Hirsh
was not a German -- technically he was a U.S. Citizen. He was accused of planning
an assassination of a German official.
U.S. appeals failed, and he was
executed with an ax.
Technically
Helmut Hirsh, 1937
A
young man, technically a U.S. citizen, supposedly had a plan to assassinate
a German official. this was never proven. his capture was secure, his
fate sealed, he was to be executed. Ambassador Dodd did plead, Hirsh was an
American. The Germans took no heed, they tired of talking. Hirsh was executed
with an axe, a brutal sign of times to come. Horror was in the wind.
