• Operation Bricklayer

Date of birth:

January 7th, 1914 (Hamburg, German Empire)

Date of death:

April 26th, 1944 (Crete, Greece)

Buried on:

German War Cemetery Maleme
Plot: 2. Grave: 880.

Nationality:

German

Unteroffizier Fenske was first the personal driver of German General Müller and later that of Kreiper. When the latter was kidnapped by an SOE team on Crete, Fenske was beaten unconscious with a truncheon by Captain Moss. The wounded driver was later murdered by a group of Greek resistance fighters. The original plan was to kidnap both the general and his driver.

He left behind a wife and a small child.

Moss's baton can be seen at the Imperial War Museum London.

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• Photo 1: Findagrave
• - BEEVER, A., Crete 1941, Penguin Books Ltd, 2014.
  - LEIGH FERMOR, P., Abducting a General, John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2014.
  - Volksbund
  - Material concerning Alfred Fenske, driver of General Kreipe, killed during the abduction of Kreipe, including...

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