they were like “I’m pretty sure they were beheaded by a guillotine.” like it was no biggie.
They still have it today. In the US they have around 50,000 in storage still brand new. I have a book that shows criminals' heads cut off after receiving the guillotine and some heads stayed alert for half a minute. They even hooked wires up to some of them & attached the wire to a battery then blew a horn in the ear or something to that effect to see the reaction if any by the head. Morbid shit I tell u
I remember reading an article in a magazine about a guy in France that had a portable Guillotine and he would drive to the Prison where the beheading would take place and according to the article the prisoner was never sure when the execution would take place. I believe I read that late '50's early '60's.
that is correct, the guillotine was the prperty of the executioner he and his assistants would set the machine up in the prison courtyard, and if voces were heard at 5 am on death row, all the condemed new one of them would die in a few minutes. for the condemmed were never told what day they would die, they just knew monsiour de paris had arrived.
Aaron Lozano I remember him talking about that....he was a little freaked out. I love Christopher Lee, super cool guy. Wish he could have lived forever.
@@kendallcaminiti-hess2243 I guess that also changed how he behaved when facing a murder. Remember how calmly he advised Peter Jackson about how it _really_ sounds like when someone is getting stabbed in his back?
Henry G Although tar and feathers usually doesn’t kill, it really depends on what you’re using to stick the feathers. For example, if you use asphalt to tar and feather someone it could be very life threatening. This is because it covers up your pores on your skin.
Bloodshed, horror, tortures and death make people feel excited and euphoric. No wonder there are plenty of very popular horror movies and gruesome websites; and in the past, when public executions were allowed, were always one of the best entertainment surrounded by mass crowd, even the hotels nearby were all booked like celebrating a huge festival.
Weirdly enough this is actually similar to the lynchings that happened in the southern US. A lot of people would watch the hanging, have picnics, things of that nature.
“Secretly recorded him” You’d have to be blind to miss those big cameras of that era .
Connor O’Hagan 1939.
@Sara Bunting Last PUBLIC execution. Last execution was in 1977.
Also the execution in 1939 was filmed from a window in an apartment, not in the crowd so the authorities didn't see it. You can find a video of it on youtube if you look up the guy's name.
Jack Stacey no it was 1977 of you use google it says the last one was done in France in 1977 then stopped all capital punishment in 1981
Sara Bunting 1977 not 1939 use google and search it up
Jeff21killer Sep Yes, the last one was 1977, but we’re talking about the last *public* one which was secretly filmed… 1939.
Human beings are officially the weirdest thing on this planet.
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I think you mean the french
TrainBoyBen fucking bread people
@@WBCY2024 I love their bread! Don't be rude.
if you think this is bad look up the toy box killer
I think that, compared to other ways to die at the time, the guillotine was fairly humane.
Firing squad is better
As in a more humane
Firing squad isn’t really though. Science has shown head will die fairly fast
It was supposed to be more humane
Its still pretty humane.
Did you hear the one about the guy being led to the woods to be executed? It was a miserable rainy day. The condemned complained, "What a horrible day to be have to die!" The executioner calmly replied, "What are you complaining about? I'm the one who has to walk back to the castle in this lousy weather."
Well I guess if the day AFTER was also a rainy day the executioner might have a point.
*Marie Antoinette has left the chat*
She has left the world
Lemme fix that for you
*Marie Antoinette was removed from the chat*
That's one on the gang Marie
*Marie Antoinette’s head was removed from the chat*
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Hearing him say “secretly filmed” in that time is surreal to me
news flash: this channel do be fake
the thing was filmed though
iiMaksim ?????
My Namo this is just another one of those fake education channels like Bright Side or The Richest, but the execution was filmed and someone posted it on youtube
iiMaksim eh idc it’s fun to watch and coool
Perhaps someone filmed it out of the window with an old kamera
My last words would be “so no head?”
Okay this is underrated
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So this is head
Me to my crush: “Hey I wanted to see if you’d like to watch the execution with me tomorrow?🤞🏻”
LMAO
How romantic
Imagine right after the blade falls, the guy makes the move.
You bf be the victim
The crush who was being executed for the murder of 27 children and the theft of a pineapple: Yeah ok, its not like I got anything else to do.
I cant imagine the fear that comes knowing youre about to die. Imagine lying down under the guillotine and just waiting for it to drop while simultaneously counting and soaking up the last few seconds of your life while trying to squeeze in a prayer?? Too scary!
Most, although not all were murderers themselves. Scary serial and baby killers don't even think of their own horrific acts yet they sob knowing they will be killed. Convincted killers rarely face the death penalty anymore. Yet victims of murder face it every minute of every day.
@Cassie Jones
Not during the reign of terror.
During that time, the jakobins had anyone sent to the guillotine. You could be sent there for stealing bread, speaking sympathetically towards the royal family, anything the jakobins saw as “not inline with the values of the revolution”. Thousands of people, who weren’t even criminals, or only minor criminals, were sent to die by guillotine. It was a brutal time for the people of france.
@@brittanyboyer3891 you are right about that. According to Revelations it will happen again. I feel for the innocent.
@@woodstyleah unfortunately, you are right.
@@woodstyleah What Revelations?
Weird History: Always a head of the competition.
The pun intended edition
Hey shouldn't you be on a Late Show video?
