Word: holtz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stumbled out of their cells and were riddled by firing squads. They were trade-union leaders, "Communists," men suspected of helping the British or Free French. One was not a Frenchman but an Anamese from Indo-China. But still the men who had shot Lieut. Colonel Karl Friedrich Holtz were free. Not even the promise of a sizable fortune had persuaded their friends to betray them to the Ger mans. General von Stülpnagel announced that he would shoot 50 more hostages if they were not found...
This week Heinrich Himmler and his merry men learned that in Nantes, Occupied France, two rebels had pumped lead into the loftiest Nazi victim yet-General Holtz, Commandant of the whole Nantes region...
...slain officer was Lt. Col. Friederich Karl Holtz, the highest ranking Nazi officer, yet to be shot since the occupation of 1940. He was cut down by pistol shots, reportedly fired by two youths, as he left his Nantes home yesterday on route to his office...