Why were American captured pilots beaten to death by German people in World War II?

In World War II, although most of the allied pilots who survived being shot down by the German army were put into prison camps with good pay, a few of them were unlucky, waiting for them was the bad luck of being fought.

in December p>1944, five crew members of the American Army Air Force forced their plane to land in a field in the Czech Republic, and then they surrendered to the German troops in other places. On the truck being escorted, a Nazi officer, strasser, for some unknown reason, grabbed a submachine gun and killed two American pilots on the spot. The surplus three were also killed by the foreign police chief Lindemeyer in the same car. After the war, Lindemeyer was afraid of murder, while strasser was sentenced to be hanged by a military court and was executed in prison at the end of 1945.

strasser was hanged

Not all peace crimes were committed by the military, and sometimes Buyi joined the evil troops. Heim, Lurcel, is an important industrial town in Germany, and is the origin of Opel, a well-known brand. During World War II, there was a tragedy in which a cloth strike and a captured American pilot were killed here. During World War II, the United States and the British Air Force repeatedly bombed Heim, Lurcel. In the afternoon of August 24, 1944, an American B24 bomber was shot down by German anti-aircraft fire during the air raid mission, and all the crew members parachuted to escape. Most of them were captured by the Germans after landing and taken to an air base for temporary detention. One of the wounded was sent to the hospital for surgery. The next night, except for the wounded, other American pilots were put on the train and sent to other cities. On the way, when the German cloth noticed that there were American prisoners of war in the car, they roared, waved their fists and spat on the window, showing great resentment.

On the evening of August 25th, the British Air Force launched indiscriminate bombing, which blew Lurcel Heim into a sea of fire, leaving many foreign residents homeless. On the evening of August 26, because the rear railway was destroyed by the British Air Force, American prisoners of war voluntarily got off and changed to another train.

On the way to transfer, they were invented by residents from other places, and people's resentment suddenly came to generate. They shouted: kill these lovely guys and tear them to pieces, that is, they destroyed our hometown. American prisoners of war quickly defended themselves: We didn't bomb the residential area in Heim, Lurcel, but only bombed for military and industrial purposes. However, these arguments were a drop in the bucket, and a large number of angry citizens and workers flocked to the ground waving stones, hammers, sticks and shovels, and immediately surrounded and knocked over eight American pilots, and some were killed alive on the spot. In such a chaotic situation, the German soldiers who escorted American prisoners of war did not dare to stop them.

At this time, Hartgen, the captain of the civil defense air raid from other places, heard the news. He dragged eight American prisoners of war who were in danger to the side of the road, then took out his pistol and fired at them one by one. After six rounds, only two pilots, Adams and Brown, survived. Yu Nu residents put eight pilots who were still sighing on wheelbarrows, ready to pull them to the cemetery and bury them.

At this moment, the air raid alarm suddenly sounded, and people fled for shelter. Adams and Brown took advantage of the gap to climb out of a trolley full of dead comrades, and they were captured again four days later. Fortunately, they were put into a prison camp this time, and they stayed until the end of World War II, where they were rescued by the Allies and returned to the United States.

In March, 1945, eight captured British pilots were brutally killed in Heim, Lurcel, when the Allied Forces lost information. Therefore, an inquiry team was organized to inquire about this matter. A few months later, they found the bodies of six pilots, only to find that they were Americans. These American pilots who attacked the designated purpose during the day became scapegoats for the British Air Force, which used to carry out "indiscriminate bombing" at night.

After the war, Adams and Brown, who have returned to the United States, wrote to the inquiry and visiting team to reveal the specific process of the tragedy, so the two pilots who were previously declared lost also fell. According to the testimony of witnesses, five chief criminals, including Hartgen, were hanged, and countless others were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment for fighting American pilots.

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