Who is Cor Takes and Truus Coster from The Assault and what is their importance? The_Assault English & Literature Cor Takes and Truus Coster | The Assault

Cor Takes was a member of the Resistance during the war. Anton meets him in 1966 while attending the funeral of a poet also involved in the Resistance. Anton discovers during this initial meeting that Takes is the man who killed Fake Ploeg. Takes committed this murder because of the cruelty Ploeg committed against Resistance hostages, knowing the Germans would take retribution. In fact, one of the hostages that would be killed in retribution was Takes's own baby brother. When they meet, Takes tells Anton that a woman, his girlfriend, was with him that night and that she was shot, arrested, and later executed. Anton realizes that this woman is the same woman with whom he shared a cell that fateful night. Unfortunately, Anton cannot recall anything the woman told him, therefore he is unable to tell Takes that she was in love with him despite her careless avoidance of commitment during their relationship.