You're welcome. There hasn't been much else being going on for a while in the Netherlands but the allies have crossed the Rhine in the eastern parts of the country and are now heading up North. Avoiding the the bigger city's in the Western parts they move along the Eastern border and try to cut of t...

Something happend today which could be called a miracle. American troops capture the Ludendorff bridge across the Rhine at Remagen, practically undamaged. The germans had undermined it but , apart from one small section, it failed to explode. This was an enormous stroke of luck for the allies. No lo...

On the end of Januari 1945, several Swedish ships had arrived in the Port of Delfzijl. This is a port in the upper North-east of the Netherlands. These ships where carrying wheat and their arrivel was a result of the negociations between the Allies, The Red Cross and the german command. Unfortunally...

About a week ago , the battle for the Heurtgen forrest ended. The germans where defeated. However, this was achived with high costs, around 57.000 American troops where killed and it had taken months. The german army lost about 15.000 men. Before the rest retreated they had opened the Ruhr-dam and t...

After a period of , relative, little progress the allied forces are moving up North-Eastwards into the Netherlands again. The german forces had been beaten back out of the Ardennes forrest and all over the frontlines the allies are moving towards the Meusse river in the North-East and the Rhine in t...

Today, 25 years ago , people in the Netherlands were again evacuated due to high waters. It was the first time it had to be done after the great floods of 1953. However , there was a big difference, the flood wasn't coming from the West , it came from the East. Rain and melt waters had driven the wa...

Over the complete frontline the germam army is steadely beaten back. On December 13th the American army took Malmedy and found the body's of the murdered POW's. Their body's where , mostly, well preserved due to the cold weather and snow. After the war , many members of Kampfgruppe Peiper where brou...

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The battle of the Bulg has turned, clear sky's enable allied fighter/ bombers to attack the german forces in droves, the tracks in the snow guiding them to hidden armour and troops. The siege of Bastogne was broken by American forces under Patton. From now on the german army was back into the defenc...