Underrated comment. 😂
This video cuts to the chase. 🤷♂️
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lmao my trembling ass probably would've died of sudden cardiac arrest before the blade even gets dropped
Lmao same
Ha😅
same
We give ANIMALS
the G ever single second of every day. That's not even the worst part in factory-farms (videos online as "farm to fridge" or glass walls that drugged, mutilated (debeak, tail-ear dock, brand, castrated, forcebred, drugged, caged) that Slaughter is far from the worst part but lifelong suffering
VeganMotorcyclePilot no one gives a shit. I’m gonna go eat a burger now
The narrator and the researchers deserve their own TV show. I've never been so entertained by learning about history before finding this channel
Fun fact: in some cases, the executioner would face the criminal face up, to allow them to see the blade falling.
Jesus... that must be the scariest thing to ever witness... France was brutal!
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It's easy to remain unmoved by a detail like that, if you just think of what their victim saw in _their_ last moments of life.
Probably for the criminal's pleasure
I was hoping this history would mention that the inventor of the guillotine ended up being a victim himself. Also, I believe that filthy creature Robespierre was beheaded facing the blade, if I remember correctly.
"Someone in the crowd even secretly filmed the whole thing." Guess I know what I'm searching next.
kimi what?!
kimi a what on youtube
*GIVE US THE LINK*
@kimi really?
@kimi thanks
“Kids would be hanging off tree branches” sounds wrong
Yes
Logan paul would be fuming not being able to record that
Emir Tatari lol haha that’s a good one
the colored kids, yea.
@@JB-vt5sz tbh i dont think france was as..... aggressive as america when it came to that
I think the punishment is the walk to the guillotine itself. The anxiety would be excruciatingly more painful than the actual execution
The guillotine was also called the regretful climb, for that reason
Guillotine is a piece of theatre a slow pace and then dramatic quick end
One would be anxious walking to the guillotine, but my anxiety would be far, far worse if I was facing an execution with a hand-held axe.
@@martynw9166 at least the execution would be very rapid
@martynw9166 The last ax execution in Germany happened in 1935. In the hands of a skilled executioner it was very quick and efficient. But then unlike the axqq in the Tower of London, German execution ax or richtbeil was designed for the purpose. It had a short haft, the head had a broad cutting edge and weighed about 12 pounds. It was raised to shoulder height and the weight of the falling blade provided sufficient momentum to carry out the execution cleanly. Witness descriptions of ax executions state that from the moment the victim was handed over to the executioner and his assistants everything happened very quickly. I doubt you'd have been anxious for long.
People back then “honey for our date tonight would you rather go out for Italian or see that dudes head get chopped off?”
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How to get bitches 102
Call it "dinner and a show"
aaaah those were the days.
My last words would be, “not too much off the top please.”
Fucking gold 😂😂😂
🤭 I WILL NOT LAUGH AT THISSSS 🥴😩
Oh, I'm sure the executioner will have never heard that one before. Go over about as well as saying to a customs officer, "These aren't the droids you're looking for."
@Midnight Kitten I feel it in my bones, that there is a reference to something here.
There was a medieval Jester who famously said this before getting executed by the enemy
This was so popular. People were losing their heads over this!
Literally
i hate this
Of course 😂
This is my last day......
Z_r0ugh what u mean?
The guy that played Saruman (Christopher Lee) in Lord of the rings was actually present at Weidman's execution. He was 17 at the time and said when the blade came down, he himself felt like he just died
Christopher Lee was so metal. Quite literally. He recorded heavy metal albums.
But he was there.
That's not by chance code for "I wet myself", now is it? ;-)
Christopher also played in the movie French Revolutionary as an executer
Now that I think of it, he probably got a very good view of it too, considering he stood at 6'4" tall, which is way above the average height for an adult male at the time.
"yo danny you free tonight?"
"Nahh im caught up, guillotine show tonight"
😂
OK boomer
Horrible but true...
Oof
obviously they'd be both going to the execution together
“Hide your neck.”
Me: *ENHANCE DOUBLE CHIN*
Nice
Amazing Micah335 wtf 😂😂
Lol
0:31
Moonless Night yea how about the back side? hmmmmmm
In high school, my history teacher had a guillotine replica and every morning would cut a pineapple with it for breakfast
Lmao what a fucking unit
Sounds dubious
Press. F to doubt
Shocking
Shaun Burns bruh F? F is for pay respects
Dr. Guillotine presented his new "machine" to the King, Louis XVI the year the revolution started, just months before it began. If memory serves, the King rejected his idea because the guild of executioners didn't like it. They thought it was too easy and would diminish their professional skills. And they weren't wrong. Once it went into operation at the height of the revolution, it proved that almost anyone could be an executioner.
Another story of machines taking away our jobs
The device you're referring to is the breaking wheel, not the guillotine.
Dr Guillotine wasn't the inventor, he was the one who proposed the executions should be more humane (meaning as painless as possible). In fact he didn't even like the mechanism was named after him and (unsuccessfully) tried to rename it. He was member of the committee that researched such matters and advisor to the National Assembly when the French Revolution started.
The guillotine was designed during Louis XVI's time, however, and ironically he was the one who proposed the blade should be oblique. It was based on other European decapitation devices, and designed mainly by Antoine Louis (also physician and member of the committee), German engineer Tobias Schmidt, and the executioner Sanson who later wrote a memoir.
