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During the Second World War, the Royal Netherlands Motorized Infantry Brigade, later known as the Princess Irene Brigade (Dutch: Prinses Irene Brigade) was a Dutch military unit initially formed from approximately 1,500 troops, including a small group guarding German prisoners-of-war, who arrived in the United Kingdom in May 1940 following the collapse of the Netherlands.
United States Army in World War II. Washington, DC: Center of Military History. ISBN 978-016001-879-4. Foot, M. R. D. (2012) [1990]. Holland at War Against Hitler: Anglo-Dutch Relations 1940–1945. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-29166-1. Ford, Jack (1996). Allies in a Bind: Australia and the Netherlands East Indies in the Second World War (2nd ed ...
The Volunteer Legion Netherlands (Dutch: Vrijwilligerslegioen Nederland) was a collaborationist military formation recruited in the German-occupied Netherlands during World War II. It was formed in the aftermath of the German invasion of the Soviet Union and fought on the Eastern Front in the Waffen SS alongside similar formations from other ...
The Battle of the Scheldt in World War II was a series of military operations to open up ... The 156th West Scottish Brigade described the Dutch countryside as ...
8th Armoured Brigade Workshop, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers; 168th Light Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps; Royal Netherlands Brigade 'Prinses Irene', Colonel A. de Ruyter van Steveninck 1st Netherlands Independence Motorised Fighting Group, Major Paessens; 2nd Netherlands Independence Motorised Fighting Group, Major Molenaar
Dutch records suggest that at least 453 civilians died during the battle, either as a result of Allied bombing on the first day or during the subsequent fighting. [208] After the battle, the residents of Arnhem and its surrounding towns and villages were evicted from their homes, allowing the Germans to turn the north bank of the Rhine into an ...
The German invasion of the Netherlands (Dutch: Duitse aanval op Nederland), otherwise known as the Battle of the Netherlands (Dutch: Slag om Nederland), was a military campaign, part of Case Yellow (German: Fall Gelb), the Nazi German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands) and France during World War II. The ...
After the war, claims arose that the Dutch resistance had indeed been penetrated. One high-ranking Dutch officer who had worked in counter-intelligence at SHAEF, Lieutenant-Colonel Oreste Pinto , published a popular book, Spy Catcher , part-memoir and part counter-intelligence handbook.