Treason in the Rockies: Nazi Sympathizer Dale Maple’s POW Escape Plot

By Paul N. Herbert and Flint Whitlock

Harvard honor alumnus Dale Maple had a promising future, but his obsession with Nazi Germany led to his downfall. Classmates often accused him of pro-Nazi sentiments, and one campus organization even expelled him. After graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, only to be relegated to a unit of soldiers suspected of harboring German sympathies. He helped two German POWs escape imprisonment at Camp Hale and flee to Mexico. The fugitives ran out of gas seventeen miles from the border and managed to cross it on foot, only to be arrested and returned to American authorities. Convicted and sentenced to death for treason, Maple awaited his fate until President Franklin Roosevelt commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. Ultimately, he was released in 1950. Paul N. Herbert narrates the engrossing details of this riveting story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The History Press
• Release date: Nov 7, 2016
• ISBN: 9781625858085

Paul N. Herbert

Paul Herbert, his wife Pam, their two sons Alex and Bill and a Jack Russell terrier named Cosmo are longtime residents of Virginia. Paul has loved The Jefferson since his first visit over twenty years ago. He is also the author of God Knows All Your Names, a collection of short stories.