Burger and Dasch turned themselves in to the FBI and were allowed to return to Germany in 1948 but the rest were sentenced to death by the electric chair.
Secret Nazi mission saw German U-boats land men on American soil
Nazi U-boats dropped saboteurs onto American shores as part of a secret
mission during the Second World War, a documentary has claimed.
10 Sep 2010
Eight men landed on beaches off Long Island and Florida with the intention of
sabotaging targets across the country over a period of up to two years.
Four men arrived ashore near Manhattan on June 13, 1942 carrying weapons,
explosives and primers.
On 17 June 1942 a further four men landed off Ponte Verda Beach in Florida.
The German documentary, called Attack on America – Hitler's 9/11
will be shown on Saturday on the anniversary of the attack on the World
Trade Centre in New York.
The programme-makers, Spiegal TV, claim the men intended to attack economic
targets such as Penn Station, hydroelectric plant at Niagara Falls and
aluminium factories in Illinois and Tennessee.
A spokesman for Spiegel TV told the Daily
Mail: "It has surprising parallels with 9/11 because the Nazis'
goals were the same – to kill as many people as possible while crippling
economic installations."
Read more at www.telegraph.co.uk
The chief of the German Abwehr counter-intelligence service, Admiral Wilhelm
Canaris, came up with the plan which was code-named Operation Pastorius
after the first German to organise a settlement of his countrymen in the US,
Francis Pastorius.
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