Nazi war criminals executed.

Nazi war criminals executed. His head hooded with a black cloth, Peter Back, German war criminal convicted of the murder of an unidentified U.S. airman, hangs on the gallows at the military prison at Rheinbach, Near Cologne, Germany, after his execution June 29, 1945. Back, a crippled tailor and local Nazi Party leader, eas one of three German civilians put to death for the murder of the American after their conviction by a 15 TH U.S. Army Military Government court. They were the first Germa civilians to be tried in the Reich as war criminals. The American airman who had safely parachuted to earth near Priest, Germany, was shot and beaten to death by the three Nazis on August 15, 1944.