Ethel+and+Julius+Rsenberg

=__Ethel and Julius Rosenberg__=

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were tried for communist acts during the WWII and the married couple were both sentenced to the electric chair. Ethel and Julius Rosenberg transported information about the atomic bombs to a soviet spy. They grew up in the lower eastside of New York and were born twenty on years apart in age and got married. They had two children, who were sent to live with their grand parents after the arrest, and are still alive today. they were american citizens, and were the first civilians to be put to death for wartime spying.

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, were born in new york city, in the lower east side. they were both bruoght into radical polotics and a young age. Ethel was a stay at home mother and julius worked for the U.S. army signal corps as a civil junior engineer. then he was fired for being a communist in 1945. Then started working in his brothers David Greenglass, in his small work shop. which was located in los alamos, New mexico. where he had been a machinist working on the atomic bomb there.

his brother david, was arrested for communist spying in the early 1950's and was put in prison. And three years later the rosenbergs were found guilty by trial by jury, and on june 19th 1953 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were sentanced to the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. a while before this was going on Alger Hiss was being trailed for perjury and suspection of giving away secret documents to the soviets, by passing them to whittaker chambers, a reformed soviet spy. but when h the hidden gvernment papers were shown to much time had passed and hiss was scentanced to prison for five years in the end for new evidence that was brought down apon him. but after 3 yeras and 8 monthes he, was paroled. in that same year, klaus fuchs, was charged of being a communist and giving atomic bomb sectrets to the soviets. he had explained why he had joined the communist party, that was because it seemed like the only reasonable party to go to when he lived in germany, so he joined. hteir was evidence though, he had met with harry gold, a communist, which he only knew as raymond, he gave gold info on the atomic bombs that had been dropped, including the "fatman". his trail only lasted 2 hours because he pleaded guilty to being a communist spy. and was sentanced to prison in great britian for 14 years, but he was realeased after nine years and immedatly lft britian and headed for east germany where he resumed his scientific career.