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Elsewhere, Dutch forces stayed in the war; in Europe the fight continued from Zeeland (Battle of Zeeland) to Dunkirk, where a Dutch Royal Navy officer, Lodo van Hamel, assisted in the evacuation of allied troops. Van Hamel was first to parachute back into the Netherlands a few months later, with the mission to set up the resistance in the ...
The Resistance Museum (Dutch: Verzetsmuseum) is a museum located in the Plantage neighbourhood in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. [1] The Dutch Resistance Museum, chosen [ by whom? ] as the best historical museum of the Netherlands, [ 2 ] aims to tell the story of the Dutch people in World War II .
For example, Norman Davies wrote "Armia Krajowa (Home Army), the AK, which could fairly claim to be the largest of European resistance"; [77] Gregor Dallas wrote "Home Army (Armia Krajowa or AK) in late 1943 numbered around 400,000, making it the largest resistance organization in Europe"; [7] Mark Wyman wrote "Armia Krajowa was considered the ...
25 Aug: J.A. van Bijnen becomes the National Sabotage Commander of the Knokploegen [3] (Knokploegen were Dutch resistance fighting squads) 28 Aug: First new airdrop of weapons and sabotage materials for Dutch underground groups [3] 30 Aug: Hitler orders the improvement and extension of the Siegfried Line [3]
Dutch-Paris escape line was a resistance network during World War II with ties to the Dutch, Belgian and French Resistance. Their main mission was to rescue people from the Nazis by hiding them or taking them to neutral countries.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Dutch resistance members (3 C, 185 P) N. Nazis assassinated by the Dutch resistance (5 P)
11 August – Joop Westerweel, schoolteacher and World War II resistance leader (b. 1899) 18 August – Dirk Boonstra, resistance membe (b. 1920) 2 September – Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz, explorer and diplomat (b. 1871) 3 September – Ernst de Jonge, lawyer, Olympic rower and member of the Dutch resistance (b. 1914). [12]
In 1946, in the name of the Dutch government, he officially claimed 4,980 km 2 (1,920 sq mi) of German territory, which was not even half of the area envisioned by Van Kleffens. The Dutch-German border would be drawn from Vaals via Winterswijk to the Ems River, so that 550,000 Germans would live inside the Dutch national borders.