Gerrit van der Waals
1920–1948
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Occupation
- resistance fighter
Gerrit Hendricus Maria van der Waals (24 April 1920 â 11 August 1948) was a Dutch officer of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army and a member of the wartime resistance.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Lubyanka BuildingDates unknown
- Stalag 371 StanislauDates unknown
- Stalag 371 StanislauDates unknown
- Lubyanka BuildingDates unknown
- Lefortovo PrisonDates unknown
- Lefortovo PrisonDates unknown
Biography
Gerrit Hendricus Maria van der Waals (24 April 1920 â 11 August 1948) was a Dutch officer of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army and a member of the wartime resistance. After the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940, he escaped from a German POW camp in 1943 and later was active in anti-Nazi resistance in Hungary. Arrested by the advancing Soviet forces in late 1944, he was imprisoned in Moscow, accused of aiding anti-Soviet forces, and died there in 1948. He was posthumously awarded the Dutch Bronze Cross.
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