KIDNAPPING OF GEN. KRIEPE
British Officers’ Daring LONDON, May 18. The British officers who recently captured the German, General Kriepe, commander of the 22nd Panzer Grenadiers, in Crete, held up the general’s car outside Candia by waving a red light, says Reuter’s Cairo correspondent. The German driver was bundled out. and a British officer took over the wheel while other officers covered General Kriepe with automatic weapons. The car was driven through Candia and 22 military control posts to a point 30 miles beyond, where the party boarded a British Ship. A letter was left in the car announcing the capture to the Germans. General Kriepe, the officers stated, showed a sense of humour when, after the capture, he remarked : “This puts me iu a very difficult position.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 199, 20 May 1944, Page 7
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128KIDNAPPING OF GEN. KRIEPE Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 199, 20 May 1944, Page 7
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