The first (French) guillotine was used during the French Revolution, so Louis XVI wouldn't have been able to have a say.
The gentleman was Dr Guillotin...without the final "e" and was pronounced as Gee-yoo-tahn (short nasal "n")
Not gonna lie, if I saw a group of granny lookin women knitting at a mass execution I'd be a little scared too. That's cold!
If the criminal had had the empathy you're looking for he might not have committed the crime...and wouldn't be there, and neither would the old ladies knitting...
Ah it's just business as usual, seen it, been there, done that lol
Scribbe Boy You are correct. It was the equivalent of the Salem Witch Trials where you could lie about your neighbor talking bad about the newly formed French Republic and that person would be arrested, pushed through a sham trial, and be decapitated. Since the United States had just gained independence at the time and the French Revolution did this. The reputation of Democracy and its ideals like that of Liberty and everything else the United States declared at the time. Many of the monarchies that surrounded France at the time and their subjects were disgusted with how Evil and savage the Revolution was and actually all quarantined the ideology of Democracy and attacked France all at once which Napoleon fought back which made him gain power and led to a Napoleon led France later on. I left out MANY MANY details and events but it’s quite SICKENING AND SAD how the Revolution for freedom turned into a literal dictatorship(The Reign of Terror it was called) and how many people were publicly executed because the Revolution must of had an execution fetish.
And the men watching it is not cold?? GTFO
Janey Wilcox Was there mentioned in the video a group of men nonchalantly knitting while attending executions? No. If there had been I'd find it equally cold and creepy.
"So lemme get this straight, you won't kill me until I say my final words?"
"Uh, I guess?"
*clears throat* "Well then allow me to recount my whole life's story! It all began..."
Lol i was looking for this comment
Lmao that's gonna be one loooooooooong sentence
With a Big Bang when the universe began....................................
they'd get tired and kill you anyways
unrepentant but wait it gets interesting!
Danton's last words were addressed to his executioner. He said to him: "Don't forget to show my head to the people. It's well worth seeing."
So, Danton must have been in love with his own looks
😖😖
Sounds like Danton.
It was really the reverse.. They used to make sure the 'Head saw the People'
some nice rooms for rented overlooking the action for the single purpose of sex parties, women worked themselves up into a frenzy
After hearing about this, the Hunger Games being a massive event doesn’t sound so unrealistic
When you tell the hairdresser to only cut the ends
@oH yOu'Re nAnA? This is so underrated
Ironic
I spotted a bored nctzen here like me HAHHAHAHAHA
Blue Junnie jup😂😂
@@ALLY-ir1iq I really like lucas too😭
Marie Antoinette : Aight imma head out.
😂😂😂😂😂
Lol head out literally
we ‘saw’ that coming
More like: "Aight my head out"
@@krakerbingo indeed
Headache? Don't you mean "pain in the neck"?
You: *surprises girlfriend with front row tickets to the town execution*
Her: ❤️👄❤️
imao
"It's true love, ladies & gentlemen."
"The head would gently fall into..."
ARE YOU KIDDING ME
Lmao
what would you think will happen?
@@mintbrisk5961 boinggg
It's true really. The head isn't very heavy. It would fall quite gently, and without much noise. It's what happens before it falls that is far from gentle.
@@DreamBelief confessions of a serial killer
He should have use the pun “pain in the neck”, rather than “a headache”
DDinVT stolen comment
Goodness!! I guess next time I’ll scroll through all 2,200 comments & make sure anything I have to say is totally original!!!
DDinVT I don’t believe that’s technically a pun, a pun is making joke about a word that can mean two different things. I’d say it’s more of a play on words or innuendo.
Holy smokes! What is this, crap on DDinVT week? Just kidding. I was honestly not aware of the exact definition of pun, just it’s common use (or misuse). But, if you really want to point fingers here.... the Weird History Guy misused it 1st! I was just following his lead.... it’s ALL his fault!
@@DDinVT lmao they're going ham on you.
How the hell did someone secretly filming ANYTHING in 1939? The cameras back then must have been the size of a human being!
Public execution with a big crowd. If I remember someone filmed it from behind and an elevated position.
From a iPhone
Then uploaded it on Snapchat
It was a an etch a sketch rendering...
With a flipbook
“Kids would be hanging off of nearby tree branches”
Weird kids.🤨
Lmao😭
Time stamp?
That can be... ooh... that needs some rephrasing.
Me: "Ok, time to be productive"
Me 3 hours later:
Same. I’ve been trying to go to bed for an hour or two, promising myself, “only one more video” and can you guess what happened after every video? I watched another. And little did I know it’s now seven twelve in the morning.
Dude i swear were living the same life
American women in the 1930s- Cooking and watching the opera.
French women in the 1930s- Knitting and watching head rolls.
grafvonstauffenburg it’s a joke
grafvonstauffenburg YESSIR
@ guillotine use continued up until and somewhat after WWII.....
It's interesting how these comments are never an attempt to make males seem sheltered and dull.
Somewhat unrelated question: Did the lights really DIM at Sing Sing when Julie & Ethel Rosenberg (...."burg"?) "rode the lightening"? The execution was "late in the day"?
Executioner: Any last words?
