World War II Netherlands

In addition to the following links, see also the sub-page on the marechaussees.

• 322 Squadron: http://www.europeanaf.org/history/322.htm
• Achterhoeks Museum, 1940-1945: http://www.achterhoeksmuseum1940-1945.nl/
• Advisory Committee on the Assessment of Restitution Application for Items of Cultural Value and the Second World War (Dutch Restitutions Committee): http://www.restitutiecommissie.nl/en
• Air Aces: http://aces.safarikovi.org/victories/netherland-ww2.html.  See also: http://aces.safarikovi.org/victories/victories-netherland-ww2.pdf
• Airfields in WWII from Netherlands Institute for Military History: Airport List (Vliegveldenoverzicht): http://www.defensie.nl/nimh/geschiedenis/vliegvelden/vliegveldoverzicht/.  The following are three of the airfields on the list: Gilze-Rijen: http://www.defensie.nl/nimh/geschiedenis/vliegvelden/vliegveldoverzicht/46190366/gilze_rijen/.  Havelte: http://www.defensie.nl/nimh/geschiedenis/vliegvelden/vliegveldoverzicht/46190374/havelte/.  Twenthe: http://www.defensie.nl/nimh/geschiedenis/vliegvelden/vliegveldoverzicht/46190432/twenthe/.
• Airmen Monument Foundation Giessenlanden WW2 (Stichting Vliegeniersmonument Giessenlanden WO2): http://stichting-vliegeniersmonument-giessenlanden-wo2.nl/English/index.html
• Air War in The Netherlands: http://www.luchtoorlog.net/
• A Liberation Story: Canadian War Veterans Return to The Netherlands, Thanks to Toronto Globe and Mail Donors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Ue_Vt8UkU
• AlleGroningers: http://www.allegroningers.nl/.  Appears to be a valuable genealogical website for Groningen province.
• Alles Over de Tweede Wereldoorlog: http://members.multimania.nl/veldeling/oorbib.htm
• Alles Sal Reg Kom: http://resources2.kb.nl/010420000/pdf/DDD_010420019.pdf
• Amsterdam Resistance Museum (Verzetsmuseum): https://www.verzetsmuseum.org/museum/en/exhibitions/the-netherlands-in-ww2
• ARCHIEVEN.NL: http://www.archieven.nl/nl/.  According to this site, it is supported by 85 participating organizations, contains 100 million descriptions of records, refers to 55 million people, and includes 3000 historical institutions or websites.  See also  http://kranten.kb.nl/.  This website allows you to search for particular words or persons in city archives in The Netherlands.
• Army Museum, Delft: http://www.collectie.legermuseum.nl/strategion/strategion/i000000.html
• Asterddorp: The Forgotten Ghetto: http://www.asterdorp.nl/eng/the-forgotten-ghetto.html
• Autobiography of Carl Kaas:  http://www.bydewey.com/kaasbio.html.  Vol. 2, The War Years, consists of chapters 53-80.  Chapter 68 is on the Dutch Resistance.
• Baarle-Hertog War Memorial: http://www.4en5mei.nl/herinneren/oorlogsmonumenten/monumenten_zoeken/oorlogsmonument/689
• Battle of The Netherlands – May 1940: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNcowUEYfkI
• Biesbosch Museum: http://www.biesboschmuseum.nl/biesboschmuseum/index.php?categorie=Home
• Bloemendaal Memorial (De Eerebegraafplaats te Bloemendaal): http://www.eerebegraafplaatsbloemendaal.eu/.  This is a memorial to 422 members of the Resistance shot by the Germans in the dunes of Bloemendaal.
• Blonde Piet: http://www.blondepiet.nl/
• Broken Dykes: The Netherlands Flooded During WWII in 1944: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZfrfupe9Q
• Ciel de Gloire: http://www.cieldegloire.com/as_39_45_allies_liste1.php#hollande
• Crash ’40-’45: http://www.crash40-45.nl/index_uk.html
• De Bezetting (The Occupation) by Louis de Jong (a TV series): http://www.npogeschiedenis.nl/nieuws/2011/December/Bekijk-De-Bezetting-van-Loe-de-Jong.html.  This documentary is on the NIOD website and the instructions say that Microsoft Silverlight is required to view it.  In spite of downloading Silverlight, I was still unable to view it.
