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Truman, and Major Lausen H. Stone, the son of Harlan Fiske Stone, the Chief<br />
Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.<br />
All Eight were found guilty and sentenced to death. Because of their<br />
cooperation, President Roosevelt commuted the sentences of Peter Burger to<br />
life in prison and George Dasch to 30 years. On August 8, 1942 the other six<br />
were executed in an electric chair on the third floor of the District of Columbia<br />
jail. Their bodies were buried in a potter's field called Blue Plains in the<br />
Anacostia region of Washington.<br />
In 1948, President Truman granted Burger and Dasch executive clemency. They<br />
were deported to the American Zone of occupied Germany.
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