The U.S. Army bombed it after learning from German POWs it interrogated that the center was a prime rocket-making facility for the Nazis. (U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence photo ...

But during the summer of 1945, that is what happened to 14 German prisoners of war held in the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth. Their crime: killing three of their fellow German ...