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    The Waalsdorpervlakte (Dutch pronunciation: [ʋaːlzdɔrpərˈvlɑktə]) is an open place in the dune area "Meijendel" (The Hague, Netherlands), where between...
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    cities and other places as well. Especially notable are those at the Waalsdorpervlakte near The Hague where many Dutch resistance fighters were executed...
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    his 52nd birthday, Mussert was executed by a firing squad on the Waalsdorpervlakte, a site near The Hague, where hundreds of Dutch citizens had been...
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    prisons and concentration camps. 215 prisoners were executed at the Waalsdorpervlakte, the dunes opposite the prison. The complex became a prison again...
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    many members of Dutch resistance were captured and executed on the Waalsdorpervlakte. At the same time, the Atlantikwall was constructed along the coast...
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  • betrayed them. Jan, who resists interrogation, is executed on the Waalsdorpervlakte dunes. Robby's radio is discovered, and he is forced to work for the...
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    since World War II are remembered. The main ceremonies are at the Waalsdorpervlakte near The Hague, the Grebbeberg near Wageningen and Dam Square in Amsterdam...
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    Monument Malta Memorial War Memorial National Monument (Amsterdam) Waalsdorpervlakte Erebegraafplaats Bloemendaal Netherlands American Cemetery Groesbeek...
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    squad Artur Albrecht and Andries Jan Pieters March 21, 1952 SD-commander; torture and executions. Bijzonder Gerechtshof Waalsdorpervlakte Firing squad...
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    Oranjehotel [nl] in Scheveningen. Hellendoorn was executed on 13 March 1941 at Waalsdorpervlakte. Church, Garderen (1939) Dream (1922) "Ward Hellendoorn". RKD (in...
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    men and 21 women died here or on the nearby execution field, the Waalsdorpervlakte (now a national place of remembrance). Rauter also instigated a system...
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  • (Amsterdam 1888 – Kaag 1963) Hellendoorn, Eduard ( Amsterdam 1912 – Waalsdorpervlakte 1941) Herwijnen, Jan van (Delft 1889 – Bergen 1965) Heyboer, Anton...
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    December 1944 at Mauthausen: Toon van Steen Op 8 March 1945 on the Waalsdorpervlakte: Willem Frederik Hoogewerff, Richard Barmé. "Inventaris van de archieven...
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    betray his friends. On the following day, he was executed on the Waalsdorpervlakte by a German firing squad. He was 22 years old. His body was discovered...
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    was executed, together with Albrecht, before a firing squad at the Waalsdorpervlakte on 21 March 1952, near The Hague. They were the last persons to be...
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    in clandestine activities were executed on 13 January 1944 on the Waalsdorpervlakte. Postma was subject to enhanced interrogation but never exposed any...
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