Place of birth: Gleiwitz.
Unit: Hafenkommandant IJmuiden.
Eight days after the Germans had surrendered to the Allies, two deserting Sailors were executed by German pow's under supervision of the Canadian Liberators.
The trial occurred in an abandoned assembly plant which was a Canadian-run pow-camp.
A German firing squad provided with captured German rifles and a 3-ton truck from the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada and escorted by Canadian Captain Robert K. Swinton carried out the sentence.
The other German victim was Bruno Dörfer.
His last resting place is unknown.
Unit: Hafenkommandant IJmuiden.
Eight days after the Germans had surrendered to the Allies, two deserting Sailors were executed by German pow's under supervision of the Canadian Liberators.
The trial occurred in an abandoned assembly plant which was a Canadian-run pow-camp.
A German firing squad provided with captured German rifles and a 3-ton truck from the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada and escorted by Canadian Captain Robert K. Swinton carried out the sentence.
The other German victim was Bruno Dörfer.
His last resting place is unknown.
Place of birth: Gleiwitz.
Unit: Hafenkommandant IJmuiden.
Eight days after the Germans had surrendered to the Allies, two deserting Sailors were executed by German pow's under supervision of the Canadian Liberators.
The trial occurred in an abandoned assembly plant which was a Canadian-run pow-camp.
A German firing squad provided with captured German rifles and a 3-ton truck from the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada and escorted by Canadian Captain Robert K. Swinton carried out the sentence.
The other German victim was Bruno Dörfer.
His last resting place is unknown.
Unit: Hafenkommandant IJmuiden.
Eight days after the Germans had surrendered to the Allies, two deserting Sailors were executed by German pow's under supervision of the Canadian Liberators.
The trial occurred in an abandoned assembly plant which was a Canadian-run pow-camp.
A German firing squad provided with captured German rifles and a 3-ton truck from the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada and escorted by Canadian Captain Robert K. Swinton carried out the sentence.
The other German victim was Bruno Dörfer.
His last resting place is unknown.
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