Nazi spies executed. Karl Zimmerman, 24-year-old German SS trooper convicted os espionage, is executed by a Ninth U.S. Army firing squad near Braunschweig, Germany.

　　On June 14, 1945, Karl Zimmermann, a 24-year-old former Nazi stormtrooper, was executed by a squad of American soldiers. He had been captured as a spy in Braunschweig, central Germany, and his body, bound to a stake, was found wearing civilian clothing.

　　He was a member of a grenadier division tasked with providing information about U.S. military positions as a spy and was executed by a U.S. military firing squad on June 14, 1945. He was captured, arrested, sentenced to death, and executed at a firing range. The execution was carried out in public, with a large crowd of onlookers present.He was shot by a squad of American soldiers. This execution was intended as a warning to others suspected of espionage or aiding the German military.

　　Karl Zimmermann, a Nazi German spy, was a 24-year-old member of the German SS who was convicted of espionage and executed by a firing squad of the 9th U.S. Army near Braunschweig, Germany. He was arrested in the German town of Dazeburg while wearing civilian clothing. He was one of six Germans executed by firing squad near Braunschweig on June 14, 1945. This photograph shows Zimmermann's bullet-riddled body bleeding from a stake.