[PAR35]

A German-born carpenter who had fought against the US in the Second World War was eventually arrested and sent to the electric chair on the most tenuous of evidence.

Now I know that the concept of fact checking is foreign to the editor who was supposed to edit this story.

[Swede Girl]

I saw that, too...the Second World War. It is astounding to think that the author and editor would or could make this kind of mistake.