Me: **Ahem** Mr- and Mrs. Dursley, of number 4, were proud to say that they were prefectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last People you'd expect to be involved in-
Executioner: What are you doing?
Some random dude in the crowd: No wait let him finish!
that's a good one, and end up doing the whole series!
Ohh nice one for the Potterheads!😅
Potterheads (including me) would say all the book first THEN also narrate the movie. Since the movie is about 19 hours long and the book would be a day long to read. big brain
Yes.
Yes muggles are normal unlike wizards
Crazy how only 100 years later, the common masses are now traumatized from seeing the death of a human
"Was the guillotine humane?"
As opposed to having your head hacked off by a sword, it was certainly a lot more efficient and quicker, considering that beheadings by sword or axe oftentimes would require multiple strikes to cleave the head from the condemned
Karl Smith actually they used a axe before the guillotine. Anne Boleyn was executed via a sword as it was a quicker death with one stroke of the sword vs the possible multiple hackings from a axe
In some countries stone throwing is still a way to publicly execute people. So, compared to having hundreds of rocks on you until you die, yes I think that is humane
@@poopy4555 True, it leaves the most obvious signs of how the person had died too
@@haileyirene4713 True, but then again, in Anne Boleyn's case, the executioner was a master swordsman
there were swordsman that served as the executioner that weren't as skilled
The scimitars used in the beheading in the Middle East don’t seem to have any trouble. Don’t recommend people looking it up, but it clearly was very efficient with a sword as long as it’s sharp. Edit: I mean the ones done by Saudi officials, rather than terrorists with journalists.
My last words would be, " and PBS was made possible by viewers like you."
I'm screaming 😂😂😂😂
Public beheading service??
Sean Howell OH GOSH WHAT
*_the Morton arboretum-_*
"Thank you."
Imagine living in a country that seems friendly but it’s nothing but a bunch of psychopaths
Thats just Canada in a shel nut
@@joshuahmitchell873 , it's funny because it's true!
Oh u talking bout U.S.A?
Every country has psychopaths.
French people during WW2: Oh, please dont hurt me Mr. German sir
French people at an execution: YES! BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!! STICK HIS HEAD ON A PIKE AND URINATE DOWN HIS ASOPHAGES!
I was playing Assassin's Creed: Unity, set during the French Revolution, and in-game there's a place in Paris that has a guillotine where they beheaded an NPC. Even just watching the virtual simulation was stomach turning. Couldn't imagine witnessing it in real life.
I have a lot of respect for the humanity of Albert Camus' father. The world needs more people like him.
Exactly. I thought no one was going to comment on that. One sane, natural reaction at last after all that insane blood lust of the onlookers. Who the hell would watch anything like that for entertainment? What were people like back then, what lives must they have lead to gain so much lack of empathy? Death penalty is a crazy concept. Doesn´t prevent anything either.
@@Punki80 People are still that way, unfortunately.
'Notes On The Guillotine' is an excellent read, well worth it.
I kind of wonder how to rate the dude traveling across the city in the middle of the night (probably no street lights, cabs, etc) to watch in the first place.
@@Punki80 death penalty is a proven deterrence. Learn facts.
“Slapped her cheeks”
“It made her face blush”
-ARandomFrenchExecutioner
Kinda hot
A blushing bride.
The person who slapped Charlotte Corday's face after execution actually did three months in prison.
"Slapped her cheeks"
Now replace the first S with C
kinky
Gotta love the timing of commercials.
“The sawdust was there to soak up the...”
“Holiday cookies anyone?”
"Let them eat cake." 🎂🥮🍰👸
No lmaooooo “long hair goals “ L’Oréal ad💀🤣
@@dubuyajay9964 Let them get Premium. :P
Why is everybody on UA-cam shut you fucking hilarious idiot
@@dubuyajay9964 Do you even know what “cake e” is You have to learn first how to bake bread in the olden time stove
I was told that a condemned person agreed to be a guinea pig of sorts. A doctor in this era was curious as to whether this beheading caused instantaneous death and if not whether the condemned retained any consciousness and for how long. They devised a code where the beheaded person would blink in a certain sequence until they actually died with the doctor immediately holding the head up and observing it. Apparently the condemned person retained consciousness for a short while before actually dying. I forget how long they actually lived, but it was for a short time. I imagine there life would be flashing through their mind and hopefully getting right with their creator.
Reminder that Tom was sentenced to the guillotine in an episode of Tom and Jerry.
Oh Yea I remember that episode!
Same, that was so dark
"Ce la' guerre"
yeah in the episode "the three mouseketeers"
I remember that episode lol
I like to imagine that Marie was actually being sassy and sarcastic ie "oh I'm sorry did I step on your foot? Please forgive my act of violence"
@Sasha Braus she had a lavish life even while France was starving so she isn’t that innocent.
Well the executioner got her back lmao
@@thelonelyipad8648 Aside from what’s already been mentioned - Marie not having any actual governmental power (aside from needing to pop out an heir) - she was actually very generous. She gave over $300k of her own personal allowance to various charities, financially supported numerous poor families, she established a home for women, she adopted 3 poor kids to be raised with her own, she had cottages built at Trianon so she could move poor families into them, she sold off royal silverware in order to purchase grain for poor families, she even had the royals eat cheaper grain so there was more for everyone else... She even designed a cheap, white dress for herself, because she didn’t like dressing up so fancily all the time, and she was still criticized for it. From day one, the French hated her and treated her terribly, using her as a scapegoat for everything that was wrong with pre-revolutionary France. Granted she’s not absolved from all responsibility, the idea that you can ignore so much truth and chalk her existence up to an implication of complete conceitedness is wild.
@ran ran That's not entirely accurate, both she and the king were well aware of the starvation of the people. She herself was somewhat ambivalent, however the King actually did care. Louis XVI was actually very sympathetic (he was a strong believer in the values of the enlightenment), but his power was heavily restrained by an aristocracy that didn't want to lose power.
It's a common mistake to think that kings had unlimited power, but no person rules alone and even your average king has to compete with the nobility for authority. Anyway, my point is that it wouldn't have made a difference even if she was the most compassionate person in human history and had the king wrapped around her finger, nothing would change.
@@jasminejustice8129 Lots of wealthy people in the modern day donate money to charity, it's as much of a fashion statement as anything. In the modern day it's good because it's seen as a wealthy person portraying themselves as caring about causes, in Marie Antionette's day it was a show of Christian piety.
My point is, she probably did some good, but it doesn't necessarily reflect her true character (we just don't know her motives enough to say that). I can imagine that being foreign didn't always make her popular, but you can't deny that despite her contributions her overall attitude towards the struggle of the poor (from some of the things she said) made her seem ambivalent at best.
Not saying she was necessarily as evil as history likes to portray her, just that she was a woman who probably reflected the popular attitudes of her era and class. Which is to say that she was likely a lot less charitable and compassionate towards the poor than she needed to be, especially considering the volatility of those times.
Narrator: "The sawdust was there to soak up anything."
Me: You mean blood?
Narrator: "The rest was rolled into a cheap coffin."
Me: You mean the body?!
*B E C A R E F U L O F T H E D E M O N I T I Z A T I O N M A N*
LMAO
Very odd and unnecessarily non specific choice of words he used. Like he can't say the word blood...or body...but he's talking about people geting decapitated by a guillotine. 😕
@@charris5700 lol exactly. I just thought it was funny
I mean blood AND sweat AND tears could be soaked up. Sweat because it could be hot af and tears cause...yeah
It is an experience that people are losing their heads over.
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
Every sports fan in America: “Buffalo Bills fans are really weird....”
France up until the late 1930s: “Hold my beer....”
this is the 4th time this week I saw a "hold my...." joke!!!
argggg!!!! it's not clever, funny or original!!!
why?!?!?!
You can't say that now. We have a reason to be weird. We are actually doing good this season
US southern states up until the late 1960s: "Hold my Coca-Cola..."
No class, it's hold my wine not beer!
Mr3344555 my apologizes. Hold my baguette and my beret***
The severed heads, remained conscious for up to 30seconds, blinking, and trying to form words...😖...
Source... Dude, thrust me.
Namii Okami it’s neither!
Would be real scary if it was actually real.
Steve 88 www.google.com/amp/s/www.seeker.com/amphtml/how-long-can-you-survive-being-decapitated-1792673821.html
Raman bruh. Moron
Are we not going to talk about the fact that Louis xvi was the one who invented the blade being on an angle making the cut cleaner? The blade was originally straight and Louis changed that which ironically made his death better later in life
Isn’t it ironic, don’t you think?.....ITS LIKE RAYYYY-IIII-YEEEEIIIINNNNNN
He suggested the idea after banning the wheel. It was the Jacobins that used it since they thought it was more humane. That wasn't the method of capital punishment under the crown
that's right although he didn't save his life atleast his death was a quick one.
Yep he was a good technicien
It was still sloppy because he was so fat.
7:44 ok the fact that "the head seemed to be aware of the situation" really creeped me out ngl, the person was conscious and showed signs of being still alive
As creepy and weird as it is... The head is alive for just a few seconds after being cut off.
Please continue the " :|" chain
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Boorrring
Cameron Arreche :|
Life must have been pretty freakin boring back then if your favorite form of entertainment was watching people die
We still must be pretty bored. It's still one of our favorite forms of entertainment. The movie industry is built on violence for the most part. Sure people arent really dying, but still death attracts us.
Bittermin31 who is we?
I guarantee people would flock to watch this or any form of execution if it was made public again.
Gladiators in Rome was quite a sight to see my friend lmao
@@ISoldKen The vast majority of people.
Weird how people seemed to love meeting up to see someone be killed, creepy.
Even now they'll stand around and be an annoyance at a crime scene with their phones out
@@bimobop true
Those that watch MMA fights and all that aren’t much different. Watching people get half beat to death, sometimes actually dying like the dude recently. Watched that video cuz I was curious how the people reacted to seeing it and most didn’t get that he was in serious trouble. The barbaric acts like that are still thriving today
There are still countries that have public executions. Saudi Arabia for example has beheading by sword, this always gathers big crowds.
Probably they had to go
Marie Antoinette apologized to the executioner for stepping on his foot? I’ll bet that haunted him.
I doubt it, since he was given the blade as a gift
People in this era : We love God
Also them
*Like watching people die*
Edit : Some of y'all are overreacting the whole thing. This was just a joke but you come at me as If i want to be jesus or idk. I'm a christian myself but some christians here are just sensitive and rude.
