An Afrika Korps Gefreiter, he was "captured on 9 May 1943 in Tunisia [and] murdered in Camp Aiken prisoner-of-war camp, South Carolina" United States, by fellow prisoners.
[1] He was suspected of collaborating with the American authorities and was strangled by two fellow prisoners-of-war, Erich Gauss and Rudolf Straub, who hung his body from a tree in order to make it seem that Günther had killed himself.
[2] Gauss, 32, and Staub, 39, were hanged on 14 July 1945 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
[3] Straub is alleged to have said just before his execution: "What I did was done as a German soldier under orders.
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