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In Hebrew, letters have numerical values.

The small letters add up to 707.

The large letter equals six.

Together, they form the Jewish year 5707.

On our calendar, that's 1946.

The scribes were encoding a date.

The pattern Esther established, 10 enemies hanged for attempting genocide, would repeat.

And just as prophecy said, it would repeat on October 1946.

When Jewish scribes recorded the Book of Esther 2400 years ago, they encoded a date in Hebrew letters, the Jewish year 5707, October 1946.

That exact month in Nuremberg, Germany, several Nazi leaders were sentenced to death by hanging.

Two hours before the executions, Hermann Goering bit down on a cyanide capsule in his cell.

He took his own life.

That left 10.

The executions began just after 1 a.m., and one by one, Nazi war criminals climbed 13 steps to the gallows, the same number of steps Haman built.

Each man was asked for final words.

Yulia Stryker was ninth.

For 12 years, his newspaper called for the murder of every Jew.

Now he stood on a wooden trapdoor.

He looked at the witnesses.

His last words?