A former soldier has revealed how a Nazi general spared him from the firing squad in World War Two. Roy Wooldridge, 95, from Hendy, Carmarthenshire, was seized while on a mission in France just before D-Day and taken to Erwin Rommel. The Royal Engineer was brought before Rommel and asked if he needed anything. He… Read more »
During the occupation by the German army between 1940-45, about 10.000 Dutch women gave birth to a child of a German soldier. The most very young mothers were mostly abused, even by there own family and the children were pested for many years in the after war period. However, recent figures based on records at the… Read more »
Remembrance Day Netherlands, annually on 4th May in the Netherlands all civilians and members of the armed forces of the Kingdom of the Netherlands who have died in wars of peacekeeping missions since the world war II are commemorated. Each year the ceremonies are held in Amsterdam on the Dam Square. This ceremony is always… Read more »
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