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Josef Jakobs (b. 30th June 1898, d. 15th August 1941) was a German spy who became the last person to be executed at the Tower of London. He was captured shortly after parachuting into the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Convicted of espionage under the Treachery Act 1940, he was shot by a military firing squad.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 11y agoThe last prisoner to be EXECUTED in the Tower of London was
Josef Jakobs, a sergeant of the German Army. The twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray, a notorious pair of London gangsters were there a few days in 1952 after the rather minor offence of failing to report for national service, and were the very last to be incarcerated in the Tower and only because it was at the time the barracks of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers London Regiment, the unit they had tried to avoid joining.
The last official prisoner in the Tower appears to have been Rudolf Hess, who had been Hitlers deputy and parachuted into Scotland on an unofficial bid to talk peace with Britain in 1941.
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∙ 14y agoWilliam Hastings, first Baron Hastings, was the first, in 1483, to be executed inside the grounds of the Tower.
Most executions were carried out in public outside the Tower.
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∙ 12y agoRudolf Hess - during World War II.
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