The Germans who executed an American POW because he was Jewish, should have been tried and executed as war criminals.
I have however read that U.S. flight crews were instructed that if shot down they should surrender only to German soldiers, because civilians were likely to kill them on the spot. I also read about German civilians being tracked down & tried for murder of plane crews, especially if the crashed plane was found more or less intact.
Actually that is infact what happend from a historical account from the Air Force which I found years later. I have redacted his his name.
STORY BELOW:
He was immediately captured by the local police and turned over to a German infantry unit. He, along with several other prisoners, were being transported to a POW camp when the convoy was halted. He was led into a wooded area off the road and shot, presumably because his captors had discovered he was Jewish.
In 1947, his murderer, named in documents as “Albert N.” was tried before a General Military Court at Dachau, and was given a life sentence.
His body was never recovered.
Minor issue, we didn't worry about those at the time. 350 American soldiers captured during the Battle of the Bulge chosen for Jewish sounding names were imprisoned at the labor camp of Berga, a subcamp of Buchenwald. Complete with a 200 mile plus death march when the camp was to be liberated. Death rate was around 20% in two months they were there. The government hushed it up. I believe the soldiers were sworn to secrecy, in any case it never came to light until the 1960s. The camp commandant, Erwin Metz, did 5 years.