Werner Drechsler cooperated with interrogators at the Joint Interrogation Center located at Fort Hunt., Virginia (just outside Washington, D.C.).  For seven months he assumed two false identities (Limer, and Brabant) and was billeted with a number of POWs from other U-boats.  He engaged them in conversation on specific military topics at the request of interrogating officers.  Below is a list of the POWs that Drechsler had contact with at the Joint Interrogation Center. 

When Drechsler was no longer needed at the Joint Interrogation Center he was returned to Army custody.  Navy interrogators stipulated that he should never be sent to a POW camp where other German naval POWs were held.  Instead, on March 12 1944, the Army sent him to Papago Park, a large POW camp holding many U-boat men near Phoenix, Arizona.  Within six and one half hours of arriving there he was recognized by other U-boat men as a traitor and hung in a shower room.  Seven U-boat POWs (including Henrich Ludwig and Rolf Wizny from the list below) were charged with murder, court-martialed and executed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

The story of Drechsler's death, subsequent investigation, courts-martial and execution is set forth in Richard Whittingham's excellent book Martial Justice, The Last Mass Execution in the United States, Bluejacket Books, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 1997 (originally published by the Henry Regnery Company in 1971) (IBSN 1-55750-945-X).