Word: dostler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General [Anton] Dostler was sentenced to death [TIME, Oct. 22] because he had ordered 15 O.S.S. men shot who were caught when trying to blow up a tunnel between Genoa and La Spezia. Surely every American found the verdict satisfactory...
...Nazi saboteurs were not in uniform: Dostler was found guilty of breaking international law by shooting without trial prisoners who were...
...first Nazi general to be executed for war crimes fell before a U.S. firing squad in Aversa, Italy last week. General Anton Dostler was shot because he had ordered the execution of 15 American soldiers who were captured behind German lines in March 1944 while trying to blow up a railroad tunnel. Dostler's defense was that he acted on Hitler's orders. The court held that, even with explicit instructions from above, to shoot uniformed men without trial is against the code...
Unlike the Americans he had condemned, stocky, double-chinned General Anton Dostler, 54, got a hearing. Before a U.S. military commission convened in Rome's Palace of Justice, the General said Ja, he had ordered the O.S.S. men shot. They wore no insignia, had turned their field jackets inside out. A Führerbefehl (order from Hitler) had decreed death for captured commandos and saboteurs. When junior officers protested, he countermanded his order, asked higher-ups what to do. Field Marshal General Albert Kesselring's headquarters said shoot the captives; after that, he had no alternative...
Aware that they were setting a momentous precedent (see INTERNATIONAL), the five U.S. officers serving as commissioners mulled the question of responsibility. But if they forgave Dostler for following orders, the only war criminal left would be Hitler. When they had decided, grave-faced Corporal Albert Hirschman of the O.S.S. translated the verdict for impassive General Dostler: "To be shot to death by musketry...
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