the Netherlands
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This day marks the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Mesch. The first village in the Netherlands to be liberated. It was more than three months after the Normandy landings when the men of the Thirtieth Infantry Division, Old Hickory, commanded by Captain Kent, crossed the Dutch-Belgian border at ten o’clock in the morning on…
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Johan (Joop) Westerweel (January 25, 1899, Zutphen – August 11, 1944, Vught) was a schoolteacher and a Christian anarchist who became a Dutch World War II resistance leader, the head of the Westerweel Group. Westerweel along with Joachim Simon and other Jewish and colleagues, helped save in the region of 200 to 300 Jewish lives by organizing…
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Without trying to blow my own trumpet, or in this case my countries trumpet, it is a well know fact that the Dutch are among the most inventive people in the world. As was the case with the crew of the HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen(and HMAS Abraham Crijnssen for a while) Sometimes in life, the guy…
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This man is true inspiration to me in a very personal way.Like me he had only the use of one eye, but unlike me he risked his life many times. Leo Major was a French Canadian man born in 1921. He probably didn’t think he was going to be more of a hero than the…
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