{"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":"

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’s a national holiday.<\/p>\n

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

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’ve heard of first hand accounts of Dutch citizens in the Arnhem area starve in the Hongerwinter<\/strong> or Hungerwinter. My maternal grandmother told me of stories about eating tulips when things really got tough.<\/p>\n

There are several museums dedicated to Operation Market Garden. There’s the National Liberation Museum at Groesbeek<\/strong>, Wings of Liberation Museum Park in Schijndel<\/strong>, and the Airborne Museum Hartestein<\/strong> in Oosterbeek<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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There’s also a bunch of monuments that honor the men who died in Operation Market Garden. There’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’s also a famous monument for the Dutch in Sint-Oedenrode. There’s a picture of it on the bottom of the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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’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…<\/p>\n

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