Overview for Evacuation

De Atlantikwall zag er niet overal hetzelfde uit. Hoeveel en welke verdedigingswerken werden aangelegd hing af van het …

In de duinen aan het strand zie je ze nog liggen: de bunkers uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog. De massieve betonnen bouwwerken …

Initially, the militarised zone had twelve gateways and anyone could pass in and out. This changed in September 1943 when …

Before the war, a visit to Scheveningen’s original ‘Queen Wilhelmina Pier’ was a popular outing.

Scheveningen was largely abandoned. The only civilians allowed to live there, or to enter the area, were those needed to …

Resistance groups in The Hague experienced great organisational difficulties. As well as being hounded by …

The first evacuations took place in Scheveningen. The operation began with houses near the beach and harbour in June 1942. …

It was the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS that decided when the evacuation of each section of the city was to start and how …

The Schellart family had a shop selling office supplies and toys in Valeriusstraat (Duinoord). They rented both the shop and …

From the summer of 1941, Hitler moved ever more troops to fight the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front. At the same time, …