Gefreiter Wilhelm Schmidt (24), German spy wearing American uniform captured during the German breakthrough into the Ardennes December 16, 1944
Gefreiter Wilhelm Schmidt (24), German spy wearing American uniform captured during the German breakthrough into the Ardennes December 16, 1944
Gefreiter Wilhelm Schmidt (24), German spy wearing American uniform captured during the German breakthrough into...
German soldier that was captured while wearing an American uniform is executed, 1944
Operation Greif. Under the Hague Convention of 1907, any men captured while wearing their enemies' uniforms could be executed as spies. Hitler told Skorzeny to dress his soldiers in US uniforms. After a military trial at Henri-Chapelle, three German soldiers were sentenced to death and executed by firing squad on 23 December.
Pernass, Billing, and Schmidt were given a military trial at Henri-Chapelle on 21 December and were sentenced to death and executed by a firing squad on 23 December. After World War II, Skorzeny was tried as a war criminal at the Dachau Trials in 1947 for allegedly violating the laws of war during the Battle of the Bulge.
He and nine officers of the Panzerbrigade 150 were charged with improperly using American uniforms “by entering into combat disguised therewith and treacherously firing upon and killing members of the armed forces of the United States”.
They were also charged with participation in wrongfully obtaining U.S. uniforms and Red Cross parcels consigned to American prisoners of war from a prisoner-of-war camp.
Acquitting all defendants, the military tribunal drew a distinction between using enemy uniforms during combat and for other purposes including deception; it could not be shown that Skorzeny had actually given any orders to fight in U.S. uniforms.
Skorzeny said that he was told by German legal experts that as long as he didn’t order his men to fight in combat while wearing U.S. uniforms, such a tactic was a legitimate ruse of war.
Skorzeny escaped from an internment camp in 1948, hiding out on a Bavarian farm for 18 months, then spent time in Paris and Salzburg before eventually settling in Spain.
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