• De geschiedenis en uniformering van No. 2 (Dutch) Troop van No. 10 (Inter Allied Commando): http://www.collectie.legermuseum.nl/sites/strategion/contents/i004543/arma09%20de%20geschiedenis%20en%20uniformering%20van.pdf
• Delpher: http://www.delpher.nl/.  This website claims to make available  “More than one million Dutch books, newspapers, and magazines.”
• De oorlogsjaren 1940-1945 (Enschede in the Second World War): http://www.secondworldwar.nl/enschede/ 
• De razzia van 1-2 oktober 1944:http://www.oktober44.nl/html/de_razzia_van_1-2_oktober_1944.html
• De Slag om de Grebbeberg (The Battle of Grebbeberg): http://www.grebbeberg.nl/.  Contains a great deal of information on the Dutch Army at the time of WWII.
• Devotional Collection of Piet van Weereld.  This contains information from In Memoriam cards for a vast number of people. http://www.pietvanweereld.nl/.
• Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands: http://www.joodsmonument.nl/?lang=en
• Dordrecht 1940-1945: http://d-compu.dyndns.org/1940_1945/
• Dutch Agents 1940-1945 by Frans Kluiters: http://www.nisa-intelligence.nl/PDF-bestanden/KluitersDAGversie2.pdf
• Dutch Citizens Resist Nazi Occupation, 1940-1945: http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/dutch-citizens-resist-nazi-occupation-1940-1945
• Dutch Collaborators, List of: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_Nederlandse_collaborateurs_in_de_Tweede_Wereldoorlog
• Dutch Criminal Proceedings against Germans and Austrians for Crimes Committed in WWII: http://www1.jur.uva.nl/junsv/NED/Angeklagtenfr.htm
• Dutch Documents: http://members.home.nl/hermann/Dutch%20Documents.htm
• Dutch Executed During WWII: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederlanders_ge%C3%ABxecuteerd_tijdens_de_Duitse_bezetting.  See also the biographies of Dutch executed at Camp Vught: http://www.nmkampvught.nl/biografieen/
• Dutch Gratitude – Seventy Years and Counting (from Art Starratt’s World War II Experiences): http://www.awspow.net/9th.html
• Dutch Heroes, Collaborators, and Traitors During World War II – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcrBycXJMY
• Dutch in Wartime: http://www.dutchinwar.com/
• Dutch Jewry: http://www.dutchjewry.org/
• Dutch Underground: http://dutch-underground-1944.blogspot.ca/
• Dutch Underground Press, 1940-1945 (English): http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/news/dutchupe/inedx.html
• Dutch War Cemetery, Orry-la-Ville, France: http://en.tracesofwar.com/article/2899/Dutch-War-Cemetery-Orry-la-Ville.htm
• Englandspiel: https://www.englandspiel.eu/.  To see my list of books related to the Englandspiel, click here.
• Englandspiel records at The National Archives (UK): http://www.englandspiel.eu/2007apr.php?taal=en
• Enny’s Hoeve, the hidden story: http://epaper.bdu.nl/puttenaer/epaperarchive/2006/05-03/epaper/2294610.htm
• Enschede in the Second World War: http://www.secondworldwar.nl/enschede/
• Erelijst van Gevallenen 1940-1945: http://www.erelijst.nl/
• Evacuation List 1 May 1945: http://www.maasniel.nl/Geschiedenis/wo2/evacuatie/Evacuatiekrant.htm
• Forest of Onverzettelijken Memorial: http://www.4en5mei.nl/herinneren/oorlogsmonumenten/monumenten_zoeken/oorlogsmonument/559.  See also http://www.bosderonverzettelijken.nl/.
• Flying Dutchmen, Dutch Aces and Famous Pilots of WW2: http://jpgleize.perso.neuf.fr/aces/ww2hol.htm
• Foundation (Stichting) Oktober 44:  http://www.oktober44.nl/html/stichting_oktober_44_-_engels.html

