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  2. Dutch resistance - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Verzetsmuseum - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  4. Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. 1944 in the Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    25 Aug: J.A. van Bijnen becomes the National Sabotage Commander of the Knokploegen [1] (Knokploegen were Dutch resistance fighting squads) 28 Aug: First new airdrop of weapons and sabotage materials for Dutch underground groups [1] 30 Aug: Hitler orders the improvement and extension of the Siegfried Line [1]

  6. Underground media in the German-occupied Netherlands

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    The Dutch underground press was part of the resistance to the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II, paralleling the emergence of underground media across German-occupied Europe. After the occupation of the Netherlands in May 1940, the Germans quickly took control over the existing Dutch press and enforced censorship and ...

  7. Dutch-Paris line - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  8. Walraven van Hall - Wikipedia

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    Walraven "Wally" van Hall (10 February 1906 – 12 February 1945) was a Dutch banker and resistance leader during the occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. [1] [2] He founded the bank of the Resistance, which was used to distribute funds to victims of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and fund the Dutch resistance. [3]

  9. Map of the liberation of North Brabant and Dutch Zeeland (Battle of the Scheldt). This is a chronological overview of the dates at which the liberation by the Allies in World War II took place of a number of Dutch cities and towns.