GERMAN WAR CRIMINAL PETER BACK HANGING FROM A NOOSE, GERMANY, JULY 1945
GERMAN WAR CRIMINAL PETER BACK HANGING FROM A NOOSE, GERMANY, JULY 1945 Photograph. Convicted German war criminal, Peter Back, hanging from a noose in a wooden scaffold at a prison, hood over his head. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/11/45 --A German pays for his crime--His head hooded with a black cloth Peter Back, convicted German war criminal, hangs in the noose at a prison near Cologne, Germany. He and two other German civilians were hanged June 29, 1945, for murdering an American airman who parachuted down near Priest, Germany, in August, 1944.--U.S. Signal Corps photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (List B out) 7081."”Near Cologne, Germany. 11 July 1945 COLLECTION LEVEL: Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the...