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On the 13th of May, 2000, Roombeek, a neighborhood of the Dutch city of Enschede was utterly destroyed by a hugh explosion. A storage facility for , profesional , fireworks had caught fire. Around 3 pm, it started in one of the wharehouses on the location. It contained ca 900 kg of fireworks. Outsid...

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This is the final post in theis tread about the war in the Netherlands as: Today, May 4th, the german army in North-west europe surrenders unconditionally to the western allies. Hitler had commited suicide on April 30th and the , already, dwindeling moral of the german troops had plummited. There wa...

Today, final preparations are made for operation Manna and Chowhound. After extensive negotiations , the allies have gotten permission from the german command in the Netherlands to send bombers, loaded with food aid, to the starving Dutch population . Tomorrow, the English airforce wil start with dr...

Later this day , 2 Canadian soldiers will go on a recon mission into the town of Zwolle, in the northeastern part of the Netherlands. They are friends and the death of one, Willie Arsenault, will drive the other, Leo Major, on a one man rampage. Quit early on , Willie gets killed in a firefight and ...

On this day, the American soldiers got their first glimps of the horrors of the concentrstion camps, as they liberated ohrdruf. This was a subcamp of buchenwald, one of the oldest and biggest camps within the , original, german borders. As had happened in the other camps, the germans had forced the ...