Reddit reviews Operation Market-Garden Then and Now (v. 1 & 2)

Better quality photo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Friedrich_Kussin_dead.jpg

That doesn't look like "scalping", that looks like he took a round that blew out the back of his head, leaving his rear-scalp hanging loose.

There's no mention of scalping on this page:

http://www.battledetective.com/Kussin_Junction.html

..and the following page uses the term "scalp" in a very disjointed sentence that makes no sense the way it's written:

http://ww2gravestone.com/friedrich-kussin-the-first-general-to-be-killed-during-operation-market-garden/

The next goup of British paras pulled Kussin out of the car
and from the next group passing by a show-off scalped the General.

I require a frickin citation for the claim that British paratroopers "purposely scalped a german general and his driver with a knife".

There is documented evidence that they shot the hell out of the car :)

edit This page over here also has broken english used to describe the scene:

http://albumwar2.com/the-corpse-of-german-general-friedrich-kussin/

Photographer Dennis Smith made this famous shot of the day after
the death of General Friedrich Kussin. By this time, over the
murdered body mutilated, scalped him. In addition, the general
broke off his uniform insignia, awards, and almost all the buttons.

So the photos were taken a day latter, after the general's body had been looted (by whom?) and exactly who is claiming that "a scalping" had occurred? Or is it some not-english-as-a-first-language commentator who sees a shot up body making shit up and/or who doesn't know what "scalping" refers to in western English vernacular?

Ooooh, if I look up "scalping" in a dictionary, it refers to "being scalped", which is simply referred to "scalp" - no-where does it imply that a PERSON does the scalping, which is what everyone in North America thinks of because of the historical accounts of scalping by Native North Americans.

None of these broken english accounts me to believe the general was scalped deliberately by a human being, but rather simply "he was scalped" period - likely by the the gunfire.

The english-as-second-language guy looked something up in his Dutch to English dictionary, and chose the word "scalped" to describe the injury visible.

edit2 Oh wait, this isn't broken english if "show-off" is a noun describing a person who was "showing off" ... maybe it does indicate that one of the follow on columns of troops had one asshole who scalped the general.

a show-off scalped the General.

I'd still like a better reference.

edit3 Further research shows that this is ALL SUPPOSITION by the author of this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Market-garden-Then-Now-v/dp/1870067479

..who is quoted as saying:

"Though this picture has been published countless times,
no one has ever commented on the ugly image of war
which this photo clearly shows, namely that the General
has been scalped 'indian-style.' Note also that his badges
of rank have been removed from his collar."
p.299 "Operation Market-Garden, Then and Now", Vol.1., After the Battle, 2002

There is no basis in history to conclude that this gentleman was scalped by a British trooper, other that interpretation of the photo by a random someone 60 years latter.

edit4 Does look like a really straight cut though, doesn't it. :|