Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Guillotine" in English language version.
[I]n 1792, Nicholas-Jacques Pelletier became the first person to be put to death with a guillotine.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)According to Nazi records, the guillotine was eventually used to execute some 16,500 people between 1933 and 1945, many of them resistance fighters and political dissidents.
[I]n 1792, Nicholas-Jacques Pelletier became the first person to be put to death with a guillotine.
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