• Foundation War & Resistance Center Groningen (Stichting Oorlogs- en Verzetsmateriaal Groningen: http://www.ovcg.nl/ and http://www.ovmgeducatief.nl/.
• Fries Verzets Museum, Leeuwarden: http://www.friesverzetsmuseum.nl/
• Gelders Archief: http://www.geldersarchief.nl/.  Gelderland includes the city of Arnhem.  For WWII holdings, gto directly to http://www.geldersarchief.nl/tweede-wereldoorlog.  For the Boree collection, click here.
• German and Austrian War Children in The Netherlands: http://www.dokin.nl/index.htm

• Go2War2: http://www.go2war2.nl/
• Goirle ’40-’45: http://www.goirle40-45.nl/
• Het Oranje Hotel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRMQzLCoqzI&feature=player_embedded
• Himmler visits the NSB headquarters (Himmler bezoekt het NSB-hoofdkwartier (1942): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_TvvrBwM5Q
• History of Radio in The Netherlands, 1919-1945: http://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0910/bhw/bhw1.html#v1
• Holland Food Drop – 8th Air Force Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YIJKdwS2ZY
• Hoogeveen ed de Luchtoorlog: http://members.multimania.nl/veldeling/mes108.htm
• Hueting Family History (about Rud Hueting and Aart Ablas): http://www.hueting.com/.  See also http://www.go2war2.nl/artikel/2236/Gerard-Hueting-%E2%80%9Cwat-deed-je-in-de-oorlog?%94.htm.

• Information Portal to European Sites of Remembrance (Netherlands) (Gedenkstättenportal zu Orten in Europa): http://www.memorialmuseums.org/laender/view/17/Netherlands.
• Interview Nederlandse Waffen-SS veteraan (English subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-iIsPWiOGY
• Janssens, RJA, “Verzet aan het front van Maasniel, 1945. De stunt van vijf ‘Notlazarette.'”: http://www.maasniel.nl/Geschiedenis/wo2/verzet/De%20stunt%20van%20vijf%20Notlazarette.htm
• Jewish Monument Community: http://www.communityjoodsmonument.nl/page/223119/en
• Kamp Wilhelmshaven: http://www.kampwilhelmshaven.nl/
• King’s Medal for Courage in the Cause of Freedom: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Medal_for_Courage_in_the_Cause_of_Freedom
• Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog, 1939-1945 (Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Second World War, 1939-1945): http://loe.niod.knaw.nl/grijswaarden/De-Jong_Koninkrijk_Register-op-de-wetenschappelijke-editie_zw.pdf. This pdf file is a nearly 400 page index to Louis de Jong’s monumental history of The Netherlands in WWII published by the Rijkinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (RIOD, now NIOD) in 1994.
• Liberation of the Dutch City of Amsterdam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQyhnOaoqG8
• Liberation of Amsterdam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9Rk4fStFJQ
• Maaslinie – Mei 1940: http://www.maaslinie-mei1940.nl/
• Making Choices: The Dutch Resistance During World War II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDJciQ0OOuo
• Mauthausen Memorial Enschede: http://en.tracesofwar.com/article/11920/Mauthausen-Memorial-Enschede.htm
• Metzelaar, Peter, Survivor Voices, Holocaust Center for Humanity: http://www.holocaustcenterseattle.org/survivor-voices/peter-metzelaar
• Mokeham Publishing (The Dutch in Wartime Series of Books): http://www.dutchinwar.com/
• Monuments Netherlands: http://www.ditmonument.nl/index.html
• Museum de Bewogen Jaren ’39-’50, Tweede Wereldoorlog en Nederlands-Indië Museum: http://tomlouwers.wix.com/museumdebewogenjaren
• My Confession (the experiences of Rachel (Roos-Hertz) Harel, a Dutch Jewish member of the Resistance): http://www.communityjoodsmonument.nl/page/325723?forum_sta326664#comment-326664.  See also the Wikipedia article about her at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_(Roos-Hertz)_Harel.
• National Monument Kamp Vught: (for English) http://www.nmkampvught.nl/index.php?id=219.  For biographies of the prisoners, go to: http://www.nmkampvught.nl/index.php?id=9.

