Karl Heinrich Meier was a Nazi sympathizer and Dutchman of German origin (then aged 24), who, with his accomplice Jose Waldberg, a German national (then aged 25), was hanged at Pentonville Prison in London on 10 December 1940, following his conviction at the Old Bailey the previous month, having been sentenced to death by Mr Justice Wrottesley. These were the first executions under the Treachery Act 1940.
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