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

Towards the end of World War II in the Netherlands a group of eight resistance fighters hid in a warehouse of the Twentol Lubricating Oil Industry in Deventer. They wanted to defend one of the bridges over the Overijssel Canal, because they thought the Canadians would use those bridges for their advance. On the night of April 9-10, the resistance fighters got involved in a firefight with German soldiers, causing a fire to break out in the warehouse. Two were killed, one escaped and five were arrested. On April 10, barely an hour before liberation, these five were shot dead behind the slaughterhouse on Snipperlingsdijk. This event is known as the Twentol drama.
History Hustle presents: Shot dead just before liberation - the Twentol drama in Deventer (1945).
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SOURCES
- De bevrijding van Nederland 1944-1945. Oorlog op de flank (Christ Klep en Ben Schoenmaker).
- Liberation so close …… The Twentol drama in Deventer (Herman Sligman).
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The liberation of the Dutch town of Deventer in 1945 in color! De bevrijding van Deventer in 1945.
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