Executed Shortly Before Liberation - The Twentol Tragedy in Deventer (1945)

[@HistoryHustle]

The Liberation of the FIRST Dutch Town (Mesch): kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4rJq2yFgqySatk The LAST Major City Battle in the Netherlands (Groningen): kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYSzZKivpZ1-i6s

[@terryhoath1983]

Despite your qualification, you nonetheless threw mud at "Operation Market Garden". My Dad was on Operation Market Garden and he talked about the great leap forward. He said that since he landed in Normandy in June 1944, they had not covered so much ground in such a short period of time as they did on Operation Market Garden. The Belgian bar owner with tears running down his cheeks who gave my Dad and his mates some spades and told them to dig in the back garden to reveal hundreds and hundreds of bottles of spirits of all types that he had buried there in 1940 was overjoyed to be liberated FAR SOONER than would have been the case without Operation Market Garden as were the many Belgian girls who threw flowers onto my Dad's truck.. The Bridge at Arnhem was not taken but all the others were. Yes, the business with the radios etc was a fiasco but, at the time, V2 rockets were falling on South-Eastern Britain ..... THERE WAS A WAR ON ..... Montgomery KNEW that Arnhem was a long shot but if the Americans had been doing it, they wouldn't have even tried. "the War's end was postponed" you say. I tell you that the end of the War came quicker because of Operation Market Garden .... not as quick as may have been the case if the bridge at Arnhem had been taken but far quicker than without trying. The War would have been over before it started if Beneš had not betrayed the Czechoslovak Army and Air Force in 1938 and if the Dutch Government had not hidden behind their beloved neutrality but armed the people properly as the Swiss did, Hitler might have ground his teeth and spat but might have thought twice about an invasion. If the Dutch Government had not surrendered so quickly in 1940, the war would have been over far more quickly as well. At least, the Belgians made a good fight of it for some time,

[@marcoskehl]

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[@Blitz9H]

Thank you for remembering and telling us about these moments in history. Lest we forget. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@tonnywildweasel8138]

A very tragic story indeed. Good that you tell these Stefan 👍 We must never forget. Greets from Grun' 🇳🇱, TW.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for watching again TW!

[@memirandawong]

"...In a war you grow up quickly..." I will never forget that line.

[@geraldvanbaalen4894]

I know about this story. My dad's cousin

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@jamesbodnarchuk3322]

My dad was in the Netherlands during the war 🇨🇦army sapper

[@simonh6371]

Wehrmacht Pioniertruppen you mean?

[@HistoryHustle]

Guess with the Canadians.

[@simonh6371]

@@HistoryHustle Was als grapje bedoeld.

[@itisonlyme1]

@@simonh6371 not funny

[@itisonlyme1]

Bless him! My family was liberated in May 45. My mum danced with Canadian soldiers, there were Canadian soldiers in the house.

[@mammuchan8923]

Oh man, stories like this are tough to hear

[@gibraltersteamboatco888]

Very good, Thanks. BZ. Was this still part of Schöngarth's Woeste Hoeve reprisal?

[@davyjagt146]

Is there already a video about the Venlo incident?

[@turkishwumao]

Mijn stad ❣

[@HistoryHustle]

Mooie stad.

[@mnijhoff]

Ja, was dan ff bakkie komen doen, Stefan.

[@Vergeten-oorlogsverhalen]

Weer mooi gedaan. Nice don👍🏼

[@bigsarge2085]

😢

[@HistoryHustle]

Tragic yes.

[@DT-wp4hk]

Why is it that those resistance suddenly act brave the moment the Germans were leaving? Piggy backed. Learned something new😂

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@geraldvanbaalen4894]

Probably because that would be the highest possibility of when the bridge would be blown up?

[@DT-wp4hk]

@@geraldvanbaalen4894 are you related?

[@noobtubephails]

Verhoeven was niet zo slim.

[@HistoryHustle]

Medelijden nam de overhand.

[@marcoskehl]

Bedankt dat je ons deze geschiedenis vertelt, Stefan. Obrigado! 🇳🇱ヽ(͡◕ ͜ʖ ͡◕)ﾉ 🇧🇷

[@davidkulczyk678]

that is a crazy story.... was the commander ever prosecuted?

[@HistoryHustle]

Don't think so.

[@geraldvanbaalen4894]

I don't think the commander was ever identified, thus not prosecuted

[@sthrich635]

Dude could literally just take a day or two off and wait for the Allies - They weren't going to lose the war suddenly because a bridge got blown up or something.

[@stephanottawa7890]

How did the Dutch feel about being bombed by the Allies? Did they see it as part of the cost of being liberated?

[@ArjanSchaeffer1973]

Very good video as always! I have one question which maybe someone here knows a bit more about. It is the bombing of the city Nijmegen. This happened on the 22nd of February 1944. At school, i always learned that this was done by mistake. They accidentally bombed a Dutch city. The plan was to bomb a German city as usual. But I am doubting about this. Was it really a mistake? Maybe someone knows more about this topic?