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Death at Papago Park POW Camp : a tragic murder and America's last mass execution / Jane Eppinga
- Title
- Death at Papago Park POW Camp : a tragic murder and America's last mass execution / Jane Eppinga
- Author
- Eppinga, Jane, 1936-
- Publication
- Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2017.
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Book/Text | Request in advance | D805.U5 E67 2017 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 127 pages : illustrations, photographs; 23 cm
- Summary
- "World War II came to Arizona via two significant avenues: prisoner-of-war camps and military training bases. Notorious for its prisoners' attempted escape through the Faustball Tunnel, Papago POW Camp also had a dark reputation of violence among its prisoners. An unfortunate casualty was Werner Drechsler, who supplied German secrets to U.S. Navy authorities after his capture in 1943. Nazis held there labeled him a traitor and hanged him from a bathroom rafter. Controversy erupted over whether the killing was an act of war or murder, as well as the lack of protection Drechsler received for aidign in espionage. Ultimately, seven POWs were hanged for the crime. Author Jane Eppinga examines the tangled details and implications of America's last mass execution." -- Backcover.
- Alternative Title
- Tragic murder and America's last mass execution
- Subject
- Drechsler, Werner, 1923-1944
- Camp Papago Park (Ariz.)
- 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, American
- Prisoner-of-war camps
- Prison violence
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
- PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical
- TRUE CRIME / Murder
- Genre/Form
- True crime stories
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-124) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- Day of infamy -- Divebomb to hell -- Sunday in the park -- Confessions and court-martial -- Conviction and appeals -- Execution -- Appendix A. Articles of war -- Appendix B. Crew list of the U-118.
- ISBN
- 9781467135764 (pbk.)
- 1467135763 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2017931815
- OCLC
- 973803874
- SCSB-12910126
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library