First German civilians tried by U.S. Army Commission.
First German civilians tried by U.S. Army Commission. Three German civilians, the first to be tried for a war crime, are shown before their trial June 1, 1945, by an eight-man commission of the 15th U.S. Army in the City Hall of Ahrweiler. They are accused of shooting and beating to death an unidentified American airmen who bailed out of a damaged plane August 15, 1944. Left to right: Peter Kohn, 32, ...
Organisatie
NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies