Franz Strasser

Franz Strasser (1899 – 2 January 1946) was an Austrian-German former NSDAP Kreisleiter and convicted murderer.

Conviction
In 1945, Franz Strasser killed five American allied airmen when they willingly surrendered with two other men, to which one committed suicide and one was suspected dead. Franz Strasser killed the men by shooting them with a Thompson submachine gun in Kaplitz, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic).

Death and trial
On October 22, 1945, he was in court and a man translated for Strasser (English to German). He proved guilty and was sentenced to death (execution by hanging), for his actions, at Landsberg Prison. On 2 January 1946, he was hanged and died instantly as German Catholic priest and longtime hospital chaplain Karl Morgenschweis prayed for the convicted murderer.