Of all the Wadden islands, Terschelling occupied a particularly important strategic air position. Allied planes en route to targets in Germany flew from the North Sea straight over Terschelling.
Of all the Wadden islands, Terschelling occupied a particularly important strategic air position. Allied planes en route to targets in Germany flew from the North Sea straight over Terschelling.
The defensive position at Kornwerderzand was the only one in Europe that managed to halt the German advance. That story is reason enough to visit the Casemates Museum.
Minister Josef Cohen was a pacifist his entire life. From the pulpit he spoke against the German occupation and Nazism, and that proved fatal.
The air war over the Wadden region cost a lot of lives. Even exercises were not without danger. Discover the impressive stories in the Kweldercentrum and the preserved observation bunker of dummy airport Marrum.
The reclamation of the Linthorst Homanpolder started in 1939. Camp ‘De Slikken’ housed thousands of labourers. After the war, this is where members of the NSB were taken.
Ameland was safer than other parts of the Netherlands. Initially, holidaymakers could still visit the island. In the meantime, planes constantly flew overhead and washed up sea mines were defused.
During the war, the German occupiers came to Vlieland as large force. More than 1,000 Germans and just 500 islanders. The residents were literally trapped on their island.
In the night of 14 to 15 April, a group of 120 SD and SS officers fled towards Zoutkamp to escape falling in the hands of the Canadians. They managed to reach Schiermonnikoog.
During the war, the eight hundred inhabitants of Schiermonnikoog were isolated in their village. The war period was relatively calm, but tensions flared up just before the liberation.
