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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 .
The Vrije Groepen Amsterdam (VGA, "Free Groups of Amsterdam") was a federation of Dutch resistance groups in Amsterdam during the final years of World War II. The VGA was founded in late 1943 to coordinate the activities of Amsterdam's resistance groups. The groups counted some 350 members, about a fifth of whom had a Jewish or part-Jewish ...
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More officially, Dutch-Paris also served as part of the Swiss Way – A that smuggled information between the Dutch Resistance in the Netherlands and the Dutch government-in-exile in London. Pastor Willem Visser 't Hooft oversaw the Swiss Way. These more official documents were converted into microfilms and hidden in fountain pens, flashlights ...
The Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (BS; English: 'Domestic Armed Forces'), fully the Nederlandse Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (NBS), was a government-sanctioned union of Dutch resistance groups during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II, which had hardly cooperated until then.
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]
The Putten raid (Dutch: Razzia van Putten) was a civilian raid conducted by Nazi Germany in occupied Netherlands during the Second World War. On 1 October 1944, a total of 602 men – almost the entire male population of the village – were taken from Putten , in the central Netherlands , and deported to various concentration camps inside Germany.