#Landmark
Crash of a German fighter
On 10 February 1944, a German aircraft crashed in Diffelen after engaging in combat with the Allies.
Early in the afternoon of 10 February 1944, Unteroffizier Rudolf Kuhrz (1920 to 1944), flying a Focke-Wulf 190A-7, became involved in an aerial battle over the Hardenberg region with an unidentified opponent - undoubtedly an Allied aircraft.
Kuhrz did not survive the fight; both plane and pilot crashed into a section of the river Vecht in Diffelen. The military police found the fighter in the water and the mutilated body of Kuhrz on the riverbank. His body was initially buried in the Oosterbegraafplaats in Enschede, but on 8 October 1948 it was reinterred at the German war cemetery in Ysselsteyn.
On 5 May 2025, an information panel was unveiled to commemorate this event.