• Natzweiler: http://www.natzweiler.nl/home
• Neerlandsch Verzetsmonument: http://www.neerlandschverzetsmonument.nl/
• Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD, formerly known as RIOD): http://www.niod.nl/.  NIOD is the primary Dutch WWII archive and is located in Amsterdam.  To go directly to the index to their newspaper clipping (knipsels) file, see: http://www.niod.knaw.nl/sites/niod.nl/files/KnipselcollectieNIOD.pdf.
• Netherlands Institute of Military History: https://www.defensie.nl/english/topics/military-history-collections/contents/documentation.  An example of what is available from the NIMH is the result of this search on the radio service reports: http://www.archieven.nl/nl/zoeken?mivast=0&mizig=210&miadt=2231&micode=408&miview=inv2&miref=gwl&mizk_alle=408%20rapport%20radiodienst#inv3t0.
• Netherlands in World War II: http://www.tweede-wereldoorlog.org/
• Netherlands Knight Orders and Awards (Nederland Ridderorden en Onderscheidingen: http://www.onderscheidingen.nl/
• Netherlands Verzetsgroepen – WWII: http://www.geni.com/projects/Nederlandse-Verzetsgroepen-WWII/25371
• New Zealand’s role in World War II (New Zealand Embassy, The Hague): http://www.nzembassy.com/netherlands/relationship-between-new-zealand-and-netherlands/new-zealand-and-netherlands/new-zealand
• Noordoostpolder (North East Polder) in WWII: http://www.nopinoorlogstijd.nl/luchtoorlog/

• Noordstraat (Tilburg) May 10, 1940: http://noordstraatmei1940.blogspot.com/
• Occupation: Holland (1940-1944), The World at War 1973, narrated by Laurence Olivier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHHH_3b5iqU
• Onderduikers (underdivers): http://www.onderduikers.nl/
• Onderzoeksgids Oorlogsgetroffen WO2, terugkeer, opvang, nasleep (Research Guide concerning Individuals affected by WWII, their return, reception and aftermath.): http://www.oorlogsgetroffenen.nl/  “Deze site biedt een overzicht van archieven van organisaties die betrokken waren bij de terugkeer, opvang en naoorlogse positie van getroffenen van de Tweede Wereldoorlog.” ( This site gives an overview of archives from organizations that were involved in the return, reception and post war situation of those affected by WWII.“)
• Oorlog en vrijheid in Hilvarenbeek: http://oorlogenvrijheidhilvarenbeek.nl/
• Oorlogshandelingen (acts of war), in the Netherlands, 1940-1945: http://members.home.nl/almeloliberated/Oorlogshandelingen.htm
• Oorlogsmusea: http://nl.tracesofwar.com/museum/
• Oorlogsmuseum Overloon (Overloon war museum): http://www.oorlogsmuseum.nl/nl
• Operation Chowhound, 8th Air Force B-17 food drop over Holland, April-May 1945: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aebgjYVgqf4
• Operation Market Garden 2014: http://omg2014.allunited.nl/
• ORT and the Displaced Persons Camps (The Netherlands): http://dpcamps.ort.org/camps/netherlands/
• OVER D’N OORLOG, Udenhout en Biezenmortel tussen bezetting en bevrijding: http://home.planet.nl/~schef564/schoor/webfotos/oorlog.pdf
• Patriotten, Parachutisten, Partizanen en … Paniek, by Heesch, Joop Thuring and Oss, Hans den Brok and other articles: http://www.dewerkendemensoss.nl/pdf/tussentijds2003_2.pdf

