Dead Spy Hanging from Post

(Original Caption) Lifting Veil on End of World War II Spies. Herbesthal, Belgium: These official photographs, showing the execution of German and Italian spies during World War II, were released recently by the US Defense Department and appear in the current issue of the magazine, People Today. At left, grim scene at Herbesthal, Belgium, in December 1944, as an American medical officer examined the bullet-riddled bodies of three German spies who died before a US firing squad. Second from left, a closeup of the body of Wilhelm Schmidt, one of the trio, sagging from the post to which he was bound after the bullets did their job. Second from right, the black-hooded body of Peter Back, minor Nazi official, is seen below the trap after he was hanged for helping in the murder of an ariman in 1944. Right, Italian Idalo Palesse holds a cigarette between sneering lips as a priest tries t