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Klaus
Fictional Character
"The Phantom Tolbukhin"
POD: c. 1937
Type of Appearance: Direct
Nationality: Germany
Date of Birth: 20th century
Date of Death: 1947
Cause of Death: Shot to death
Occupation: Soldier
Affiliations: Wehrmacht (World War II)

Klaus was a German soldier stationed in Ukraine in 1947. While marching through a muddy balka in Zaporozhye, he told a dirty joke about Natasha, a local comfort woman. Minutes later, his platoon was ambushed and killed by guerrillas of the Fourth Ukrainian Front.[1]

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  1. See, e.g., Counting Up, Counting Down, p. 117.
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