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Good luck reading Dutch: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Tichelaar

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[โ€“] tal 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

The brothers were shot and then left to the mob. Their naked, mutilated bodies were strung up on the nearby public gibbet, while the Orangist mob ate their roasted livers in a cannibalistic frenzy.

[โ€“] huppakee@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

There is actually a whole article on their murder, quite extensively detailing the days leading up to their death as the days that follow it (not in English though): https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moord_op_de_gebroeders_De_Witt