In late March of 1944 the Papago Park camp received a new inmate. Six hours later he was found dead in a shower room of Compound 4. Somehow the POWs had learned the man was a collaborator, having either given information on U-boats to the Americans or even having helped interrogate other German POWs. Camp authorities quickly found the 7 Germans who participated in the murder and put them on trial. The war was over at this time, but the Army sentenced the Germans to death. After a controversial trial, in which it was made clear that the victim should not have been put in the camp with his fellow prisoners, and in fact the authorities had even been warned not to do so, the accused men were convicted and sentenced to death. They were hung in an elevator shaft of a building at Fort Leavanworth in Kansas on August 25, 1945. It was the last mass execution in the US. Somebody has more infos about this event?
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