If my comment don't please you just scroll down but don't bother yourself writing hate comments that i won't respond to.
So nothing new?
TheNintendoFanatic indeed
Hypocrites in short
@@Anonymous-cn6zl it is fun though tbh
Look at me, I made a snarky comment!
Which really isn't, but whatever.
Fun Fact: Sometimes a Executioner would face the head of the victim towards his/her own body after the deed was done so they can see their own bodies for 10 seconds before the head died as well.
thats just fucking grim
damn that'd be cool
"Fun Fact"
I wonder if they would process fear in that moment or pain or anything? Would they be able to think with emotion or would they just be in shock
Omg...
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Someone uploaded an isis beheading (not the actual beheading but a picture of the scene seconds before and saying that)
Interesting lesson. With a bit more context, you forgot to mention Maximillian Robespierre, the public safety officer onto whom the revolution he conjured turned against. If not literally, metaphorically, history repeats itself.
Marie Antoinettes last words were “pardon me sir, for I meant not to do it”
Yea after she stepped on the executiors foot
@@Olivia___._ she took revenge
@@weluvmia lol yes
Didn't she have a small dog with her?
She was either genuine and just a sweetheart or just being sassy. I’m fine with both
" the eyes seem to retain speculation for a moment or two and there was a look in the ghastly stare with which they stared upon the crown which implied that the head was aware of the ignominious situation . "
My brain just imagined all that shiz and now I know I'm certainly going to have a nightmare tonight .
@The NIFB Jesus what are you even trying to say? what a horribly manged English sentence that was.
@The NIFB Jesus no response? What a fool you've revealed yourself to be after all these years.
@Stephanie Logan You forgot one...I no longer have been go on that diet!
Being a Headsman would be a dream job for me.I would have absolutely loved it.There is something very arousing about decapitation,it turns me on Big Time.
@@midnightmover2329 What the fuck
I’ve worked as a nurse in palliative care, and sometimes encountering death makes me vomit too. It’s like the presence of the spirit of death brushing past you makes you physically sick.
I could never work in a hospital, if I saw a bad bloody injury I would pass out and if someone died I’d have the same reaction as you, just puke my guts out
Starlight Barking you can easily acclimatise to all patterns of hauntings. Remember this, if you have previously shown respect and care to patients before their time of death, they will in spirit return you favours like protecting you. Therefore, you have nothing to fear or worry, that is, if you are a good person, a prayerful type. If you ever feel wind blasts inside hospital rooms, that is nothing for you to worry about. When a person dies and its soul makes wind blast inside room, just let go of your fear. That is just a soul leaving from one plane to another. It is soul projection or channel crossing. Stay in hospital and continue working as a nurse. When you sense shadows flitting from corner to corner of places, stop your worrying and pray for self-protection. Souls who flit in high speed cast shadows in air. It is really nothing to worry, if they are mild souls. Let them haunt in peace. When you find wandering souls or mild poltergeists, just always pray for God's mercy upon their souls. There are many broken souls who need nice prayers, not exorcism. When you pray for them, not against them, they will return you favours, their way of showing their gratitude.
I live in haunted home with clandestine hauntings by mostly family ghosts and a spirit protector. I also work in a haunted workplace. Honestly, I feel 10000 times safer there than be alone with living dangerous people like stalkers, rapists, murderers, terrorists, etc. At home and work, I sometimes pick up somethings of hauntings. I always relax when the air is calm and serene, the air light and happy. When something is unsettling the air, it means I have an intruder in the proximity and my guardian makes winds inside rooms and through corridors and stairs. He removes all dangers from my path. He throws hardened criminals off their balance and sends them fleeing in fright. That spirit ensures my safety. He has previously saved my life over 20 times and responded to many emergencies like few heart attacks, brain haemorrhages, fires, choking, etc. He even once surprised a woman surgeon and nurses in a theatre where I was brought in for a vaginal cyst removal. He gave her confidence and guided her scalpel. The surgery went smoothly, while spirit eased my blood circulation during surgery. The surgeon extracted an enormous amount of cyst fats that was roughly 1000ml. After surgery, I awoke free of pain, no pains in the stitches. That surprised the staff. Over the next two weeks, I had still no pains and no infections appeared in the stitched area.
Valiantcat7780 I have witnessed few deaths in a local hospital. My late father died in peace. He was given morphine or relaxant and that helped reduce his fear of death. He had an easy death which wasn't painful or traumatic. I know what it is like to die, as I had NDE or Shared Death Experience. Today, my father's spirit haunts my workplace that was his in former life. I never think of my father as dead, as his spirit lives.
I've been in 3 situations (nursing homes) when a relative has died. Most recent, my wife's grandmother. When she died, lying in bed, my father-in-law holding her hand... I said, "she's no longer with us." My wife went to get a nurse, looked for a pulse, checked her (lack of) breathing... pronounced dead within a minute after I knew. It was freaky, cause I felt her die.
I visited a young woman in hospital with bowel cancer. 3 weeks earlier she looked healthy enough. I was with other people thank goodness. When I walked into the room my eyes met hers. I saw death starring back. I was so surprised and shocked. I was so dismayed that she would have seen this on my face. I was totally unprepared for what I would see. She died a short time later. Whew.
