Oberstleutnant Holtz, a longshot

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Oberstleutnant Holtz, a longshot

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Post by Andy H » 08 Sep 2002, 18:56

Whilst flicking through a book about the drive on Moscow, it showed a newspaper clipping dated 24 October 1941, which while concentrating on the Moscow push also had an article about the assination of Oberstleutnant Holtz in Nantes and that unless the 2 assasins come forward the 50 men held in prison will be shot.

Can anyone shed any light on either this Oberstleutnant or the threat to kill the 50 men as a reprisal?

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Post by Matt Gibbs » 08 Sep 2002, 22:59

On October 20th, 1941, the city's Feldkommandant, Oberstleutnant Holtz, was assassinated by resistance fighters Gilbert Brustlein and Spartaco Guisco, who immediately afterwards fled to Paris. Two days later, in retaliation, 43 hostages were shot at Châteaubriant and Nantes, and five resistance workers from Nantes were executed at Mont Valérien. In the following months the Resistance made many attacks, more hostages – picked out from among the prisoners from Nantes and prisoners at the Choiseul camp - were executed.


Source :- http://www.ordredelaliberation.fr/us_doc/1_1_1_1.html

Hope this info is of use!

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