Alfred Reuter

∗ 06-05-1923 † 17-09-1944 Valkenburg (21)
- German Front Soldiers -

Ysselsteyn, NN

Gemeentearchief Valkenburg:

1947-12-31 Alfred Reuter - The Red Cross in The Hague asks the mayor for Alfred Reuter, but he is unable to help.
1948-01-08 Alfred Reuter (reply by the mayor) - The mayor replies to the Red Cross that he knows nothing about this person, “because the Americans took with them the identification tags during the days of liberation”.
In a letter to the Red Cross from November 24, 1945, he had still assumed that it was them who had taken the dog tags. So the question is: where did they end up?

The Red Cross states that he has been “missing near Valkenburg since September 19, 1944”. He was therefore entered in the register of missing persons on this day. The German army was retreating and was already some distance away from Valkenburg since September 17. We therefore give the date of his death as September 17, 1944, the day on which the most deaths on the German side were recorded in the municipality of Valkenburg-Houthem, namely on the Goudsberg. We do not know where he was buried, but most of the Germans who died in Valkenburg eventually found their final resting place in the German military cemetery in Ysselsteyn.
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