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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.
Striking and unobtrusive fortifications in the landscape of TerschellingThe 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.
Where the German advance falteredMinister Josef Cohen was a pacifist his entire life. From the pulpit he spoke against the German occupation and Nazism, and that proved fatal.
True beliefThe 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.
Dummy airport MarrumThe 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.
Camp 'De Slikken'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.
Nearly a care-free holiday on Ameland during the warDuring 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.
Trapped on the smallest Wadden island in the NetherlandsIn 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.
SD officers escape to SchiermonnikoogDuring 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.
Strained relations before the liberation of Schiermonnikoog
