Farm Sleutels
Farm Sleutels
On Mad Tuesday, September 5, 1944, an unprecedented liberation fever spread across the South of the Netherlands. Reports that the end of the war was approaching also provoked reactions that had an adverse effect on the festive mood. For example, a reprisal by a person in hiding on a fleeing SS man resulted in eight German soldiers coming to seek redress. The Berkvens brothers were arrested and beaten. The Germans also threatened to burn the entire hamlet. Something that ultimately only happened with the Sleutels farm: the hideout of the person in hiding.
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- Text: TracesOfWar
- Photos: Martin Damen
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- Cycling route Death Valley De Peel - Field cross out of gratitude (Gevlocht) (#25) - Heusden
Monument
Cemetery
- Dutch War Grave R.C. Cemetery Liessel - Liessel
- Dutch War Graves Roman Catholic Cemetery Helenaveen - Helenaveen
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- Peel-Raamstelling - S-Casemate nr. 2 - Meijel
- Peel-Raamstelling - Foxhole North - Meijel
Crash site
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