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War Memorial in Aachen-Eilendorf
Limburg 1940-1945,
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The fallen resistance people in Limburg
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Louis Hustinx
(Louis Évrard Eugène)
∗ 16-04-1908 Bunde † 06-12-1944 Rheinbach (36)
- Maastricht - Aid to People in Hiding L.O. -
Louis Hustinx was the Belgian honorary consul in Maastricht. His sister Marie Houtappel-Hustinx was married to the wine merchant Edmond Houtappel, who ran the family business Fa. Widow R. W. Hustinx, coffee roasting and wholesale in colonial goods.
Edmond Houtappel was a captain in the reserve in 1938-1940, in charge of the border detachment at Wahlwiller near Vaals of the 13th Infantry Regiment. He photographed the German positions across the border for Belgian intelligence. Louis subsequently ensured that they would end up in Brussels. During the occupation, Edmond joined the LO and became a victim of Gonnie Zeguers-Boere’s treachery. As a result, Louis also came into the sights of the Germans.
As a Belgian citizen, he was a German prisoner throughout the war and was killed by the Germans in Rheinbach on December 6, 1944, because he refused to inform them of his illegal activities. [1]
His In Memoriam card reads: Even though he loved his wife and children so much, he preferred death to giving up the secrets that had been entrusted to him.
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