Prosper Dezitter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Belgian Nazi collaborator
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Place of Birth: Passendale, Flemish Region, Belgium
About Prosper Dezitter
- Prosper Dezitter (also known as Prosper de Zitter, alias "the man with the missing finger") was a Belgian collaborator with Nazi Germany in World War II.Dezitter was born in Passendale in 1893.
- In May 1913 he fled to Canada after being convicted of rape and sentenced to three years in prison.
- In 1918, he briefly joined the newly formed Royal Air Force, but his enlistment ended after a few months with the ending of World War 1.
- He returned to Belgium in 1926, where he worked as a car salesman, but spent six years in prison for embezzlement and escroqueries au marriage - "marriage fraud".During the German occupation of Belgium during World War II, Dezitter was able to pose as a Royal Canadian Air Force airman on the run.
- Calling himself "Captain Jackson" he infiltrated a resistance group led by Marcel Demonceau.
- He also ran an escape line for downed allied airmen, which was in reality a ruse to capture them and members of the resistance.
- Dezitter worked for money, and was paid a bonus for each Allied flier he helped capture.After World War II, Dezitter was arrested in Germany, extradited to Belgium, and condemned to death.
- He was executed at Ixelles on 17 September 1948.The National Archives in London hold two files of papers on Dezitter, reference KV 2/1732 and KV 2/1733.
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