Heinrich Boere fought on the Russian Front then was sent back to the Netherlands. he and another member were given a list of names for "retaliatory measures."
Boere killed pharmacist Fritz Hubert Ernst Bicknese with a pistol in the pharmacy, then killed bicycle shop owner Tenn de Groot when he answered his doorbell at his house. Then they forced Franz Wilhelm Kusters into his car, drove to another town and shot him.
After the war, Boere escaped from a POW camp in the Netherlands and eventually made his way to Germany after being sentenced to death in 1949.
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My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
Monday, July 13, 2015
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