Peter Kuntz
(Petrus Josephus Maria)

∗ 01-02-1918 Zaandam † 11-05-1942 Oranienburg (24)
- OD trial of Maastricht - Initial resistance - Intelligence -

At the beginning of the war, Petrus Kuntz was a sergeant-capitulant [8] (non-commissioned officer who voluntarily remained in service after his compulsory military service.[1]) with the anti-aircraft artillery in his hometown of Zaandam [7].
He was arrested on March 28, 1941, and was in the Oranjehotel [2] until October 1941, and in Lüttringhausen until April 1942 (Book of the Dead Oranjehotel [8]).
More than 400 Dutch and 10 Belgian resistance fighters were imprisoned in the Lüttringhausen penitentiary near Wuppertal during the war. [3] In Kuntz’s case, perhaps because the Oranjehotel was overcrowded at the time. He had to appear before the military court in Maastricht [4] and was sentenced to death there. He and his comrades were taken to Oranienburg in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and shot there almost immediately after their arrival.
He is listed in the “Erelijst 1940-1945” (Honor Roll of the Dutch Parliament). [5]

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Peter Kuntz(Petrus Josephus Maria)

Peter Kuntz
(Petrus Josephus Maria)