Sentence as to each accused: “To be hanged by the neck until dead.”  

Werner Drechsler was suspected of being a traitor and was executed by his fellow prisoners.



On each of the 14 head stones were placed three coins, no one knows who placed them on the stones or what the significance was

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Otto Stengel, with his wife, served on the U-352, sunk by an American warship in World War II.  He and his wife, Anna, had two children

“Damn bastards, isn't it enough that they have destroyed Germany?"

“Someday they will see that this is wrong.”  First Sergeant Walter Beyer

The graves of 14 German prisoners executed at Fort Leavenworth in 1945.  The grave site is in the USDB cemetery on Fort Leavenworth.  The 14 head stones are maintained with respect and often decorated by flowers from a former German native now a Missouri resident who has not forgotten these men.

Captain George A. Towle was a Roman Catholic chaplain at the USDB Castle, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.  For eight months, he spent part of each day with the fourteen prisoners of war and was a close friend.