Here’s a great For Men Only cover featuring two gullible Nazis falling for the old soldier-do-you–have-a-light? trick. You’d think these two supertroopers would ask themselves why a beautiful fräulein is lounging in a boxcar at midnight, but that would only complicate their impending humiliation, where they wake up with headaches, tied to each other wearing only stirrup socks and swastika boxer shorts. We really wish Nazis had been this gullible in real life—we’d all be living in a wonderful world where Hogan’s Heroes is taught in schools as historical fact.
1939—Eugen Weidmann Is Guillotined
In France, Eugen Weidmann is guillotined in the city of Versailles outside Saint-Pierre Prison for the crime of murder. He is the last person to be publicly beheaded in France, however executions by guillotine continue away from the public until September 10, 1977, when Hamida Djandoubi becomes the last person to receive the grisly punishment.