Willem Sassen, Dutch Nazi collaborator and journalist who interviewed Adolf Eichmann
Another explanation, however, is that the name arose from transplanted Saxons brought to the Eifel by Charlemagne.
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It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kelberg, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.
On 22 June 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa), and Sassen volunteered for the German Eastern front.
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On 6 June 1944 (D-Day), Kriegsberichter Sassen was at the front in Normandy reporting the battles around Caen, Bayeux, Saint-Lô, Avranches, Falaise and Lisieux.
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On 26 July 1942, Sassen was wounded near Rostov and during the following eight months recovered in hospitals in Kraków, Munich and Berlin.