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[4] The inn "De Woeste Hoeve" is located to the east of Hoenderloo and was built in 1771 along the road from Apeldoorn to Arnhem. [5] In March 1945, there was attempted assassination of Hanns Albin Rauter, the highest SS and Police Leader of the Netherlands, at De Woeste Hoeve. As a reprisal 117 people from various prisons were executed near De ...
German soldiers were encircled on the De Hoge Veluwe National Park and unexpectedly attacked the already liberated Dutch village Otterlo, leading to fierce fighting in hand-to-hand combat. It resulted in an Allied victory, thanks to the deployment of flamethrower tanks , and considerable German losses.
Morning mist hangs over the Planken Wambuis, Ede, in the Veluwe. The Veluwe (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈveːlyʋə] ⓘ) is a forest-rich ridge of hills (1100 km 2; 420 sq. mi.) in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands. The Veluwe features many different landscapes, including woodland, heath, some small lakes and Europe's largest sand drifts.
De Hoge Veluwe National Park (Dutch pronunciation: [də ˈɦoːɣə ˈveːlyʋə]; "The High Veluwe") is a Dutch national park in the province of Gelderland near the cities of Ede, Wageningen, Arnhem and Apeldoorn. It is approximately 55 km 2 (14,000 acres; 21 sq mi) in area, consisting of heathlands, sand dunes, and woodlands.
Otterlo is a village in the municipality of Ede of province of Gelderland in the Netherlands, in or near the Nationaal Park De Hoge Veluwe.. The Kröller-Müller Museum, named after Helene Kröller-Müller, is situated nearby and has the world's second largest collection of Vincent van Gogh paintings.
The Kröller-Müller Museum (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkrʏlər ˈmʏlər myˌzeːjʏm]) is a national art museum and sculpture garden, located in the Hoge Veluwe National Park in Otterlo in the Netherlands.
Her entire collection was eventually sold to the Dutch government, along with her and her husband, Anton Kröller's, large forested country estate. Today it is the Kröller-Müller Museum and sculpture garden and Hoge Veluwe National Park, one of the largest national parks in the Netherlands. [2]
De Wet was a personal friend of Helene Kröller-Müller (1869–1939), who commissioned a statue of him in the Hoge Veluwe National Park in the Netherlands. [23] Rudyard Kipling's 1903 poem Ubique mentions de Wet. [24] [25] General De Wet referenced in George Desmond Hodnett's 1958 Irish folk song Take Her Up to Monto: "You've seen the Dublin ...