Compared to medieval torture and execution(s), the guillotine was relatively tame and quick, at least ideally.
Modern technology has yet to improve on it. Hangings are easy to botch; electric chairs malfunction; gas chambers take too long; lethal injections drag out while medtechs look for veins on arms frequently ravaged by IV drug use. A rifle to the back of the head works and is cheap but is also even more graphic than the guillotine and damaging to the ears.
@@shane99ca The head stays alive for a while. It takes the brain about 3 minutes to die, so the beheaded person, even if unconscious, can still have dreams.
@@billolsen4360 If you want to get technical, the muscles stay alive for hours. Death is and always was a process, barring complete disintegration.
Unconsciousness, however, is not the same thing as sleep. Unconsciousness is dreamless, and the dying man wouldn't remember any dreams even if it weren't.
@@billolsen4360 Not true. The massive blood loss kills the brain in a matter of 30 seconds, TOPS. More usually, shock and trauma plus the blood loss makes brain death almost immediate.
Me: Can i sing one song before i die?.
Executioner: Okay, one song.
Me: 🎵There were 10 billion green bottles standing on a wall🎵
LOL
Lol that might take a while huh
@Savannah Simpson??
Hahaha
Good one😂
last time I was this early, Marie Antoinette still had her head
well i guess you're a-head of time.
@Fresh Beginnings how did I steal this joke 😐 I didn't see another comment that said the same
Loving this thread
Pia Dylan poor girl didn’t deserve that
She actually was one of the only people to geed the poor and try to help
The “let them eat cake” quote was said by someone else years earlier
@@lesvernornvienas8232 She really wasn't evil like the lower class and people to this day make her out to be, anyone would know if they'd do the slightest bit of non-bias research on her. Sadly people just love hatting on every rich person ever.
Millennials: i was born in the wrong era
The era: *GUILLOTINE*
😆😆😆
I bet you're one of those that confuses zoomers w/ millenials and doesn't realize that millenials are in their 30's and some are even close to 40.
Jaqen H'Ghar no millennials are 1990-2000
@@jessieqk12 no it isn’t dumbass.
Jessica Rich that’s gen z, millennials are born before 1995
THE BEST WELL KNOWN VOICE ON UA-cam !!!
MY ALL TIME FAVORITE !!!
At least it was a fast death . I heard even worse execution methods . Even today people are killed is horrible ways.
I don't think injected by the lethal chemical is severe.
Hao Tu Git Gud it a little to easy
So what, they weren’t found guilty of shoplifting.
@@howtogitgud Dude some people today are crucified. Don't you know?
Hao Tu Git Gud Lethal injection has a much higher chance of being botched then the guillotine.
Imagine the kind of fear, waiting in a wooden wagon for your turn, knowing in a couple of minutes, you wouldn't be breathing anymore. Especially if the person was innocent, or charged for Petty crime.
Just thinking about it terrifies me. I have absolutely no clue and Louis and Marie died so respectfully.
Same
I find it funny that Louis XVI financed the creation of the guillotine
He was essentially a puppet ruler from about 1789 onwards.
Here in Pennsylvania (U.S.A.) near Towanda there was the community called French Alizum. There was a large home built called La Grande Maison for Marie Antoinette and her children if they were able to escape France. 🇺🇸
Several years ago I went to Vietnam and the Hanoi Hilton has a working Guillotine that was an artifact from the French occupation. It was not used by the Vietnamese, but the French. If you check the stats, the Nazis used the Guillotine on more French people during the occupation than the French did during the Revolution
You're right about the Nazis' use of the guillotine. Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans and Christian Probst and other members of the White Rose resistance group were executed that way.
The new nazi's are turned loose in amerika (what's left of it these days, which isn't much) and hoping to bring the guillotine back into public favor. We have douchebag donnie to thank for this. His pathologically delusional followers would shame a fucking serial killer's conscience.
@@davidowens5898 typical BS statement from someone who clearly has stuck his head up his arse. - strange how you your-self pathologically spew violence & hate while claiming others are pathologically delusional for spewing violence & hate
@@davidowens5898 take your meds skitzo
The Guillotine was modeled on an earlier Scottish invention that became known as > The Maiden <
Perhaps the Town of Maidenhead in the county of Berkshire - England is hoe the town acquired its name.
One of my cousins resided in this town - prior to relocating to Stockpot in the North of England
My grandad's friend attended an execution, grandad didn't go himself but the friend had many sleepless nights because of what he saw.
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Was it your grandma
@@InshasChoice Yo grannies head did not roll?
He got what he wanted, didn’t he?
"I see that you have made three spelling mistakes." - final words of Thomas de Mahy, Marquis de Favras upon reading his death warrant before being guillotined in 1790.
Wish that was my English teacher -_-
French: “Hey, we invented a giant head-cutting machine, wanna see it in action?”
Marie Antoinette: "Ight imma *head* out"
Luna - i bet everyone that doesn't like her are french... they think that Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are the reason of the bankruptcy of the france, when Louis XIV is the main reason because of his pushing to build that "Palace of Versailles" even when the france is already bankrupt cause of building that luxurious palace.
R u kidding?
It was a public entertainment.
