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The two groups promptly disposed of uniforms and proceeded in civilian dress to New York City and Jacksonville, Florida, respectively, and from there to other points in the United States. Cullen returned to his station and sounded the alarm.

Cullen, whom the saboteurs attempted to bribe with $260. The Long Island group was noticed by Coast Guard beach patrolman John C.

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All eight wore full or partial German military uniforms so that if they were captured upon landing, they would be entitled to prisoner-of-war status rather than being treated as spies. On June 16, 1942, they came ashore during the hours of darkness. The remaining four boarded the German submarine U-584 which carried them from France to Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. After the declaration of war between the United States and Nazi Germany in December 1941 following the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, they received training at a sabotage school near Berlin, where they were instructed in the use of explosives and in methods of secret writing.īurger, Dasch, Heinck and Quirin traveled from occupied France by German submarine U-202 to Amagansett Beach, Long Island, New York, landing in the hours of darkness, on June 13, 1942. 1)Īll were born in Germany and all had lived in the United States. The eight men involved in the case were Ernest Peter Burger, George John Dasch, Herbert Hans Haupt, Heinrich Heinck, Edward Kerling, Herman Neubauer, Richard Quirin and Werner Thiel.

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The spy who secretly and without uniform passes the military lines of a belligerent in time of war, seeking to gather military information and communicate it to the enemy, or an enemy combatant who without uniform comes secretly through the lines for the purpose of waging war by destruction of life or property, are familiar examples of belligerents who are generally deemed not to be entitled to the status of prisoners of war, but to be offenders against the law of war subject to trial and punishment by military tribunals. Unlawful combatants are likewise subject to capture and detention, but in addition they are subject to trial and punishment by military tribunals for acts which render their belligerency unlawful. Lawful combatants are subject to capture and detention as prisoners of war by opposing military forces. the law of war draws a distinction between the armed forces and the peaceful populations of belligerent nations and also between those who are lawful and unlawful combatants. It was argued July 29 and July 30, 1942, and decided July 31, 1942, with an extended opinion filed October 29, 1942. Quirin has been cited as a precedent for the trial by military commission of any unlawful combatant against the United States. 1 (1942), is a case of the United States Supreme Court during World War II that upheld the jurisdiction of a United States military tribunal over the trial of eight German saboteurs in the United States. Murphy took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.Įx parte Quirin, 317 U.S. Jurisdiction of a United States military tribunal over the trial of several German saboteurs in the United States was constitutional.Ĭhief Justice Harlan F. Motion for leave to file petition for writs of habeas corpus denied, 47 F.

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