D-Day 2
D-Day 2
D-Day: On June 6, 1944 it came at last. What all occupied Europe had long been
waiting and praying for: the Allied invasion. In London Pieter Gerbrandy, the man who
become Prime Minister, made a speech to the Dutch people on Radio Oranje. And for
his part, Anton Mussert, Leider of the Dutch people, sent a telegram to Adolph Hitler,
Fuehrer of the German people, reaffirming his eternal loyalty. Intense fighting would last
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weeks.
After D-Day the Dutch resistance movement was growing ever bolder. Some in the
Resistance were taking now to singling out prominent Nazis and their Dutch
sympathizers for assassination. Nothing exists in a vacuum; as Dutch resistance
become stronger, German counter-measures became ever more brutal. For every
German murdered several Dutchmen would be picked up shot in his place. But such
measures only stiffened the resolve of the resistance all the mo
