{"id":60,"date":"2009-05-12T12:17:49","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T16:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=60"},"modified":"2014-07-18T14:10:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T14:10:09","slug":"liberation-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/liberation-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberation Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bevrijdingsdag <\/strong>is Liberation Day in the Netherlands. It marks the liberation of the Netherlands from Nazi control. The Netherlands was liberated by Canadian troops, and now it&#8217;s a national holiday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bevrijdingsdag<\/strong> came about under Operation Market Garden.\u00a0When I first learned this in class, I thought it was a grand flea market sale, but it was\u00a0actually a tactical strategy to defeat the Nazis.<\/p>\n<p>Operation Market Garden was one of the largest airborne missions of all time. Some people see this Operation as a success, while others view it as a failure. I&#8217;ve heard of first hand accounts of Dutch citizens in the Arnhem area starve in the <strong>Hongerwinter<\/strong> or Hungerwinter. My maternal grandmother told me of stories about eating tulips when things really got tough.<\/p>\n<p>There are several museums dedicated to Operation Market Garden. There&#8217;s the National Liberation Museum at <strong>Groesbeek<\/strong>, Wings of Liberation Museum Park in <strong>Schijndel<\/strong>, and the Airborne Museum <strong>Hartestein<\/strong> in <strong>Oosterbeek<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a bunch of monuments that honor the men who died in Operation Market Garden. There&#8217;s a monument in Driel dedicated to the Polish soldiers who participated in Operation Market Garden. A picture of it is provided next to this paragraph. There&#8217;s also a famous monument for the Dutch in Sint-Oedenrode. There&#8217;s a picture of it on the bottom of the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bevrijdingsdag is Liberation Day in the Netherlands. It marks the liberation of the Netherlands from Nazi control. The Netherlands was liberated by Canadian troops, and now it&#8217;s a national holiday. Bevrijdingsdag came about under Operation Market Garden.\u00a0When I first learned this in class, I thought it was a grand flea market sale, but it was\u00a0actually&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/liberation-day\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3590],"tags":[3643],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-dutch-language","tag-liberation-day"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2723,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}