Articles on Holland (Nederland) in TIME (1923 – )
Report on Nazi invasion of The Netherlands. The Dutch were forced back to their secondary Grebbe Line.
On the evening of May 9 last week, Adolf Hitler went to a cinema in Berlin, a sentimental musical film like The Student Prince. His No. 2 man, Field Marshal Hermann Goring, and Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels attended the premiere of Cavour, a play on which Benito Mussolini, onetime…
27 Nov 1939
Wilhelmina works hard to get her country safely through World War II: An overview of her work and her country including the colony.
Last week the London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post presented what it described as the official German Army plans to invade The Netherlands on Nov.11, plus an “official” explanation of why that invasion did not come off as planned.
The alleged German plan was to attack The Netherlands first, Belgium… View large cover
The beloved Queen Wilhelmina, Europe’s longest-reigning sovereign, observed two anniversaries: her 58th birthday and the completion of her 40th year on the throne.
Formerly the gloomy, box-shaped, 283-year-old Royal Palace in Amsterdam was without electric lights, central heating and had but two bathtubs, both without running water. Here, as required by the Constitution. Her Majesty, Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Queen of The Netherlands. Princess of Orange-Nassau and Duchess of Mecklenburg, has grudgingly spent…