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Victor Kugler put to work in Wageningen

Victor Kugler was put to work in Wageningen for almost four months.

Event

Dec. 1, 1944 - March 24, 1945

51.967859 N 5.665319 E

Stationsstraat

Wageningen

Victor Kugler wrote in his English-language notebook that he was transferred from Zwolle to Arnhem by train on 28 December 1944. Once they arrived there, it turned out there was no work for the prisoners and they had to go on foot to Wageningen. According to his notebook, they arrived there on 30 December 1944. On the CADSU form, Kugler wrote that the transfer to Wageningen took place on 30 December 1944 . In Wageningen, he probably stayed at the Rijks Landbouw Hoogeschool.[1]

Kugler noted in his English-language notebook that "Castle Schimmelpenninck was in the bushes". It is possible that he was referring to the Schimmelpenninck cigar factory that was located on Stationsstraat.[2] According to the notebook, Kugler became a "messenger to the staff office" in Wageningen and also had to repair electricity wires destroyed in the fighting.[3]

Due to the advance of Allied troops, the prisoners were sent on foot towards Germany in late March, and Kugler managed to escape near Zevenaar.[4]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Kugler schrijft in zijn aanvraag dat hij van 30 december 1944 tot 27 maart 1945 in Wageningen verbleef bij de Landbouwkundige Hogeschool Wageningen. De officiële naam voor deze hoge school was Landbouwkundige Hogeschool Wageningen, zie: https://www.wur.nl/nl/over-wageningen/historie.htm, geraadpleegd op 23 augustus 2022. En Het Nederlandse Rode Kruis (NRK), Den Haag, dossier 97791: Aanvraagformulier A, Centraal Afwikkelbureau Duitse Schadeuitkeringen, ingevuld door Kugler en gestempeld 3 september 1963.
  2. ^ Gemeentearchief Wageningen, 025 Schimmelpenninck Sigarenfabrieken v/h Geurts en Van Schuppen N.V. (1927-1980), beschrijving archief.
  3. ^ Tijdens zijn dienstverband bij de Schachtanlage Scholven volgde Kugler een opleiding tot elektrotechnicus. Het certificaat hiervoor ontving hij op 7 september 1920 van de Handwerkskammer Müster i/Westpf. Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), reg. code A_Kugler_I_022: Lehrbrief Handwerkskammer te Münster van Victor Kugler, 7 september 1920. En: AFS, AFC, reg. code A_Kugler_I_048: Engelstalig notitieboekje Victor Kugler.
  4. ^ Het Nederlandse Rode Kruis (NRK), Den Haag, dossier 97791: Aanvraagformulier A, Centraal Afwikkelbureau Duitse Schadeuitkeringen, ingevuld door Kugler en gestempeld 3 september 1963.