Willy Schneider [SEP] place of death
Willy Schneider
Willy Schneider (5 September 1905, in Cologne – 12 January 1989, in Cologne) was a German schlager singer.
Songs.
- 1937: "Auf der Heide blüh'n die letzten Rosen"
- 1937: "Das kannst Du nicht ahnen"
- 1937: "Kornblumenblau"
- 1938: "Grün ist die Heide"
- 1938: "Blaue Donau, grüner Rhein" (on occasion of the Anschluss)
- 1939: "Gute Nacht, Mutter"
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the war, Major Eric Barkworth of the 2nd Special Air Service Regiment was tasked with establishing what had happened to the missing captured SAS members. His efforts resulted in the prosecution and conviction of some of the culprits.
For the murder of the SAS parachutists, Erich Isselhorst, Karl Oberg and Wilhelm Schneider were sentenced to death by a British military tribunal in Wuppertal in June 1946, with Isselhorst handed over to the French. General Willy Seeger, in charge of an involved reserve Wehrmacht division in Alsace at the time, was