[1] Rosch was an eighteen-year-old German soldier and along with his platoon, was stationed in a farm in Goirle when Allied forces opened fire on them.

Rosch noticed that the two children of the farmer who owned the land seemed oblivious of the danger around them and continued to play in the courtyard.

He again ran outside to position himself on the other side of the courtyard when a grenade hit him right at the spot where the children were earlier.

[2] Because Rosch was a German soldier, and the enemy, his story was kept private after the war.

On November 4, 2008 a bronze statue was erected on a private property in Goirle in memory of Karl-Heinz Rosch.