• Princess (Prinses) Irene Brigade: http://www.prinsesirenebrigade.nl/
• Pyama House: http://www.bd.nl/regio/oss-uden-veghel-e-o/veghel/amerikaans-bezoek-aan-pyama-house-in-erp-1.4332225.  For more on Pyama House, see the December 2011 issue of the Communicator, the newsletter of the Air Forces Escape and Evasion Society at http://airforceescape.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/AFEES-Newsletter-2011-12-Dec.-Winter-Issue.pdf.
• RedeemTV: https://redeemtv.com/ . Has films, The Reckoning on the Dutch Resistance and Corrie ten Boom, A Faith Undefeated.
• Research on the Resistance in Dordrecht (Onderzoek naar het verzet in Dordrecht): http://www.verzetinenomdordrecht.nl/
• Resistance at a Distance, the Careful Course of Radio Oranje: http://www.narcis.nl/research/RecordID/OND1321626
• Righteous Among the Nations Honored by Yad Vashem by 1 Jan. 20-17 – The Netherlands: http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/pdf-drupal/netherlands.pdf
• Robert Hofman’s website on WWII in The Netherlands: http://www.roberthofman.nl/
• Rosenkrantz, Phil, Letters from Uncle Dave, The 73-Year Journey to Find a Missing-in-Action World War II Paratrooper, http://www.philrosenkrantz.com, 2017.  The author does an amazing job of research leading to the recovery of his uncle’s remains in The Netherlands.
• Second World War Netherlands:http://www.secondworldwar.nl/

