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History’s Top Executioners of All Time

Khalid Elhassan June 5, 2020 34 min

13. Getting Off Light

By the time WWII ended, Stella Kubler had been responsible for the arrest, deportation, and subsequent murder of hundreds of Jews. She was a cold-blooded killer. Estimates of the total number of her victims ranged from a low of 600, to possibly as high as 3000. Their numbers included many of her personal friends, former schoolmates and their families, and even some of her own relatives.

Stella Kubler at home after her release in 1950. Ullstein Bild

Nonetheless, Stella got off light. Captured by the Soviets, she was tried and got a ten-year sentence. After her release, she moved to West Berlin, where she was tried by the West German authorities, and sentenced to ten years. However, she did not serve any time of that sentence. She then converted to Christianity, and became a lifelong anti-Semite. In 1994, Stella Kubler committed suicide by jumping out the window of her Berlin apartment.

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Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.