Word: glasenapp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story: "On the night of Thursday, Oct. 9, 1941, in Prague" (said a Nazi public notice) "Lieut. Erich Glasenapp [of the German] 431st Infantry Division was assassinated. . . . TWENTY HOSTAGES will be shot within a week, if the murderer or murderers are not apprehended." The notice was signed by Colonel Reinhardt, Gestapo Commissioner of conquered Prague...
Commissioner Reinhardt knew that Lieut. Glasenapp had committed suicide. But Reinhardt reported that Glasenapp had been murdered because among the Gestapo's hostages was a Nazi collaborationist, Lev Preissinger, coal king of Prague. After shooting Hostage Preissinger the Nazis could confiscate his mines and at the same time show troublesome Czech workers that Naziism does not respect rich capitalists...
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