Guillotine used for resistance siblings 'found in Germany'

(MENAFN- AFP) The guillotine used to execute Nazi resistance siblings Sophie and Hans Scholl in 1943 appears to have been found in southern Germany after being thought lost for decades, a museum said Friday.The blood-stained device which had a some 15-kilo blade was identified after 18 months of research at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich where it had been in storage for around 40 years without anyone realising, a museum official said.Sybe Wartena, the museum's head of folklore, said a couple of factors indicated it was "with great likelihood" the one used in the execution of the Scholls, members of the White Rose student resistance group, who were detained after distributing flyers at a city university.No other prison in Bavaria carried out as many executions as Stadelheim prison, where the Scholls were guillotined, and the mechanism clearly shows evidence of having often been used, he said.