TRIPLE EXECUTION
GERMAN CIVILIANS ALLIED FUER KILLED (10.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 29. Three German civilians were hanged at dawn at a military prison in Rhinebach for the murder of an unknown American airman last August, says the British United Press’ correspondent in Germany. They are the first civilian war criminals to be prosecuted in Germany. They are Peter Back, a crippled Nazi rural leader, Peter John, a one-armed war Veteran, and Mathias Gierens, who pleaded insanity. A fourth man, Mathias Krein, a country policeman, was found guilty, reprieved and is serving a life term of imprisonment. It was alleged at the trial that the airman was shot and then clubbed to deatji when he baled out.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21753, 30 June 1945, Page 6
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