Yeah so were lynchings these mfs are crazy no doubt
The persons that it was used on exploited the people
So is Trump, which is just as crazy
Guillotine lynchings burning killing war slavery exploiting human trafficking. everything was common and happening before democracy took over. It has a long history in human culture.
That doesn't mean it isn't happening yet what do you think dark web is available for?
@@learniteasy8146 some people are so blind man its sicking people ask me y dont you have kids for what this world is sick dark web is an example its there lets just turn the cheek
4:59: behold, the Karens of the late 18th Century
lol
(HOLLERIN LAUGHIN!!!)
This is not funny, I’m married to a Karen 🤣
@@alvaroakatico9188 why just why
Nobody cares
Fun fact, actor Christopher Lee (from Lord of the Rings) witnessed the last public execution when he was 17 years old.
Her: heeeey i seen u looking sharp today 😜
Executioner: yeah thanks lol .how bout some head?.
Oh fuck...
@@sicariusvast9555 lmao...aye i tried ..i guess i got a head of myself...its all youtube comments bra dont lose ya head.
Thanks for the...HEADS up!!! 😂
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it would be even more terrorizing if the victim was laid on his/her back so they could watch the blade drop
I would vote for lying the person face-up with no bag over his head.
Not knowing when it’s coming is the scariest part.
says you, Kevin, hehe. If we put on a bibcam we could televise the closeups. And have a pool on whether the eyes open and shut. Some of those Japanese game shows are brutal, almost that bad. Waiver time and a free case of soylent ham to the widow...
That's horrible.
Very interesting. Didn’t know that the guillotine was around in 70’s.
Starwarsrap1 I remember being a child in the early 2000’s and my parents were talking to me and my sister about how the world was different when they were young. They told us death penalty was still a thing a few years ago and that they themselves voted for the abolition of the death penalty (1981). So we asked how the people were being killed and they were like “I’m pretty sure they were beheaded by a guillotine.” like it was no biggie.
They still have it today. In the US they have around 50,000 in storage still brand new. I have a book that shows criminals' heads cut off after receiving the guillotine and some heads stayed alert for half a minute. They even hooked wires up to some of them & attached the wire to a battery then blew a horn in the ear or something to that effect to see the reaction if any by the head. Morbid shit I tell u
A+ video!
Fascinating history about that event!
I remember reading an article in a magazine about a guy in France that had a portable Guillotine and he would drive to the Prison where the beheading would take place and according to the article the prisoner was never sure when the execution would take place. I believe I read that late '50's early '60's.
that is correct, the guillotine was the prperty of the executioner he and his assistants would set the machine up in the prison courtyard, and if voces were heard at 5 am on death row, all the condemed new one of them would die in a few minutes. for the condemmed were never told what day they would die, they just knew monsiour de paris had arrived.
Fun fact Christopher Lee was in the crowd when they killed Eugene Weidmann.
Aaron Lozano I remember him talking about that....he was a little freaked out. I love Christopher Lee, super cool guy. Wish he could have lived forever.
@@dolenzmcqueen8316 He really didn't want to see it, but he attended it. Changed him a great deal (I think it would change ANYONE)
As a fan of Christopher Lee and fetish styled executions, thank you for this information. It will help! ;)
@@kendallcaminiti-hess2243 I guess that also changed how he behaved when facing a murder. Remember how calmly he advised Peter Jackson about how it _really_ sounds like when someone is getting stabbed in his back?
@@oldtoby9377 yes, I do...he was a class act that sadly you don't see anymore. always a gentleman...RIP Sir Christopher
Secretly filmed ?
I’m just imaging Logan Paul holding his iPhone selfie in a historical painting
One head lip synced, “Another Saturday night, and I ain’t got no body.”
😂😂
"To the guillotine!"
"Chop, chop, chop, chop, chop"
-Oversimplified
XD
Dude uncool
@@AmongUs-fz4bk yes!!!
@@AmongUs-fz4bk so are you
Copying video heh ? There will be a tax for that
I'd probably take that over tar and feathers.
Tar and feathers doesn't kill you.
Henry G Although tar and feathers usually doesn’t kill, it really depends on what you’re using to stick the feathers. For example, if you use asphalt to tar and feather someone it could be very life threatening. This is because it covers up your pores on your skin.
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Bloodshed, horror, tortures and death make people feel excited and euphoric. No wonder there are plenty of very popular horror movies and gruesome websites; and in the past, when public executions were allowed, were always one of the best entertainment surrounded by mass crowd, even the hotels nearby were all booked like celebrating a huge festival.
"Someone in the crowd even secretly filmed the whole thing .... and unloaded to his UA-cam channel soon after"
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Imagine these crowds w/ smartphones.
@@psychicatheist5022 Yes, all filming the action badly.
Weirdly enough this is actually similar to the lynchings that happened in the southern US. A lot of people would watch the hanging, have picnics, things of that nature.
Please.. you don't know. Reference your source.
Pretty sure you can google the pictures
Dont know about the picnics, but there are photographs of crowds of people enjoying the events.
@@artlover4668 there aren't any. Again please source.
Strange fruit.
Prisoner on guillotine: Aight imma HEaD"
out.
get out
Executioner: .... Ok that was pretty good, you can go.
7 years from now someone will read this and not get the reference.
Future person, it is about Spongebob. He lives in a pineapple under the sea.
Sux
Get out
Best history channel on you tube #weirdhistory