Maastricht
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It is amazing and in a way disturbing but this girl was born literally minutes away from where I was born and yet I was not aware of her existence or had even heard of her until now. 1944 Just a few seconds… that’s how long this girl stared into the camera on 19 May
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Today marks the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Maastricht, the first city in the Netherlands to be liberated from the Germans. Due to the fact that the small village of Wyck,nowadays a suburb of Maastricht) had been liberated on the 13th of September by 117 Old Hickory, the commander of the 353rd division,General Paul
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Maastricht is well known for one of it’s musicians Andre Rieu and also for the treaty which was signed on 2 February 1992 which shaped the EU.However it was also a battlefield at the start of WWII The Battle of Maastricht was one of the first battles that took place during the German Campaign on the
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Now I am not claiming that the battle of the Netherlands was forgotten but there are some facts which are virtually unknown outside of the Netherlands in indeed forgotten by a great number of Dutch citizens. The German campaign in Western Europe in May and June 1940 is – beyond the borders of the Netherlands
History of Sorts 
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