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the real cost of real #resistance

Vienna, 24 Nov. 1848

Broadside announcing execution of revolutionary #journalists Alfred Julius Becher & Hermann Jellinek by firing squad

Deploying “all the elements of an unchained #press” “they summoned the people to armed insurrection”
detail of broadside on death sentence

the original sentence was death by hanging
detail of broadside on Alfred Julius Becher and Hermann Jellinek (their religions, ages, career paths, revolutionary activity)

background:

Becher
(although a Protestant, as noted in the broadside, he appears in the old Jewish Encyclopedia)
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2703-becher-alfred-julius

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Julius_Becher

https://www.geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at/Alfred_Julius_Becher

Jellinek:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Jellinek

https://spotlight.anumuseum.org.il/austria/person/jellinek-hermann-1822-1848/
the broadside, printed in Fraktur