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captured the town. During the fighting the battalion's commander was killed by a German soldier, but it was reported that he had been killed by a civilian. The division's commander, Major-General
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glosses over it. Forty years later, Vokes wrote in his autobiography that he had "no great remorse over the elimination of
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took place on 14 April 1945 towards the end of World War II. The
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