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Limburg 1940-1945,
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The fallen resistance people in Limburg
Martin Brouns was a bread peddler [1#2] and a miner. On August 19, 1929 he moved with his parents from Maastricht to Geleen. [1#3]
After being dismissed from the Staatsmijn (state mine) Maurits, he was employed in a German mine. He stayed at home for a few days after Geleen was bombed on October 4, 1942. When he went back to the German mine, he was transported to Dachau. Later to Mauthausen. [1#3]
Why was he dismissed from state mine Maurits?
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That he returned late to his work in Germany had been interpreted as a breach of contract: … was taken by the Gestapo on 14-1-1943 to the prison in Aachen for breach of contract. Then on 28-1 on transport to Niederhagen-Wewelsburg concentration camp. [3]
There is no known grave of him. [1#4]
He is listed as a resistance fighter on the monument to the war dead in Geleen-Lindenheuvel. [2]
The Germans apparently saw it that way too, for he had been so bold as to take a couple of days leave to clear rubble at home.
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