Operation Pastorius Word War Ll

Operation Pastorius was a failed sabotage operation conducted by Nazi Germany during World War II. The plan was to send a team of eight German saboteurs, all of whom were German-Americans, to the United States to carry out acts of sabotage against strategic American industrial and economic targets. The operation was named after Franz von Papen, the German Ambassador to the United States, who had suggested the idea.The saboteurs, who were trained in sabotage techniques and provided with explosives and other supplies, landed on the coast of Long Island and Florida in June 1942. However, their mission was quickly compromised when one of the saboteurs, George Dasch, turned himself in to the FBI and revealed the details of the plot. The other saboteurs were quickly captured and put on trial.The saboteurs were found guilty and six of them were sentenced to death. President Franklin D. Roosevelt controversially ordered the military trial of the saboteurs and the execution of the six convicted men, despite the fact that they had not killed anyone.Operation Pastorius is notable for being one of the few acts of sabotage conducted on American soil during World War II, and for the