Category: War & Resistance
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Interactive route ‘Dwars door Barlo’ brings wartime stories to life
A 19-kilometre journey past eleven historical locations.
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Lordship of Bredevoort
This page is still ‘under construction’…
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People in hiding
During WW2, one in five residents of Aalten was in hiding.
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Aalten in wartime
Summary from ‘Aalten in Wartime’ by J.G. ter Horst.
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Property from camps returned after six years
Package from Neuengamme returns belongings to owner (1950).
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Bredevoort, Pledged City of the House of Orange
Bredevoort has been a pledged city of the House of Orange since 1627
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Returned from the Dutch East Indies
Two cousins meet on the boat after not having seen each other for 13 years.
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H.M. the Queen pays an unexpected visit to the Achterhoek
Her Majesty remained for more than half an hour in the home of “Oome Jan”.
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Emergency Hospital
At the end of World War II, an emergency hospital was established in Aalten.
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Heavy sentences for looting
Report of a session of the Military Court in Aalten, 1945.
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Letter to the editor: the liberation
De Graafschapper, 18 May 1945
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A letter from distant lands
In 1945, the Houwers family received a letter from a French person in hiding.
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War Victims in Aalten, World War II
List of names from the Aaltensche Courant, 4 May 1945
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Dutch National Battalion
Founded in Aalten during the liberation of the Achterhoek.
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Playing into death
In memory of the three children who died while playing in 1945.
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The Liberation of Aalten
On 30 March 1945, Aalten was liberated by British Grenadier and Irish Guards.
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Bombardment of Dijkstraat
March 24, 1945 bombs fell over Aalten. With terrible consequences.
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Bombardment of Barlo
On 30 March 1945, an air-raid shelter in Barlo was hit by a bomb.
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The Bark
An uninhabited farm in De Heurne became a center of resistance in 1944.
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Bombardment of Kruisstraat
On 24 February 1945, bombs fell in the Kruisstraat, with disastrous consequences.