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Camera location48° 53′ 51″ N, 9° 11′ 31.92″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
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English: Borkum Is. War Crimes Trial. The defense counsel is addressing the Court, witness & interpreter in foreground. Ludwigsburg, Germany, 1946." The trial of fifteen Germans who were tried on the charges of jointly assaulting and killing seven American flyers who were captured when their plane was shot down over Borkum Island in the North sea, Aug., 4th, finally came to an end after 8 weeks of intensive debating. The sentences to be hanged were handed out to Goebel, Wentzel, Seiler, Schmitz, and Ankermann. Krolinkovski, life imprisonment; Weber, 25 years; Memenga, 20 years; Heinemann, 18 years; Witzkie, 11 years; Albrecht, 6 years; Pointer, 5 years; Geyer, 4 years; Rommel, 2 years. Moyer Gerhard was acquitted of all charges. Dr. Born, character witness for Goebell, one of the defendants at the war crimes trials, sits in the witness stand next to Sgt. Stecker (an interpreter), as a civilian lawyer (standing) questions him.
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This file is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain in the United States.

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