On December 3, 1944—five months before the end of the Second World War—five former SS members of the Majdanek concentration camp were publicly hanged at the very site of their crimes. Before 15,000 people, including survivors, they faced justice for mass killings, torture, and the brutality inflicted on thousands of prisoners. This powerful act, carried out in the shadow of the crematoria, became one of the first public executions of Nazi war criminals, sending a clear message that such crimes would not go unpunished.