As the saying goes “A picture tells a thousand words” therefor rather then writing at length about WWII in the Netherlands, I have decided that this time I will let the pictures do the talking.
The photograph on the top is a picture of American troops from the 82nd Airborne Division parachute into The Netherlands on Sept. 17, 1944.
Following are just a few pictures in no particular order
German SS soldiers advancing towards the Allies on stolen bicycles during Operation Market Garden.
In 1941 the German occupiers turned the Jewish district in Amsterdam into a ghetto.
Jews are being arrested during a raid in Amsterdam in February 1941
The city of Rotterdam after the German bombing during the German invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940.
Dutch soldiers guard the border with Germany shortly after mobilization, 1939
Diplomat being evacuated from occupied Holland. German special visa issued for the travel…
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