Li’s Reviews > Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 > Status Update

"The European papers played up the lack of warning Dillinger was given before being shot in the back. In Germany a Nazi newspaper used this as ammunition for a broadside against America. "Is a cop calling a man by his first name before shooting him down a sufficient trial?... Does a country in which this happens still deserve the name of a country of law and order?"