Horst Günther, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Horst Günther

German soldier

Date of Birth: 23-Sep-1920

Place of Birth: Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Date of Death: 06-Apr-1944

Profession: military personnel

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Horst Günther (23 September 1920 – 6 April 1944) was a German World War II prisoner of war.
An Afrika Korps gefreiter, he was "captured on 9 May 1943 in Tunisia [and] murdered in Camp Aiken prisoner-of-war camp, South Carolina" United States.He was suspected of collaborating with the American authorities and was strangled by two fellow prisoners-of-war, Erich Gauss and Rudolf Staub, who hung his body from a tree in order to make it seem that Günther had killed himself.
Gauss and Staub were hanged on 14 July 1945 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
They were buried in the prison cemetery.
Staub is alleged to have said just before his execution: "What I did was done as a German soldier under orders.
If I had not done so, I would have been punished when I returned to Germany."