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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Geleen is a city in the southern part of the province of Limburg in the Netherlands. With 33,960 inhabitants, it is part of the municipality of Sittard-Geleen. Geleen is situated along the river Geleenbeek, a right tributary to the river Meuse. The Latin name for Geleenbeek is Glana, meaning…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The Medway raid of 9-14/19-24 June 1667 saw a Dutch fleet sail into the Thames and attack the British fleet in its anchorage in the Medway, causing a panic in London and winning a victory that helped bring the Second Anglo-Dutch War to an end. At the end of…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults…
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When you look up information on Anne Frank, the first thing you will see is that she is described as a German born or Dutch Diarist, as if she was a well established author or Journalist, but she wasn’t. She was just a teenage girl who happened to write a diary, like so many other…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I came across the above picture a few years ago and the information I got with it is that the children in the picture were orphans, staying with the nuns in Castle Hoensbroek, in Limburg .the south east of the Netherlands However all the children had been placed under…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: ? The Dutch are known for their love of bicycles, for most Dutch people it is the first choice of means of transport. Needless to say that the bicycle did play an important role in WWII. There is a long running joke about the Germans giving back dutch bikes,…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: At the moment there is a lot of talk how social media is used to distribute propaganda, but the widespread of propaganda is nothing new. The ‘social media’ during WWII was the radio. About 18 months after the Germans invaded the Netherlands they started broadcasting German language course programs.…
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Originally posted on Becky's Poems, Books family history and ww1/2 journey: For many months and weeks people, organisations and communities up and down the country and abroad have been planning events and memorials in order to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day which takes place tomorrow. Being such a pivotal point in the war it…
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