Liberation NL

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Liberation of The Netherlands 

Second World War

The start of the war 

• Germany invades NL on May 10th 1940 
• Rotterdam bombed by Germany 
• Royal family flees to England 
• Anti-Jewish measures implemented 

During the war 

• In 1941 the first deportations took place 
• In 1942 Jews are required to wear a yellow star of David 
• The Dutch transit camp Wetserbork is in use from 1941 on
• Arbeiteinsatz: every man between 18-45 could be called upon to work in Germany 

During the war 

• Resistance movement all over Netherland come into action
  
•  Sabotaging telephone and trabsport lines 
• Blowing up railroads, forging ration cards and passports 
• Hiding Jews and others 
• Oranjehotel in Scheveningen: where resistance fighters were kept 
• Waalsdorpervlakte: 250 resistance fighters shot 

The end of the war 

• NL is liberated on 5th of May 1945 by the Canadians 
• Collaborators and NSB members are arrested and interned 
• Women who are suspected of having had relatiosn with Germans are ridiculed and often their hair shaven off 

Aftermath for NL 

• 198.800 deaths:
• 88.900 civilian deaths 
• 63.000 military deaths 
• 102.000 Jewish deaths 

“It is my earnest hope, indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past, a world founded upon faith and understanding, a world dedicated to the dignity of man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish for freedom, tolerance, and justice.”