Tragedy Betrayal In The Dutch Resistance 1st Edition Samuel De Korte by Samuel De Korte 9781526784995, 1526784998 instant download after payment.

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...
Samuel de Korte is a graduate student of the Cultural History of Modern Europe at Utrecht University, and in his spare time enjoys researching or writing articles about popular history. He is a descendant of Wilhelmus van Dijk, which formed the basis for this project. Through the use of interviews, his historical training, archive research and other historical material, he has managed to recover a great deal about the men involved.

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