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A Cocaine-Addled German Stole a Golden Box, and that Cost Him His Life.

Summary by Omroep Brabant
His name adorns signs in a street in Breda. But who is this General van der Plaat, I have been wondering for years? It turns out he defended Breda heroically over 200 years ago and received a golden snuff box as a token of gratitude. A very bloody history would later become attached to that gift: a murder and a suicide. Great excitement reigns in Breda City Hall in the summer of 1933. Two paintings and a golden snuff box (a box in which snuff to…
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His name adorns signs in a street in Breda. But who is this General van der Plaat, I have been wondering for years? It turns out he defended Breda heroically over 200 years ago and received a golden snuff box as a token of gratitude. A very bloody history would later become attached to that gift: a murder and a suicide. Great excitement reigns in Breda City Hall in the summer of 1933. Two paintings and a golden snuff box (a box in which snuff to…

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Omroep Brabant broke the news on Saturday, August 1, 2026.
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