Peter Korsten (Peter Johannes)
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Peter Johannes Korsten is listed in the Resistance Memorial on the
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Peter Korsten
(Peter Johannes)


 03-10-1904 Helden      10-08-1944 Helden (39)
- Aid to People in Hiding L.O. - Helden - Crisis Controle Dienst (CCD) -



Het Grote Gebod – L.O.

    Peter Korsten was a controller of the CCD. On Wikipedia NL [1] we can be read about him: As a controller he succeeded in misleading the occupiers by soaping the mouths and claws of confiscated cattle with soapy water in order to arouse the fear that these cattle could infect German cattle with the often fatal variant of foot-and-mouth disease. The healthy meat went to the resistance in this way.
    A similar story can be found on Meat Supply for the Submerged.
    Cammaert wrote about him: Early on Thursday morning, August 10, Nitsch, assisted by four members of the Ordnungspolizei, threw Peter Hoebers and Peter Korsten out of their beds in Helden-Panningen. Korsten, father of thirteen children, however, had nothing to do with the combat groups (K.P.).But he did have something to do with L.O., the organization that helped the people in hiding! The Korsten Nitsch was searching for was not P., but L. Korsten. Hoebers was the first to be taken out of his house and shot in front of it after Nitsch’s command run, run faster. The same fate befell P. Korsten. Their bodies were to be left lying in the street. [2]
    The Everlo Memorial in Panningen (municipality of Helden) was erected to commemorate 94 fellow citizens who died as a result of wartime actions during the occupation. [3]
    Peter Johannes ( Peter ) Korsten is listed in the Erelijst 1940-1945 (Honor Roll of the Dutch Parliament). [4]

    Footnotes

    1. Wikipedia NL Centrale Crisis Controle Dienst
    2. Dr. F. Cammaert, Het Verborgen Front – Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde illegaliteit in de provincie Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Doctorale scriptie 1994, Groningen
      6. De Landelijke Organisatie voor hulp aan onderduikers, p.603
    3. Everlo-monument, Panningen
    4. Erelijst 1940-1945
    5. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
    6. https://www.wo2slachtoffers.nl/bio/52634/Korsten-Peter.htm