[Aktungbby]

1942 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed in Washington, D.C.

Herbert Haupt


Heinrich Heinck




Eddie Kerling




Herman Otto Neubauer




Richard Quirin




Werner Thiel
All were electrocuted and buried in a potter's field. Justice is not always fair:

The failure of Operation Pastorius led Hitler to rebuke Admiral Canaris and no sabotage attempt was ever made again in the United States. During the remaining years of the war, the Germans only once more dispatched agents to the United States by submarine. In November 1944, as part of Operation Elster, the German submarine U-1230 (IXC/40) dropped two RSHA spies off the coast of Maine to gather intelligence on American manufacturing and technical progress. The FBI captured both men shortly after. These agents benefited from the calmer state of public nerves in the later years of the war and received prison sentences rather than execution...

William Colepaugh (L) and Erich Gimpel (R), following their arrest in December 1944. After his release, Colepaugh moved to King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, where he worked in a print shop. He subsequently owned and operated a retail business that sold lockers, desks and other metal office products he had learned to build in prison. He married and participated in community activities, volunteered with the Boy Scouts and became a member of Rotary He died of complications from Alzheimer's disease in 2005. Gimpel was the last person to be tried before a U.S. military tribunal in the 2nd World War. His autobiographical account of his undercover work, Spy For Germany, was first published in English in 1957, in Great Britain.
Following the terrorist attacks on the United States in September 2001, several books about Nazi spies in America were published, and his book finally appeared in the U.S. under the title Agent 146 (2003).
Gimpel was interviewed by Oliver North for his Fox News Channel program War Stories with Oliver North in the episode "Agent 146: Spying for the Third Reich".
The 100-year-old Gimpel died in São Paulo, Brazil on 3 September 2010. Erich Gimpel's career as a spy was dramatized in the 1956 film Spy for Germany (German title: Spion für Deutschland). The actor Martin Held played the leading role

In both spy operations, Pastorius and Elster, one spy betrayed the other(s) in exchange for leniency.It pays to work alone imho and write a good book for the movie right$!