found: Ill met by moonlight, 1998:CIP galley (Nazi General Kreipe; General Karl Kreipe; commander of Sevastopol Div. (22nd Panzer Grenadier Div.) in Crete in 1944)
found: LC database, Jan. 23, 1998(hdg.: Kreipe, Karl)
found: Wikipedia, November 26, 2014(Heinrich Kreipe; Karl Heinrich Georg Ferdinand Kreipe; born June 5, 1895 in Niederspier, Thuringia; died June 14, 1976 in Northeim; German career soldier who served in both World War I and World War II; he is most famous for his spectacular abduction when he was a general by British and Cretan resistance fighters from occupied Crete in April 1944; W. Stanley Moss, one of the leaders of the operation, wrote a bestselling account of the abduction, Ill Met by Moonlight)
found: World War II Database, via WWW, November 26, 2014(Heinrich Kreipe; born 5 June 1895; died 14 June 1976; Karl Heinrich Georg Ferdinand Kreipe was born in Niederspier, Thüringen, German Empire in 1895; he volunteered for the German Army in WW1, and was made a lieutenant in December 1915; shortly after WW1, he joined the Hessen-Thüringen-Waldeck Freikorps para-military organization, and in October 1919 the Reichswehr; when WW2 broke out in September 1939, he held the rank of colonel; he commanded the 209th Infantry Regiment of the German 58th Infantry Division during the invasion of France in 1940; in 1941, in the same capacity, he saw action during Operation Barbarossa, driving his regiment toward Leningrad in northern Russia; in May 1942, he was transferred out of the Leningrad area back to Germany, where he would serve at desk and teaching positions for the following year; between June and October 1943, he commanded the 79th Infantry Division on the Eastern Front; in Mar 1944, he was made the commanding officer of the 22nd Air Landing Infantry Division based in Crete, Greece; on 26 Apr 1944, after he left his headquarters in Archanes, he was kidnapped by British operatives Major Patrick Leigh Fermor and Captain Bill Stanley Moss, who successfully extracted themselves and the captive by sea to Mersa Matruh, Egypt; Kreipe spent the remainder of the war as a prisoner of war first in Canada and later in Wales, United Kingdom; he was released in 1947)
found: Deutsche National Bibliothek, November 26, 2014(Kreipe, Heinrich, 1895-1976; Major General of the Army, the last commander of the 22nd Infantry Division)
