Operation Pastorius
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Operation Pastorius was a failed German intelligence plan for sabotage inside the United States during World War II. The operation was staged in June 1942 and was to be directed against strategic Amer
The trial of the captured Germans, July 1942.
Potter's field
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A potter's field, paupers' grave or common grave is a place for the burial of unknown, unclaimed or poverty-stricken people. The term "potter's field" is of Biblical origin, and refers to Akeldama, wh
Operation Pastorius
…about the others. The others were executed on 8 August 1942 in the electric chair on the third floor of the District of Columbia jail and buried in a potter's field in the Blue Plains neighborhood in the Anacostia area of Washington. The failure of Operation Pastorius caused Hitler to rebuke Admiral Canaris and no…
The Trench in Potter's Field on Hart Island, New York, circa 1890 by Jacob Riis
Potter's field in Dunn County, Wisconsin
"I come to claim my dead" drawing by William Thomas Smedley, circa 1884