Memorial Heinrich Kruse

Along Bundesstrasse 70, directly on the shoulder next to the bike path is a small memorial commemorating Heinrich Kruse, a local resident, farmer, who was killed while removing a roadblock installed there by the Wehrmacht to slow the advance of the British.

Heinrich was with some others looking for construction timber to shore up part of the farmhouse that had been destroyed by plane bombs. The barricade consisted of a number of wooden beams/trunks. None of those present really dared to take the barricade apart. Heinrich wanted to do this and got to work. While removing a beam, a mine that had been placed there went off. Heinrich badly injured his leg in sat down on 1 of the wooden beams. Nobody really dared to help him. Supposedly Heinrich became unconscious and fell backwards, straight onto another mine which immediately exploded and took Heinrich's life.

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Source

• Text: Bjorn van Marle
• Photos: Bjorn van Marle