The razing of Friesoythe was the destruction of the town of Friesoythe in Lower Saxony on 14 April 1945, during the Western Allies' invasion of Germany...

Friesoythe, in Saterland Frisian language Ait or Äit, is a town in the district of Cloppenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany, on the river Soeste, 25 kilometres...

stages of this battle he ordered his division to raze the German town of Friesoythe. The division subsequently destroyed around 85–90% of the town and used...

resulted in the Highlanders setting fire to civilian property in the town of Friesoythe in an act of reprisal. Stacey later wrote that the Canadian troops first...

"Cloppenburg, Hinrich Anton Adolph geb. 11 Apr 1844 Altenoythe / Aoy., Friesoythe, CLP, NI, D gest. 14 Nov 1922 's Gravenhage, ZH, NL = Den Haag, ZH, NL"...

CD – 1992–1993 Major-General Nicholas Hall, CD – 1991–1993 Razing of Friesoythe Christopher Vokes "4th Canadian Armoured Division – Quartermaster Section"...

Werther. Quakenbrück, cantons: Ankum, Cloppenburg, Diepholz, Dinklage, Friesoythe, Löningen, Quakenbrück, Vechta, Vörden and Wildeshausen. Lingen, cantons:...

(Schleswig-Holstein) Friedrichsthal (Saarland) Friesack (Brandenburg) Friesoythe (Lower Saxony) Fritzlar (Hesse) Frohburg (Saxony) Fröndenberg (North Rhine-Westphalia)...

pounds. 1945 – Razing of Friesoythe: The 4th Canadian (Armoured) Division deliberately destroys the German town of Friesoythe on the orders of Major General...

where the hell the food is." The Scheldt The Rhineland Closing Phases Friesoythe Canadian Army Historian C.P. Stacey commented that the only time he saw...