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In Colditz, nobody had felt up to the task of operating a gallows. In England, the professionals began to prepare for the task. The executioner Albert Pierrepoint was summoned to Wandsworth jail, where Purdy now resided. The execution date was fixed for February 8 1946. On February 6, just two days before that date, the Home Secretary commuted Purdy's death sentence. Purdy's hero William Joyce was less fortunate. He was hung on January 3 1946.

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Bradley Cooper sweetly holds hands with daughter Lea, 6, as they enjoy an after-school ice cream run in NYCThey had good reason to believe that the man before them, Lieutenant Walter Purdy, was a spy sent into Colditz by the Germans to betray his countrymen.

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Henry Alfred Symonds - Member of Waffen-SS British Free Corps - Guilty of aiding the enemy, sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment James Haskell is seen for the first time since Chloe Madeley split while she sports racy boots for outing with daughter Bodhi Jason Momoa is 'beyond happy' that his stepdaughter Zoe Kravitz is engaged to his 'best friend' Channing Tatum Verkaik has managed to add considerably to the history of Purdy, the traitor at Colditz… an excellent book’– William Neave, son of Airey Neave, the first British officer to escape from Colditz Ben Cohen's ex-wife Abby gives an insight into 'much needed holiday' with her twin daughters and new partner Dave after all clear from bowel cancerThis left the British with a very serious problem. If they let Purdy live, he would betray them all – including Brown and his spy operation in Berlin, which Green had unveiled on the basis that he believed Purdy to be as good as dead. That indiscretion jeopardised Brown’s life. But, in a stunning irony, it helped save Purdy from the hangman’s noose a second time. The men turned Purdy over to the Germans and, sure enough, a few days later a search party entered Colditz and smashed their way into the base of the circular staircase to reveal the entrance to the tunnel the Germans had searched for for so long. Tomoya Kawakita - Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment, released in 1963, and deported to Japan. United Nations Human Rights New York Office Director Craig Mokhiber RESIGNS in protest of UN's handling of...

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