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Published on: 2016-01-03
Released on: 2016-01-03
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When I was between the age of 7 and 12, I experienced the invasion and subsequent five year occupation by the Nazi Germans of my then home country, the Netherlands. Although I was quite young, I fully remember the experience and feel confident that what the reader will find in this book is what actually occurred. My family lived in a literal war zone just south of the Rotterdam border in a suburb named Barendrecht. At 4:00 AM on May 10, 1940 I woke up and looking through our bedroom window we saw literally hundreds of German paratroopers descending. With no Dutch defense forces nearby, the air invasion was literally peaceful. We were occupied territory before breakfast on that fateful day. Three days later we saw Rotterdam burning from where we lived. The first bombing of the center of a major city occurred on that day. The Nazis would pay for that because the Allies later in the war began using the same strategy to force Germany to surrender. The invasion only lasted five or six days, and we became occupied territory of the German Nazis. Although the then Dutch government had hoped that the Netherlands would be able to stay neutral, they were wrong. Their country was strategically very important for the Nazis because it gave them territory from where they could launch their assault on Great Britain. Rotterdam had excellent port facilities, and would also become a submarine base. Later nearly all V1 and V2's largely targeted at England were launched from the Netherlands. We could see every V2 launched from where we lived. There were about 1,300 of them. Shortly after the occupation began, the Germans decided they needed barracks facilities for their troops and built them across the street from where we lived. Yes, we lived in a war zone for the full five years of the occupation. The most dramatic year of the five year occupation was the last year. Many events occurred, including the notorious famine which killed 18,000 people because of lack of food. Later an unknown number of people died from after-effects of the famine. The last year being the end of the war also caused the Nazi occupiers to become more brutal. Thousands of innocent people were executed because of minor incidents by the Resistance. The total number of Germans killed by the Resistance was less than ten. But the Germans found excuses to execute hostages in huge numbers. There was no mercy. Since the Netherlands was also in between Britain and Germany, there were many overflights of Allied bombers and other aircraft. During the five year war on average three aircraft crashed each day for a total of over 5,000 aircraft. In addition whenever an aircraft was in trouble it would dump its bombs. In most cases they ended up on farm land. But occasionally housing was also hit. In conclusion I am sure you will love this book. If you like war stories and the major war of the 20th century, read my book. I was there, and what you read is non-fiction but entertaining. THE SECOND WORLD WAR - Churchill. Books The Second World War is indeed intensely personal considering the war ... It is important to remember that The Second World War is not all memoirs. A Founding Myth for the Netherlands: The Second World War ... A Founding Myth for the Netherlands: The Second World War ... The founding myth of the Second World War in the Netherlands ... A Founding Myth for the Netherlands: ... Netherlands in World War II Military Wiki Fandom ... The city of Rotterdam after the German terror bombing during the German invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940. The involvement of the Netherlands in World War II ... Andrew Sharples' top 10 war memoirs Books The Guardian Soldiers under fire during the second world war in Sicily 1943. ... Bravo Two Zero was probably the first war memoir I ever read and my introduction to the world of ... Memoirs of the Second World War - Winston Churchill ... The quintessential account of the Second World War as seen ... are distilled here in a single essential volume.Memoirs of the Second World War is a vital and ... World War II Memoirs (98 books) - Goodreads Memoirs of the Second World War by Winston S. Churchill 4.39 avg ... Prisoner of War Number 21860: The World War II Memoirs of Oliver Omanson by Oliver Omanson 4.33 ... Netherlands in World War II - Wikipedia The direct involvement of the Netherlands in World War II began with its invasion by Nazi Germany on 10 May 1940. ... Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War ... The Second World War (book series) - Wikipedia The Second World War is a history of the ... The Second World War can be read with profit by students of the period but as a memoir by a leading participant rather ... Memoirs of the Second World War: An ... - Buy Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of The Second World War on FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders ... Netherlands; Spain;
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