Articles on Holland (Nederland) in TIME (1923 – )
Allied airmen reported Germans were moving troops eastward in The Netherlands. This might foretell a Nazi evacuation of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, The Hague.
As usual when victory is in the air. Winston Churchill was as jolly and prankish as a boy on a picnic. Touring the conquered Siegfried Line, the Prime Minister gaily flicked ashes on the futile, grey-green, concrete dragon’s teeth which Hitler had set up to keep tanks out of the…
In the NL., German forces crossed the Maas River at two points, established one bridgehead north of Venlo (later wiped out by British counterattack), another near Geertruidenberg.
French civilians streamed out of Strasbourg, back into the Vosges Mountains. There was talk of evacuating the city. The Germans might be coming back.
For ten days Allied reconnaissance planes had been reporting troop move ments in the Palatinate (southwestern corner of the German Rhineland), so the attack could not…
In The Netherlands a Dutch Nazi was knifed while attending another Nazi’s funeral.
isorder flared dangerously in Hitler’s New Order last week. In Norway, most persistent trouble-maker for the German conquerors, spontaneous outbursts against Nazi rule broke out from Oslo to Narvik.
Disquiet in Oslo reached a crest when 2,000 workers in the Akers shipbuilding yards went on strike. They resented Nazi plundering…