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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221225-03
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1940s
Country: Holland,Netherlands,USA
Location: Holland
TC Begins: 09:38:29
TC Ends: 09:47:07
Duration: 00:08:38
Holland Carries On Part 2 of 2 Dutch men arrive in US for pilot training; air to air shots fighter planes on mission over Holland - aerials bombing Nazi armament factories. Underground newspapers inc. Der Oranjekert. Dutch resistance agent on nighttime sabotage mission - train explodes staged. 09:39:57 High shots across reclaimed land flooded after Nazi destruction of dikes. 04Sep44 Good shots Allied paratroops land in Holland, troops under fire from German rear guard. Soldiers help civilians escape burning homes. Liberated Einhoven, tanks thru streets past waving crowds. Long Live the Queen posters erected - collaborators marched through streets at gunpoint. 01Nov44 British ships fire on Nazi-held island blocking entrance to Antwerp. Royal Marines thru bombed streets - German troops surrender. Flooded farming towns, civilians evacuate w/ possessions in boats, girl cycles thru floodwater past windmill, man uses chairs as stilts. Complete destruction in flattened village & salvaging possessions. Displaced civilians living in church. 09:44:32 Queen Wilhelmina views destruction on return to Netherlands. Civilians wave as she arrives in Middleburg - gothic cathedral bombed by Germans. Stills of starving children. Empty shop windows. Kids fed at soup kitchen. Bodies of murdered Resistance fighters in open coffins. Reconstruction programme underway using primitive equipment. Hand driven piles. The End. WWII; Nazi Occupation; Invasion; Malnutrition; Starvation; Hardship; War Atrocities; European Royalty; Geography;