SHOT OUTSIDE HOME
DUTCH NAZI LEADER. REGARDED AS WORST TYPE OF TRAITOR. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, February 8. Lieutenant-General Hendrik Heffardt, aged 70, the commandant of the Dutch Nazi Volunteer Legion, was shot dead outside his home last Friday. The Germans in 1940 appointed him President of the German Peace Court, and he formed the Volunteer Legion in July, 1941, “to fight Bolshevism.’’ He was one of the most despised Dutch Nazis. He was the only general openly working for the Germans and was regarded as the worst type of traitor. He received an extremely poor response to the appeal for volunteers to fight in Russia. He had just completed a tour of Holland, which he made for the purpose of sympathising with the families of the men who had been killed on the Russian front, but had had a bad reception because the majority of the families disowned members joining the legion. As a result of the assassination the Germans have imposed curfews in several provinces.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1943, Page 3
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