genfortælling i Joel F. Harrington: "They didn't have a standing executioner and the prince, in a crowd, said to Heinrich Schmidt, Frantz's father: You! You are going to hang these guys! Heinrich replied, I'm not going to do that. The prince said: You hang them or I am going to string you up instead, as well as the two men standing next to you. So Heinrich did it. And once he did it there was no other job. Nobody wanted to have anything to do with him. He and his children were condemned to the occupation." The Faithful Executioner: Joel F. Harrington on the life of sixteenth-century executioner Frantz Schmidt.Arkiveret 24. december 2016 hos Wayback Machine
genfortælling i Joel F. Harrington: "They didn't have a standing executioner and the prince, in a crowd, said to Heinrich Schmidt, Frantz's father: You! You are going to hang these guys! Heinrich replied, I'm not going to do that. The prince said: You hang them or I am going to string you up instead, as well as the two men standing next to you. So Heinrich did it. And once he did it there was no other job. Nobody wanted to have anything to do with him. He and his children were condemned to the occupation." The Faithful Executioner: Joel F. Harrington on the life of sixteenth-century executioner Frantz Schmidt.Arkiveret 24. december 2016 hos Wayback Machine
