Nazi war criminals executed.

Nazi war criminals executed. A Catholic priest annoinst with holy oil the hooded head of Peter Back, German war criminal who was hanged at dawn June 29, 1945, at the military prison at Rheinbach near Cologne, Germany, for the murder of an American airman in August, 1944. Back, a crippled tailor and former rural leader of the Nazi Party, was one of the three German civilians hanged for the murder after conviction by a 15th U.S. Army military commision. They were the first German civilians to be tried in Germany as war criminals. The American aviator, who had parachuted safely to the ground near Priest, Germany, was shot and beaten to death by the three August 15, 1944