THE DRAMATIC LIBERATION OF AMSTERDAM By L. MARSLAND GANDER who, as The Daily Telegraph War Correspondent, entered Amsterdam with the first British troops of the 1st Canadian Army on May 7, 1945. Although the surrender of General Blaskowitz’s 21st German Army… (READ MORE)
After the signing of the capitulation at Wageningen, Prins Bernhard, Commander of Chief of the Domestic Armed Forces held the following speech for the liberated country: Fellow Countrymen! The hour of your liberation has come. The enemy has layed down the… (READ MORE)
The week before the liberation it was suddenly very quiet in our town Laren-Blaricum. The days before we heard constant gunshots, but it suddenly stopped from one day to the next. We understood that something was going on but what… (READ MORE)