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Die Zerstörung von Friesoythe fand am 14. April 1945 während der Invasion der Westalliierten in Deutschland gegen Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs statt. Anfang April griff die 4. kanadische (gepanzerte) Division, die in den Nordwesten Deutschlands vordrang, die deutsche Stadt Friesoythe an. Das kanadische Infanterieregiment The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada eroberte die Stadt. Während des Kampfes wurde der Kommandeur eines Bataillons des Regiments von einem deutschen Soldaten getötet. Fälschlicherweise wurde aber von kanadischer Seite angenommen, dass er von einem deutschen Zivilisten getötet worden sei. The razing of Friesoythe was the destruction of the town of Friesoythe in Lower Saxony on 14 April 1945, during the Western Allies' invasion of Germany towards the end of World War II. The 4th Canadian (Armoured) Division attacked the German-held town of Friesoythe, and one of its battalions, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada, captured it.
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You should know our soldiers were kind to the children of our enemies, and kind to those in adversity. And they were, on the whole, great ambassadors for Canada.
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Die Zerstörung von Friesoythe fand am 14. April 1945 während der Invasion der Westalliierten in Deutschland gegen Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs statt. Anfang April griff die 4. kanadische (gepanzerte) Division, die in den Nordwesten Deutschlands vordrang, die deutsche Stadt Friesoythe an. Das kanadische Infanterieregiment The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada eroberte die Stadt. Während des Kampfes wurde der Kommandeur eines Bataillons des Regiments von einem deutschen Soldaten getötet. Fälschlicherweise wurde aber von kanadischer Seite angenommen, dass er von einem deutschen Zivilisten getötet worden sei. Unter diesem Irrglauben befahl der Kommandeur der Division, Generalmajor Christopher Vokes, dass die Stadt als Vergeltung im Wesentlichen zerstört werden solle. Die Trümmer sollten verwendet werden, um Krater in den örtlichen Straßen zu füllen, um sie für die Panzer und schweren Fahrzeuge der Division passierbar zu machen. Einige Tage zuvor hatte die Division in einer ähnlichen Repressalienaktion das Zentrum der Ortschaft Sögel zerstört und auch diese Trümmer genutzt, um die Straßen befahrbar zu machen. Der Vorfall wurde kaum öffentlich zur Kenntnis genommen. Er wird allerdings in den Regimentsgeschichten der beteiligten Einheiten und in mehreren Berichten über die Kampagne behandelt. Vierzig Jahre später schrieb Vokes in seiner Autobiografie, dass er „keine große Reue über die Beseitigung von Friesoythe“ empfinde. Die kanadischen Behörden hatten den Vorfall nicht untersucht. The razing of Friesoythe was the destruction of the town of Friesoythe in Lower Saxony on 14 April 1945, during the Western Allies' invasion of Germany towards the end of World War II. The 4th Canadian (Armoured) Division attacked the German-held town of Friesoythe, and one of its battalions, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada, captured it. During the fighting, the battalion's commander was killed by a German soldier, but it was incorrectly rumoured that he had been killed by a civilian. Under this mistaken belief, the division's commander, Major-General Christopher Vokes, ordered that the town be razed in retaliation and it was substantially destroyed. Twenty German civilians died in Friesoythe and the surrounding area during the two days of fighting and its aftermath. Similar, if usually less extreme, events occurred elsewhere in Germany as the Allies advanced in the closing weeks of the war. The rubble of the town was used to fill craters in local roads to make them passable for the division's tanks and heavy vehicles. A few days earlier, the division had destroyed the centre of Sögel in another reprisal and also used the rubble to make the roads passable. Little official notice was taken of the incident and the Canadian Army official history glosses over it. It is covered in the regimental histories of the units involved and several accounts of the campaign. Forty years later, Vokes wrote in his autobiography that he had "no great remorse over the elimination of Friesoythe".
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