Frans J. Henssen
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Frans J. Henssen is listed in the Resistance Memorial on the
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Frans J. Henssen


∗ 11-12-1918 Simpelveld     † 08-08-1944 Simpelveld (25)
- Knokploegen (K.P.) - Simpelveld -

    Frans Henssen was orphaned at an early age. He was a machine fitter, and during the invasion of the German army he served in an anti-aircraft battery. During the war he married Anny Schmetz. The couple had their son Wen in 1941, who was given the first name of the American president Franklin as his middle name. He sabotaged German telephone poles, made fake keys for the resistance. He was employed in a munitions factory in Aachen, where he provoked a machine malfunction. In the course of 1944 (because of this?) he was sought by the Germans and, while trying to arrest him, was shot by two patrolling land guards. The perpetrators were sentenced to long prison terms after the war. Source:

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