| In addition to the Americans executed at Shepton Mallet by the US authorities under visiting forces legislation, I have just read of the case of Private Karl Hulten of the 501st PIR, who was jointly convicted in a British court alongside British woman Elizabeth Jones of the murder of a taxi driver. Both were sentenced to death, although Jones was reprieved and was released from prison in 1954. Hulten was hanged at Pentonville prison on 8 March 1945.
Source: Juliet Gardiner - Wartime: Britain 1939-1945, headline 2004
Hulten was a deserter who went on a crime spree with Jones. Their story was made into a movie in 1990 and if you look up Karl Hulten on Google you will get dozens of links to the movie, but little to the real crime.
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Angie
"History is lived forward but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was like to know the beginning only." C V Wedgewood
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