70 YEARS AGO-HOLLAND LIBERATED!!!!


Johnny around 9_crop

MAY 5, 1945!

Finally! Finally free from those nasty Nazis. Five years of deprivation, torture, devastation, cruelty, and genocide. How can one man make this happen all by himself? How do people like Hitler come to life and how is it possible they can sweep to power with so many believing in such a monster? How did he become that monster? How did he self-destruct? Read a very interesting book that just came out

HITLER’S LAST DAY–MINUTE BY MINUTE–BY JONATHAN MAYO & EMMA CRAIGIE.

 Available in your bookstore and on Amazon.com.

Here follow some of my memories of World War II: As a kid between 4-9 years old, I remember it from start to finish. Nothing more than war leaves a mark on your life.

 vliegtuig afgeschoten  Hongerwinter 1

Bombers and hunger

 hongerwinter 2

Threatening skies

Hongersnood in 1944

Death on the streets and scrambling for food

Anne Frank

Anne Frank

Eisenhower

Eisenhower!

Normandy

Normandy in 1944, but it took one very long year before Holland was free and allied tanks rolled in.

adolf hitler

 

Adolf Hitler Kills himself and his nearest collaborators do the same. Read it in HITLER’S LAST DAY.

duitse aftocht duitsers met paard en wagen

Nazis leaving. Some of these horses must have been my grandfather’s warmbloods.

Allied forces with German captives NSBers

Allied tanks with German captives.

Collaborators and traitors rounded up.

Truck with allied liberators bevrijding 3

 The brave fighters come in.

The people jubilate.

Lancaster_met_voedsel Lancaster met voedsel 2

Food drops for us who suffered a long cold winter during 1944-45. Can you imagine the relief?

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Bevrijding 1 bevrijding 4

Festivities all over the country.

Mainly thanks to the USA. That we not forget. That we remain VIGILANT! Or it will happen again.