English: On back: "Defense counsel sitting at table. Defendants in rear. Borkum Is[land]. War Crimes Trial. Ludwigsburg, Germany, 1946." The trial of the fifteen Germans who were tried on the charges of jointly assaulting and killing seven American fliers who were captured when their plane was shot down over Borkum Island in the North Sea on August 4th, 1944, finally came to an end after eight weeks of intensive debating. The following were sentenced to be hanged; Goebel, Wentzel, Seiler, Schmitz, and Ankermann. Here, Frau Goebel, Nazi I land commander's wife, accuses Meyer Ankermann (standing against wall), of Borkum Island at the time of the crime. One of the defendants at the war crimes trials, S/Sgt. Stecker acts as an interpreter during the trial.