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Tragedy & Betrayal in the Dutch Resistance (Hardcover)
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Tragedy & Betrayal in the Dutch Resistance (Hardcover)
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List price R608
Loot Price R509
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You Save R99 (16%)
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On the night of 31 March 1945, five men were woken and taken from
their cells in the city of Zwolle, in The Netherlands. They were
put in a vehicle and escorted by the German occupying forces to a
street nearby, where all five were lined up and executed. The
corpses were left behind as the Germans left the scene. Whether by
accident or betrayal, these men had fallen in to the clutches of
the _Sicherheitsdienst_, the Nazi intelligence service. Although
the liberation was at hand (Zwolle would be freed less than two
weeks later), these men did not live to see it. This book not only
reveals what the men had done and the reasons behind their
execution, but also the experiences of their wives, who had tried
to obtain their husbands' release, while other women were deported
to concentration camps. Attention is also paid to the execution and
the process leading up to it. Combining interviews with
descendants, eyewitnesses, acquaintances, archival research,
historical books and newspapers, family member and history student
Samuel de Korte recreates an image of the executed men on that
fateful morning and the families they left behind. Using a number
of rare and well-known photographs, the condemned are portrayed as
resistance fighters as well as fathers and husbands. The book
examines not only the consequences of the men and their actions,
but also the grief of the women who were left behind.
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