GESTAPO CHIEF SHOT DEAD
WORK OF NORWEGIAN PATRIOTS (Rec. 11.15 a.m.) London, April 12. The Gestapo chief of Stavanger, S.S. Obersturm-Fuhrer Wilkens, was shot dead by Norwegian Patriots, reports the Exchange Telegraph Agency. Patriots opened fire on a police party which Wilkens was leading on a security raid. Six others were wounded.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 13 April 1945, Page 5
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