On Dec. 2, 1945, 27-year-old Harold Segal opened up The New York Times and read with special interest a story about the first-ever execution of a German officer following an Allied trial. As he stared ...
The first Nazi general to be executed for war crimes fell before a U.S. firing squadin Aversa,Italy last week. General Anton Dostler was shot because he had ordered the execution of 15 American ...
The mission was as risky as any the O.S.S. ever plotted. Fifteen U.S. soldiers of Italian descent were to slip ashore in rubber boats, 400 miles behind the German lines. On the main-line railway ...