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by VOX
December 24th, 2019, 5:23 pm
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Topic: Merry Christmass
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Merry Christmass

I wish you all a merry Christmass, may you have a good one.
by VOX
December 21st, 2019, 9:07 pm
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Topic: Today in History
Replies: 138
Views: 55897

Re: Today in History

In the still occupied western part of the Netherlands, in particular in the major city's, the situation is getting worse by the day. Soon the temperature will dip below freezing, it will stay there for weeks. The civilian population is getting allready malnurished. In desperation more and more peopl...
by VOX
December 19th, 2019, 3:47 am
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Topic: Today in History
Replies: 138
Views: 55897

Re: Today in History

The situation in the Ardennes/Eifel is getting desperate as the german troops are pushing ever deeper into the allied lines. However, on a few key places their assault is being halted, most importantly at Bastogne. This city was an important crossroad for the main roads through the Ardennes. Denying...
by VOX
December 16th, 2019, 11:44 pm
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Topic: Today in History
Replies: 138
Views: 55897

Re: Today in History

Today, one of the better known ss crimes takes place at Malmedy. 84 American prisoners of war are massacred at a crossroad near the village of Malmedy. Gefechtsgruppe Peiper , an ss unit under command of Joachim Peiper , had commit several warcrimes in the day before, had lead the captured into a fi...
by VOX
December 15th, 2019, 4:00 am
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Topic: Today in History
Replies: 138
Views: 55897

Re: Today in History

In the german headquater the final preparations for operation "Wacht am Rhein" ( "Watch on the Rhine") are being completed. This operation is the final , big, offensive of the german army in WW2. In continental Europe it's know as "the Ardenne offensive" , in the UK and...
by VOX
December 4th, 2019, 8:56 am
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Topic: Today in History
Replies: 138
Views: 55897

Re: Today in History

On December 3th the village of Blerick becomes the last one to be liberated in The Netherlands this year. It will be more then one and a half month before the allies go further . As mentioned before, the Netherlands didn't have priority. After the battle of Arnhem bridge, the germans impose a ban on...
by VOX
November 28th, 2019, 4:23 am
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Topic: Today in History
Replies: 138
Views: 55897

Re: Today in History

Operations in the Netherlands are gearing down. Until now , the allies have been kreeping up North and North-East and kept liberating towns and village's along the way. However, as winter is coming, the weather in North-Western europe is getting worse, with heavy cloud cover, rain and hard winds. Th...
by VOX
November 18th, 2019, 4:21 am
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Topic: Today in History
Replies: 138
Views: 55897

Re: Today in History

First I have to make some corrections: First: I said only one was ever captured. Unfortunally that is not correct, at least 2 others where and they where actually shot, just day's before the end of the war. Second: I said it was set up by the resistance, part of it was but others acted on their own....
by VOX
November 14th, 2019, 4:54 am
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Topic: Today in History
Replies: 138
Views: 55897

Re: Today in History

On the border between liberated and occupied parts of the Netherlands lies the Biesbosch. This is a region of the Netherlands made out of tidal forrest, creeks and such, it lies between the city of Dordrecht and the villages Werkendam and Sliedrecht in the North and Drimmelen in the South but more i...
by VOX
November 10th, 2019, 6:44 am
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Topic: Today in History
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Views: 55897

Re: Today in History

About 10.000 men where brought to the North-Eastern part of the Netherlands, the rest where, indeed, transported to germany, in particular the Ruhr erea.