1942 failed German sabotage in the U.S. during WWII
Operation Pastorius
Part of the American Theater of World War II
The trial of the captured Germans, July 1942.
Objective
Sabotage American economic infrastructure
Date
June 1942
Executed by
Nazi Germany
Outcome
Failed
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American Theater (WWII)
Battle of the Atlantic
Caribbean
Canada
Angler POW escape
St. Lawrence
Bell Island
Estevan Point Lighthouse
Bowmanville
Kiebitz
Point Maisonnette
United States
Machita incident
Aleutian islands
Torpedo Alley
Ellwood
California ships
Los Angeles
Pastorius
Fort Stevens
Lordsburg killings
Lookout Air Raids
Duquesne Spies
Fort Stanton
Pelikan
Port Chicago
Fort Lawton
Fire balloon attacks
Elster
Great Papago Escape
Santa Fe riot
Point Judith
Utah prisoner of war massacre
Central and South America
River Plate
Bolívar
Pelikan
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 American economic targets. The operation was named by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the German Abwehr, for Francis Daniel Pastorius, the organizer of the first organized settlement of Germans in America. The plan involved eight German saboteurs who had previously spent time in the United States.
The plan quickly failed after two of the agents, George John Dasch and Ernest Peter Burger, defected to the Federal Bureau of Investigation shortly after being deployed, betraying the other six. A military tribunal – whose constitutionality was challenged to the Supreme Court in Ex parte Quirin – sentenced all eight to death later that year. President Franklin D. Roosevelt commuted the sentences of Dasch and Burger, while the other six were executed. In 1948, Dasch and Burger were granted executive clemency, conditional on their permanent deportation to the American occupation zone in Germany by President Harry S. Truman.
Sixteen other people were charged with aiding those in charge of the operation.[1]
^Spark, Washington Area (1 June 1942), Nazi saboteur Neubauer after his arrest: 1942, retrieved 24 May 2022
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