Posted on 05/27/2018 6:04:18 AM PDT by C19fan
After four humiliating years of occupation, the German retreat through the Netherlands towards the Reich caused an unusual degree of jubilation, disdain and harsh laughter among Dutch civilians. On September 4, 1944, the day after the British Guards Armoured Division drove into Brussels to wild rejoicing, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands had broadcast to her occupied country from London: ‘Compatriots – You know our liberation is coming.’ Three months after D-Day, the formerly invincible Wehrmacht, which had crushed the Netherlands in the summer of 1940, had been reduced to stealing bicycles to escape the Allied advance. Vehicles requisitioned for the German exodus included Red Cross ambulances packed with soldiers and their weapons, and even the odd omnibus.
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I know Squadron. Get emails from them all the time.
As for the Soviets in WWII, you’ll find posters tight here saying the same thing. Their forces did engage the bulk of the German army. Of course had there been no western front they’d have faced a much more formidable enemy.
Well if the Soviets not been allies with Hitler in order to carve up Poland beforehand, maybe they wouldn’t have been in the position to lose so many later on.
Stalin killing all his best officers before the war didn’t help any.
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