• Second World War with a Link to Amsterdam: http://www.dedokwerker.nl/
• Stamboonvragenforum (Pedigree Query Forum) (genealogical forum): http://www.stamboomvragenforum.nl/
• Stichting Oktober 44: http://www.oktober44.nl/html/fotopagina_a.html
• Stichting 1940-1945: http://www.st4045.nl/.  This private foundation is responsible for pensions of members of the Resistance. Letters from persons familiar with an individual’s Resistance activities typically are a part of the file.  My experience is that to obtain copies of a file it is necessary to obtain permission of a family member.  The foundation also appears to be short staffed, leading to delays in obtaining copies.
• Stichting Voorthuizen Liberation 1945: http://www.voorthuizenliberation1945.nl/index.php?page=stichting
• Stories from the Green Tomb (Verhalen uit het Groene Graf), Air War and Baarn: https://groenegraf.blogspot.nl/2015/04/de-luchtoorlog-40-45-en-baarnaars-en.html
• Studie Groep Luchtoorlog – Robert Hofman’s Index to issues of the SGLO Bulletin: http://artikelen.roberthofman.nl/indices-sglo-bulletin/
• “Suffering and Survival: The Netherlands, 1940-1945.” Eight papers delivered at the 1990 Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Dutch-American Studies (AADAS), Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa: http://www.aadas.nl/tags/world-war-ii.
• Survival and Resistance: The Netherlands Under Nazi Occupation (by Linda M. Wolff): http://www2.webster.edu/~woolflm/netherlands.html
• Ter Horst, Johannes, http://www.johannesterhorst.nl/
• The German Invasion of the Netherlands – May 1940: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IIsY664tE4&t=2s
• The German Occupation of the Netherlands from the Dutch – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkPhsNfVyhM
• Tijdreis over 200 jaar topographie (Journey through time in 200 years topography): http://www.topotijdreis.nl/
• Traces of War: http://nl.tracesofwar.com/
• Trouw (Wikipedia article): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trouw
• Tweede Wereldoorlog Collaborateur: http://collaborateur.tweede-wereldoorlog.klup.nl/
• Uitgeverij (Publisher) A. van den Oord: http://www.advandenoord.nl/.  Specializes in the history of Brabant Province in The Netherlands, particularly WWII history.  Go to http://www.advandenoord.nl/biografieen.html for some 500 biographies, including some of members of the Resistance or their family members.
• Underground Resistance 1940-1945 in the municipality Lichtenvoorde (Vereniging voor Oudheidkunde Lichtenvoorde): http://www.oudheidkundelichtenvoorde.nl/node/63
• Urk in Wartime (Urk in Oorlogstijd): http://www.urkinoorlogstijd.nl/home
• Verzet (Resistance) in Dordrecht Bureau (Documentatiegroep J.O.T.): http://www.verzetinenomdordrecht.nl/
• View Brabant, The History of Brabant in Picture and Story (Brabant Bekijken, De geschiedenis van Brabant in beeld en verhaal): http://www.brabantbekijken.nl/
• Vught (Camp): http://www.nmkampvught.nl/.  See also their biographies of Dutch executed at Camp Vught: http://www.nmkampvught.nl/biografieen/
• Wageningen 1940-1945, a digital monument: http://wageningen1940-1945.nl/
• War Over Holland – May 1940: The Dutch Struggle: http://www.waroverholland.nl/
• Wings to Victory: https://www.wingstovictory.nl/Wings_to_Victory
• Who Was Who (Wie Was Wie), English Language Dutch Genealogy Website: https://www.wiewaswie.nl/en/search/
• World War II Dutch War Victims: http://wo2slachtoffers.nl/.  For their database of victims, go to http://wo2slachtoffers.nl/slachtoffers.asp.  The database represents the records digitized to date from 180,000 in the private archive of Jack Kooistra.
• Women of the Dutch Resistance (Nederlandse Verzetsvrouwen): http://www.geni.com/projects/Nederlandse-Verzetsvrouwen-Women-of-the-Dutch-Resistance-1940-1945/25442
• World War II Allied Aircraft Crashes in The Netherlands and North Sea – by Jan Nieuwenhuis: https://www.airwar4045.nl/.
• WWII in the Netherlands: http://erijswijk.blogspot.com/.  This website contains considerable information on WWII Dutch prison camps, Dutch SS, and the Dutch Resistance group NV.
• Zeist Awards (buitenlandse onderscheidingen): Buitenlandse Onderscheidingen
• Zoek tocht van 32 jaar (Search for 32 years, a search for my English father): http://zoektochtvan32jaar.nl/
• Zuidfront Holland: http://www.zuidfront-holland1940.nl/
• Zuyder Zee Air War: http://www.zzairwar.nl/

More Videos

• The German Invasion of the Netherlands – May 1940 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IIsY664tE4
• Canada and the Liberation of the Netherlands – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haAFy-vaRmE
• Battle of Groningen – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSP3uyp8KUI&t=1s
• The Liberation of the Dutch Area of Apeldoorn – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVG_HR6tfgg
• The Liberation of the Dutch Town of Deventer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJaklJjTTEI
• Liberation of Enschede and Hengelo – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-RnUuskNSo
• The Liberation of the Dutch Town of Haarlem – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0QeQRbq47M
• The Liberation of Maastricht and Zuid Limburg – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ZjC0qdbaM&t=341s
• The Liberation of the Dutch City of Rotterdam – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF2trLZVSpY
• The Liberation of the Dutch Town of Nijmegan – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii_rEejWYWI
• The Liberation of the Dutch Town of Venlo – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8LC2GsQ6Bo
• Two Brothers in Arms, The Liberation of Groningen – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdRRLOUaE2U&t=46s
• WW2 The Liberation of Holland – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8AKdHddqOk

Other Sources

Canadian Encyclopedia – Liberation of The Netherlands – https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/liberation-of-holland

Liberation of The Netherlands – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg3DB6P3IPc