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"On a hot August night in 1944, a soldier's body was discovered hanging by a rope at Seattle's Fort Lawton. The body was identified as Private Guglielmo Olivotto, one of the thousands of Italian prisoners of war captured and brought to America." "The murder shocked the nation and the international community. Under pressure to respond quickly, the War Department convened a criminal trial at the fort, charging three African American soldiers with the first-degree murder of Private Olivotto. Forty other soldiers were charged with rioting, accused of storming the Italian barracks on the night of the murder. All forty-three soldiers were black. There was no evidence implicating any of these men. Leon Jaworski, later the lead prosecutor at the Watergate trial, was appointed to prosecute the case and seek the death penalty for three men who were most assuredly innocent." Through his access to previously classified documents and the information gained from extensive interviews, Jack Hamann uncovers the truth behind World War II's largest army court-martial - a story that raises important questions about how justice is carried out when a country is at war.
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Steve Logan
reviewed On American Soil: How Justice Became a Casualty of World War II on March 13, 2008
On American Soil
Very interesting, a true murder mystery that took place at Fort Lawton (Discovery Park) in Seattle in 1944. An Italian prisoner of war was found hung in the woods on the bluff above Puget Sound, the morning after a group of black soldiers had rioted and beat up a group of Italian workers on base. But the botched court-martial overlooked the role of the white MPs and officers who had quarreled with the Italians just two nights before...
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