The fallen resistance people in Limburg

Paul Leclou
(Paul Leon Willem Antoon)

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Paul Leclou attended the MTS (Secondary Technical School).
Cammaert writes about the situation in Voerendaal in 1940:
Former soldiers like Th.G.H. Treuen, L.A. Vlemmings, C. Spreksel, P.J. Habets and H.J. Haan distributed the illegal newspapers and leaflets. They received increasing support from young people, especially relatives and good friends. At the end of 1940, the secondary school students A.J.A. Rameckers, P.L.W.A. Leclou and H.H. Baeten formed an underground group. They reproduced and distributed illegal writings and photographs of the royal family. [1]
The Smit group they had joined was betrayed by a Dutchman with German parents, H.M.J. Thelen. He too was a former soldier and pretended to be against the occupation as well.
Paul Leclou was arrested on February 2, 1942, sentenced in Amsterdam, classified as a Nacht und Nebel (NN, Night & Fog) prisoner. He succumbed in the concentration camp Dora (Nordhausen) on 29 April 1945, i.e. shortly after the liberation of that camp.
More information: Korte biografie van drie Voerendaalse verzetsmensen, Short biography of three Voerendaal resistance fighters, including Paul Leclou. That is also one of the two sources of his picture, from his In Memoriam card. [2]
Testimony by his resistance colleague A.J.A. Rameckers, written July 24, 1982. [3]
See also Charles Spreksel
His remains lie in the cemetery of honor Ehrenfriedhof Nordhausen [4] grave 3.

Footnotes

1. Dr. F. Cammaert, Het Verborgen Front – Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde illegaliteit in de provincie Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Doctorale scriptie 1994, Groningen
   2. De eerste militair-civiele verzetsformaties, p.109
2. Korte biografie van drie Voerendaalse verzetsmensen
3. A.J.A. Rameckers, 24 juli 1982
4. 1. Ehrenfriedhof Nordhausen
   2. OpenStreetMap
   3. Foto’s Mittelbau-Dora, Nordhausen - Thüringen
5. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
6. https://www.verzetsmuseum.org/dachau/paul-leclou