What happened when a Holocaust survivor killed a German family right after the war?

Mateo Elijah

It is a real and tragic tale of a man by the name Peter Chemy. It happened immediately after the end of the Great War. He was a Polish and had suffered in the most torturous Nazi camps ever.

By the time the Americans freed him in 1945, he was a shattered man who roamed in Germany, in pain and anger.

One day, he was pitied by a German family, that is a husband, a wife, and their little girl. They took him into their house, had him a meal and a good bed and were kind to him.

But Chemy failed to master his anger. He regarded them as only Germans and was full of hatred as the camps were. He took an axe and murdered all three of them in bed that night, a gruesome thing to do.

Chemy was put on trial by the then command of the American Army. They heard of his misery, and believed that it is never right to kill people. Therefore, the court gave him a death penalty.

In January 1947, Peter Chemy was shot dead at the Landsberg Prison using a firing squad. The case was a bitter reminder that though the war was over, the aftermath of the war remained that of horrific events caused by the war.

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