Extreme Justice: Extreme Justice

By Vincent Green and Vincent S. Green

Book Overview

Describes the true story behind the 1943 murder of Corporal Johannes Kunze, recounting the events that led to his death by his fellow prisoners and the trial and conviction of the five men who were... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671799061
• ISBN13: 9780671799069
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.1" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

a fascinating book

November 4, 1943. Tonkawa, Oklahoma. More than 200 German prisoners of war jammed into the mess hall of their American POW camp. Before the evening was over, one of them, Corporal Johannes Kunzeaccused of treason-would lie in a pool of his own blood, savagely beaten to death by his fellow prisoners.Within three months, five men present in the mess hall would be accused, tried, and sentenced to death for the murder of Johannes Kunze-a sentence carried out in July, 1945, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Here, for the first time, the remarkable true story behind these events is revealed: the stark conditions in the POW camps; the tactics used by military intelligence to tempt informants and turn the prisoners against each other; the one-sided legal battle dominated by a sharp young military prosecutor, Lieutenant Colonel Leon Jaworski (of future Watergate fame); and the passions and politics of war which insured that for Kunze and his accused killers, there could be no mercy.A powerful and controversial account of crime and punishment, EXTREME JUSTICE demonstrates how-beyond innocence or guilt-the search for justice can be lost in the desire for blood-revenge.

Facinating, hard to put down

This book perfectly lays out the picture of world war II prisoner of war camps. From the mistreatment of prisoners by fellow inmates, to the final justice handed out by their captors. This book is highly recommended.