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Personal logo ColCampbell Supporting Member of TMP04 Feb 2020 12:47 p.m. PST

Not actually an obituary, but I thought it would be good to post this here as well as on the WW2 aviation pages.

Saw this report on Military.com web site:

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The city of Hanau, Germany will dedicate a plaque in honor of three American airmen who were murdered by order of a SS officer in February 1945 after he discovered one of the three was Jewish. All the details are in the link.

Jim

PzGeneral04 Feb 2020 1:33 p.m. PST

Wow…..maybe someday the tragedy will come to a close….

PzGeneral04 Feb 2020 5:19 p.m. PST

I've been asked by a fellow Member to elaborate in a PM the meaning of my message above. Since he was kind enough to ask I though maybe there were those who wondered the same but didn't bother to say anything. So if you will indulge me, here is my explanation.

The tragedy of WW II endures. Here is a family who sent a Son off to war. It was expected that possibly he would not return. And when that dread event happened they mourned their loss as did so many other families around the world.

Then 75 years later they learn that the Son had survived the events of combat. He had escaped that death only to die a more tragic one; simply because he was associated to a fellow Airmen to whom their Captures had an intense and irrational hatred for. Simply because he was Jewish.

I'm glad the Sister and family finally were told the truth of the death of their Hero who went off to war. But at the same time I'm saddened that the tragedy of WW II continues to haunt some of us. Even to this day….

I hope I have sufficiently explained the meaning of my message.

Dave

jdginaz04 Feb 2020 6:46 p.m. PST

Well explained.

Ed Mohrmann Supporting Member of TMP05 Feb 2020 8:39 a.m. PST

Dave, thanks for expanding your orginal post.

Does anyone have any idea if the 'officer' who ordered
or committed the murders survived the war and was
tried for the crime ?

Mithmee05 Feb 2020 7:03 p.m. PST

Good to hear about this.

I served right up the road from Hanau in Budingen from October 1983 to October 1986.

May these heroes RIP.

Personal logo ColCampbell Supporting Member of TMP06 Feb 2020 9:09 a.m. PST

Since the article only mentioned that the three who actually pulled the triggers were tried and convicted, I would presume that Fehrle didn't survive to be arrested and tried. I tried an on-line search of his name and the only hit was to the article cited above.

Jim

Personal logo Dan Cyr Supporting Member of TMP30 Apr 2020 9:29 p.m. PST

This was a known story (one of a number) of murders of U.S. and allied air crew in Germany (and even more by the Japanese). A number of U.S. air crew were murdered by civilians. Very few were found, tried and punished.

dapeters05 May 2020 9:56 a.m. PST

I think people missed the real story and that's a population 75 years later acknowledging a past wrong. You can look around the world and see populations that would rather talk about there glory days and greatness.

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