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How was Josef Jakobs executed?

  • Hanged

  • Electrocuted

  • Beheaded

  • Shot by a military firing squad

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Josef Jakobs was executed by being shot by a military firing squad on August 15, 1941, after he was captured on a spying mission by the British in May 1941. He was the only spy to be executed during World War II by the British.
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