Werner Drechsler
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title:
Werner Drechsler
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Werner Drechsler was a German U-boat crewman during World War II. He served on U-118, which was sunk off the Azores in 1943. When he was taken prisoner, Drechsler, a conscript, enthusiastically cooperated with his captors. His father, a Social Democrat, had been sent to a Nazi concentration camp as a political prisoner. Eventually, United States Navy intelligence officers recruited Drechsler as a spy and placed him in a prisoner of war (POW) camp near Fort Meade, Maryland with other U-boat sailo
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German POW murdered by fellow POWs in Arizona (1923–1944)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Drechsler
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2024-03-03T21:14:26Z
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