U.S. Army executes spies 1945
David Wilma
News, but I'm interested in learning more about this incident in which
the U.S. Army executed by firing squad a number of German "spies."
There is no date, but it appears to be other than winter when the
Operation Greif (December 1944) were executed. Some of the men are
wearing pieces of U.S. uniforms, but one man is clearly in a German
uniform.
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=56073
Here is another one by the Seventh U.S. Army dated 23 April 1945 and
spy Ritzingen or Kitzingen.
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=54135
Any ideas how to research this?
David Wilma
a425couple
> --- I'm interested in learning more about this incident in which
> the U.S. Army executed by firing squad a number of German "spies."---
> Here is another one by the Seventh U.S. Army dated 23 April 1945 and
> spy Ritzingen or Kitzingen.
Well,
http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675066608_German-spy_Seventh-Army_executing-a-spy_examines-executed-man
tells us
"A German spy is executed by US Seventh Army in Kitzingen,
Germany during World War II
Location: Kitzingen Germany
Date: 1945, April 23
http://www.videosurf.com/videos/spy?providers=291
has some of the same type stuff.
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=148967
says,
"by ansata1976 on 28 Jan 2009, 00:18
Maybe someone can tell me the name and further informations about
a ss man executed 1945 in Kitzingen( near Würzburg) for sabotage
by the americans. I saw a reportage about it a long time ago but they
did not tell the name.
ansata1976 wrote:
The name is Richard Jarozik. I am not sure about the spelling of the name.
---Jarczyk was a Pole who fought for the Nazis in World War II by
sabotaging equipment and supplies and killing U.S. soldiers at night
behind the lines of the U.S. 7th Army."
I hope that helps.
a425couple
> "David Wilma" <David...@comcast.net> wrote in message...
>> --- I'm interested in learning more about this incident >
> says, ---
> The name is Richard Jarozik ---/ --Jarczyk was a Pole who fought for the
> Nazis in World War II by --- killing U.S. soldiers at night
> behind the lines of the U.S. 7th Army."
And with that name we can find a couple of books.
Werwolf!: the history of the National Socialist guerrilla ... - Page 106
Alexander Perry Biddiscombe - 1998 - 455 pages - Preview
.. Volksdeutsch named Richard Jarczyk infiltrated American lines, where
he obtained civilian clothing from a sympathetic German woman and, in
March 1945, got himself hired by an American Military Government
detachment at Bruckweiler ---
(Gives more in 'preview', seems like a worthwhile book, subject
of "Werwolf" comes up often. Currently many around $10 used.)
World War II
Smithmark Publishing - 1998 - 400 pages - Snippet view
Richard Jarczyk, an Obergefreiter in the 36th Volksgrenadier Division,
has been left in plain clothes behind the US 7th Army lines as his unit
retreated, with orders to sabotage US equipment and supplies, kill
American soldiers and ...
The illustrated London news: Volume 206, Issues 5529-5541
.. others, again, attempt spying and sabotage, as in the case >
erfreiter Richard Jarczyk. a former Volks Grenadier, who.
tried by the Military A GERMAN WOMAN GIVING EVIDENCE
AT A US ARMY COIRT-MARTI Al. IN GERMANY, AT WHICH
AMERICAN ...
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news:ima8i...@news3.newsguy.com...
Richard Jarozik was NOT a Pole,- he was a Volksdeutsch, i. e. a German
national living abroad who also officially declared himself a German.
It is also worth noting that spelling of his vorname is German, not Polish.
a425couple
> News, but I'm interested in learning more about this incident in which
> http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=56073
> Any ideas how to research this?
As to your first one, I went to google and put in words
US Army firing squad
and at that time (for me / I know they vary!)
about the third google response was two videos.
The one was that what appeared to be the same
'british pathe', but the other was "liveleak" -
US Army Firing Squad Execute Nazi Boy/16
Jul 10, 2007
A firing squad of the US Ninth Army puts an end to the young life of
Heinz Petry, 16, of the Hitler Jugend. Petry was tried as a spy and ...
www.liveleak.com/view?i=92a_1184074177
That showed definitely the same quarry/gravel pit.
It may be exactly the same video, but I did not
care to review them both repeatedly to confirm
they were the same footage.
Now with a name, I again went google and entered
Heinz Petry
and got a response with same video, and:
The Werewolf Organization
Heinz Petry, sixteen, and Josef Schomer, seventeen, survived
until 5 June, when they were tried as spies by American troops
and executed. ...
www.feldgrau.com/werwolf.html
Going there I read:
"The Werwolf Organization
by Russ Folsom
The Werwolf Organization's assassination of the Allied
appointed Burgomeister of Aachen, Dr.Franz Oppenhoff
in March of 1945, is probably the best known and most
widely publicized exploit of this hapless band of politically
indoctrinated youngsters who hailed for the most part from
the ranks of the Hitlerjugend and the Bund Deutscher Maedel.
Charles Whiting (aka Leo Kessler) wrote a book named "Werwolf"
(recently re-printed) which details this very same mission ----
--"The Germans knew well from first hand experience, just how
much damage an organized and efficient partisan force could
inflict upon an occupying army."
YES, yes, it can!
--"examples of spurious Werwolf activitiy continued well after
the cessation of hostilities:"
--"Admiral Karl Donitz ordered them to lay down their arms
on 1 May, they still persisted."
And, unlike another time and place, there were speedy trials,
reviews, and then the sentence was carried out,
rather then incarcaration awaiting either escape,
the prison to be stormed, hostages for trade being taken,
politics to change, or lucrative business deals to be offered.
Michele
news:imbf8k$7a9$1...@news.task.gda.pl...
>
> Richard Jarozik was NOT a Pole,- he was a Volksdeutsch, i. e. a German
> national living abroad who also officially declared himself a German.
I don't know about this specific case, but as a general definition, what you
say of Volksdeutschen is wrong. As the very term says, these were Germans by
ethnicity. Not necessarily German citizens. On the contrary, the vast
majority of the Volksdeutschen were citizens of the countries they lived in.
The very term came in frequent usage in Nazi parlance exactly because the
general Nazi principle of "one people, one state, one leader" meant that the
Germans by ethnicity who weren't citizens of Germany had to be brought back
to the fold; either by moving the people, or by moving the borders.
Poland, in particular, had a sizable minority of people who were Polish
citizens but German as to their ancestors, and usually as to their first
language. But the same goes for many other European countries.