Karl Heinrich Georg Ferdinand Kreipe (5 June 1895 – 14 June 1976) was a German career soldier who served in both World War I and World War II. While leading...
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The kidnapping of Heinrich Kreipe was an operation executed jointly by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) and local resistance members in...
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Kreipe is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Heinrich Kreipe (1895–1976), German general Werner Kreipe (1904–1967), German general...
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features the young agents' capture and evacuation of the German general Heinrich Kreipe. During World War II, the Greek island of Crete is occupied by the...
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Heinrich Kreipe, was abducted by a British Special Operations Executive team led by Major Patrick Leigh Fermor and Captain W. Stanley Moss. Kreipe's car...
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operation in Crete during the Second World War to capture German general Heinrich Kreipe. Moss kept a diary during the war years and based his book on it. The...
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evacuated the German commander, Major General Heinrich Kreipe. There is a memorial commemorating Kreipe's abduction near Archanes in Crete. Moss featured...
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portrayed a German U-boat commander. Michael Powell wanted Jurgens to play Heinrich Kreipe in Ill Met By Moonlight (1957) but the Rank Organisation would not...
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the movement's most famous moments included the abduction of General Heinrich Kreipe led by Leigh Fermor and Moss, the battle of Trahili, the sabotage of...
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branch. However, on 1 March, Müller was replaced by Major General Heinrich Kreipe who was eventually abducted instead of Müller in April 1944. On 1 July...
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Generaloberst Heinrich Kirchheim, Generalleutnant Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Generalfeldmarschall Theodor Krancke, Kriegsmarine Admiral Heinrich Kreipe, Generalmajor...
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of Nordheim (ca 1020–1083), Duke of Bavaria from 1061 until 1070. Heinrich Kreipe (1895–1976), general, died there Georg Diederichs (1900–1983), local...
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best remembered for Operation 'BRICKLAYER', the capture of General Heinrich Kreipe on Crete and abduction of him to Egypt, in April and May 1944. Leigh...
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of Crete and the German occupation. After the abduction of General Heinrich Kreipe, the German army destroyed a number of villages in the area, killing...
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partisans who had participated in the kidnapping of German general Heinrich Kreipe. They trained him in bomb-making.: 131 In 1963, Tsafendas was granted...
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SOE operative in Heraklion, Crete, who abducted the German General Heinrich Kreipe to Egypt. Stewart Menzies Merlin Minshall Minshall worked for Ian Fleming...
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"Albumen" Gorgopotamos Bridge (Operation "Harling") Operation "Animals" Asopos Bridge (Operation "Washing") Kidnapping of Heinrich Kreipe Damasta sabotage...
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"Albumen" Gorgopotamos Bridge (Operation "Harling") Operation "Animals" Asopos Bridge (Operation "Washing") Kidnapping of Heinrich Kreipe Damasta sabotage...
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"Albumen" Gorgopotamos Bridge (Operation "Harling") Operation "Animals" Asopos Bridge (Operation "Washing") Kidnapping of Heinrich Kreipe Damasta sabotage...
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attempts to assassinate Erwin Rommel and the successful kidnapping of Heinrich Kreipe. Shown on NatGeo TV. Asher is the author of ten novels and fourteen...
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Fermor had also been ensconced in Anogeia during the kidnapping of Heinrich Kreipe in May 1944, but escaped with his band of Cretan partisans when the...
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"Albumen" Gorgopotamos Bridge (Operation "Harling") Operation "Animals" Asopos Bridge (Operation "Washing") Kidnapping of Heinrich Kreipe Damasta sabotage...
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Some of the most famous moments included the abduction of General Heinrich Kreipe led by Leigh Fermor and Moss – subsequently portrayed in the film Ill...
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becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt. 1944 – Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete. 1945 – World War...
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"Albumen" Gorgopotamos Bridge (Operation "Harling") Operation "Animals" Asopos Bridge (Operation "Washing") Kidnapping of Heinrich Kreipe Damasta sabotage...
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"Albumen" Gorgopotamos Bridge (Operation "Harling") Operation "Animals" Asopos Bridge (Operation "Washing") Kidnapping of Heinrich Kreipe Damasta sabotage...
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Ritter von Kraußer, SA General Albert Krebs, NSDAP Gauleiter of Hamburg Heinrich Kreipe, German Army General Hermann Kriebel, NSDAP supporter Friedrich-Wilhelm...
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Resistance operations included airfield sabotages, the abduction of General Heinrich Kreipe by Patrick Leigh Fermor and Bill Stanley Moss, the battle of Trahili...
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stages of World War II, many Nazi leaders, such as the Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, believed that the alliance of Britain and the Soviet Union would...
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General Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller, Commander, "Fortress Crete" General Heinrich Kreipe, Commander, 22nd Air Landing Infantry Division Dr. Max Merten, Chief...
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