Reinhold Peters
The then ten-year-old witnessed the American advance in the Hünxe area. In front of his parents' house on Bergschlagweg, he witnessed an argument between German soldiers that ended fatally. The situation was captured by an American army photographer at the time. In an audio recording from 2006, Reinhold Peters recounts what happened before the photographer took the picture. Reinhold Peters died in 2014; he was an honorary mayor of Hünxe for many years.
Bergschlagweg near Hünxe. Standing on the stairs is Reinhold Peters, the boy in the front centre,
in shorts and on socks.
Reinhold Peters talks about his experiences at the time on 5 April 2006:
With the kind permission of Werner Schenzer.