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Friday 13 February 2015

Ambush of General FRIEDRICH KUSSIN (1895-1944).

General FRIEDRICH KUSSIN (1895-1944), the German commander of Arnhem in the Netherlands, was ambushed and killed by British paratroopers at a crossroads on September 17, 1944 during Operation Market Garden. This is a photograph of Josef Willeke, his dead driver, also killed in the attack by multiple machine gun fire, along with his interpreter, Max Köster.


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