Escape To and Second Career in Argentina
On 5 June 1945, Sassen was arrested in Alkmaar by the British Field Security and interned in Fort Blauwkapel near Utrecht. On Christmas Eve of 1945, inmates performed the one-act play "The Escape" (Dutch: "De Ontsnapping") written by Sassen. At the end, Sassen called out, as the text of his role read: "I go to London, father! The radio calls me! I cannot stay here! Good bye, father! I go!", thereby addressing his very father, who was in the audience, and with two fellow-inmates escaped through a window, the bars of which had been sawed in preparation.
In the 1970s, Sassen among others worked as a PR-consultant for Chile's dictator Pinochet, and Paraguay's dictator general Alfredo Stroessner. (or his third wife Els Delbaere?, see the equivalent Dutch article)
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