The Netherlands celebrates Liberation Day every year on May 5th, marking the surrender of all German troops in the Netherlands to the Allied Forces and the end of the German […]
Series: Remembering the Second World War in the Netherlands: Historical Sound of the 1950's
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While much of the south of the Netherlands was liberated in late 1944, the Allies made an ill-fated attempt to cross the Rhine into Germany near the city of Arnhem. […]
The failure of the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944 meant that the northern and western provinces of the Netherlands remained under German occupation, and the notorious Hunger Winter set […]
Finally on May 5th, German generals were summoned to Hotel De Wereld in the town of Wageningen and presented with the conditions of surrender by Canadian General Charles Foulkes, with […]
In 1945, the Second World War continued in the Pacific and Southeast Asia for several more months after the defeat of Germany. The Dutch Royal Navy had been among […]
This documentary, broadcast ten years after the end of World War II and fifteen years after the bombing of Rotterdam, looks back on a decade-and-a-half of occupation, liberation and reconstruction […]