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The 1945 shooting on Dam square took place during the liberation of Amsterdam on 7 May 1945, in the last days of World War II in Europe. German soldiers fired machine guns into a large crowd gathered on Dam square to celebrate the end of the war, killing over 30 people.
15 April: Zutphen, Leeuwarden, Zoutkamp; 16 April: Groningen (Battle of Groningen) 17 April: Otterlo (Battle of Otterlo) 17 April: Apeldoorn; 5 May: Capitulation of the remaining German forces; 5 May: Amsterdam; 7 May: Utrecht; 9 May: De Klomp; 20 May: Texel (Georgian uprising on Texel) 11 June: Schiermonnikoog
Dam Square is the historic centre of the Dutch national capital of Amsterdam. Until 1914 another national monument stood on the Dam, De Eendracht or popularly Naatje van de Dam, commemorating the Ten Days' Campaign. Shortly after the end of World War II in 1945, a liberty pole was erected on Dam Square. The Dutch government proposed that a ...
3 October to 8 November – Battle of the Scheldt; 4 Oct: Important note from the queen: the second Gerbrandy cabinet must disappear. [3] 6 Oct: The Canadian First Army launches a major offensive against the Germans in West Zeelandic Flanders. [3] 10 Oct: The first company of the Shock Troops departs for the front. [3]
15 Feb: Minister van Heuven Goedhart inaugurates the first Tribunal. [1] 23 Feb: Announcement of the composition, to the extent completed, of the third Gerbrandy cabinet. [1] 24 Feb: Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy urges Eisenhower's Chief of Staff Bedell Smith for a separate offensive for the liberation of the Netherlands north of the major rivers. [2]
Occupied City is a 2023 documentary film directed and produced by Steve McQueen and based on the book Atlas of an Occupied City, Amsterdam 1940–1945 by Bianca Stigter. [1] [10] The film features narration by Melanie Hyams, describing the occupation of the Netherlands by Nazi Germany, juxtaposed against footage of modern-day Amsterdam echoing much of the narration.
The German invasion of the Netherlands (Dutch: Duitse aanval op Nederland), otherwise known as the Battle of the Netherlands (Dutch: Slag om Nederland), was a military campaign, part of Case Yellow (German: Fall Gelb), the Nazi German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands) and France during World War II.
From 14 May 1940 to 5 May 1945, the Netherlands were occupied by Nazi Germany. Permanent exhibits of the museum recreate the atmosphere of the streets of Amsterdam during the German occupation of World War II. Big photographs, old posters, objects, films and sounds from that time, help to recreate the scene.