Spy Executed by U.S. Army in Germany United States Army physicians examine the body of Richard Jarczyk to be sure that he is dead after execution by a firing squad in Germany in 1945. Jarczyk was a Pole who fought for the Nazis in World War II by sabotaging equipment and supplies and killing U.S. soldiers at night behind the lines of the U.S. 7th Army. He was discovered when he attempted to run for mayor with the Military Government in Bruckweiler and later declared that he was a spy. A spy and his fate Preparations are being made for the shooting of a German spy by the name of Richard Jarczyk, born in Poland. In March 1945 he ended up in the Rhineland region, occupied by American Forces, and began to work in the newly created administration. His frequent departures aroused suspicion. As it turned out, he was collecting information about the activity of the American Army, in order to pass it on to one of the Werewolf groups. - He was arrested, tried by Military Court and execut...