The Liberation of Amsterdam on 8 May 1945
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- Опубликовано: 9 авг 2023
- Real footage of the arrival of Allied forces in Amsterdam in May 1945 and the jubilation of the Dutch people. Also the dark side of the end of war with traitors and the many victims of the ward.
This video is part of my blogposts that accompany my historical fiction book on Holland in WW2, The Crystal Butterfly. Available on Amazon in print, Ebook and kindle Unlimited.
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We're almost in need of this, again... the world has forgotten...
Alas!
Hope ur wrong ‼️🇨🇦
So do I!!@@Dutchy-1168
Are you really?
I don't want to be right, but with the new LGBTQ Inclusion of Minor Attracted Persons, the liberals in the USA have become the enemy of all that's good on planet Earth..
As a Canadian i'm glad we could help free the Dutch👍What a great piece of history,thanks!
Thank to all Canadians! They are still revered in Holland for the courage they showed! And at such a high price. I have planned a trip to the Groesbeek Cemetery where all the Canadians are commemorated. Also those who were part of the SOE (Secret agents) and dropped in France and caught by the Gestapo and murdered in concentration camps. My new historical fiction series in 2024 will be on the secret agents, so that's an extra reason to visit the cemetery and pay my respects.
@@operationbyron This Canadian thanks you!!
My Dad was fighting with the Allies in the Canadian Army (The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry) at this very moment in history.
As it happens, I am in the midst of researching his war history and trying to trace the details of his path through France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany.
Thank you so much for posting this film.
It is so wonderful for me to see exactly how the Dutch people reacted to their liberation from years of dreadful Nazi cruelty and oppression.
I hope you will be able to find all the the details of your heroic father and also visit the places! Good luck with your research and thank you for commenting!
Mine was too. I don't know if that was his unit but he was from Hamilton.
@@ruffknight9549 Hi there. My Dad was born in Scotland but brought to Canada as a baby. He lived in Toronto and volunteered to go fight in 1940. He enlisted with the Scottish Regiment of Toronto but was transferred to the Hamilton Light Infantry and finished his war service with that regiment.
Mine joined up in 1940 and was infantry but I don't know the unit. He had a "Crusader" emblem on an arm of his jacket.
His brother was older and didn't like the depression era jobs he could get in Canada so he went to England and joined the British army before the war started.
He was sent to India and then to Singapore. Then the Japanese came and he died in their prison camp.
I'm so sorry to hear that!@@ruffknight9549
My parents and grand parents lived through this. My mother was 16 at the time , and had a ride on a motorcycle with a Canadian soldier. I,m 2nd generation Dutch
Thank you so much for sharing! I take it you have been to Holland to see where they lived and what they went through?
My grandfather served in the British army that liberated Belgium and the Netherlands. Our greatest generation.....
I totally agree with you. That’s why I will always write books about WW2.
@@operationbyron he went on to liberate Belsen. Could never talk of what he saw.....
I'm so sorry. Yes that must have been so horrific and they were totally unprepared for that they'd find. And nobody to help them process what they'd seen and experienced. @@user-th5nb3ox1w
@@operationbyron he also cried at the treatment given to young girls in liberated towns. He wanted to stop it but was told it was a civilian matter.
I'm so sorry to hear it @@user-th5nb3ox1w
Young Brit’s and Canadians , my mums cousin was there in the sea Forth highlanders , made it all way to Berlin and was shot by sniper 7 days after the surrender , RIP UNCLE SANDY
Thank you for sharing and I’m so sorry for your family’s loss!
My father was one of the British Commandos who liberated the Dutch island of Walcheren. His young batman was killed and he was injured.
Thank you so much for sharing. My Uncle Tom was an engineer who followed in the wake of the D-Day troops and also was stationed on Zuid-Beveland to help liberate Walcheren. Have you seen The Forgotten Battle. It's a Dutch film on the Battle of The Scheldt? I'm sure it has subtitles. Came out in 2020. www.imdb.com/title/tt10521092/
Incredible piece of important history.
RS. Canada
Thank you so much! Did you have relatives who helped liberate Holland?
I had my Dad ( an new medical doctor who just graduated and from Canada ) in the Netherlands at the end of the war. He liked the Dutch people.
RS. Canada
My parents were children living in the Netherlands during the war and had very clear memories of that time and when the Canadians came to help liberate them.
thank you so much for sharing!
As a Canadian, I cannot believe how many of friends and neighbours are Dutch. We really hit the jackpot with so many lovely people. I even got a godmother out of the deal.
Awww thank you so much for sharing! That is awesome!
Thanks for posting this, it brings tears to my eyes. But I do wonder how anyone was not run over in those crowds!
Yes, it's impressive! And I thought the same thing. I guess they were all excellent drivers.
No-one had though to invent Health and Safety back then, Common Sense was enough. The joy on the faces of the crowds is wonderful to see.@@operationbyron
Look at how slim and trim the people are. Also, properly dressed !!
RS. Canada
Indeed.
Hunger does that!
@@marie-jacqueline2180 - Starving more like it.
'if you win you need not have to explain. If you lose, you shall not be there to explain.'
In world history; the name German is such an offensive name . My family suffered so much in both World wars at the hands of these characterless people...
It is indeed horrible what the Germans did in the first half of the 20th century, but I think the country today is trying very hard to learn from their past.
@@operationbyronhope they dont do such madness in future again.
German was so aggressive in the past. Shame on them.
It's in their DNA cannot ever be trusted again. Germany will turn against the World again.
My Dad was a rear gunner on a Lancaster Bomber. The day the war ended they were dropping 5000 pound parcels of food to the starving people of the Netherlands. His squadron were dropping food to the citizens of the Hague. He said that, though they flew as low as they dared, he thought about a 1000 pounds of food was ruined by the impact on the ground - but the other 4000 pounds were okay. He said you could see the people waving joyously.
Thank you so much for sharing! What a moving story from an eyewitness. You must be so proud of your father.
I am and thankyou.@@operationbyron
Thanks for sharing! Seeing the eagerness of the people makes one wonder how many toes were run over. Best of luck to all of us!
Yes that's the question we all ask ourselves!
This is a wonderful video, thankyou.
you're welcome!
the crowds joy is wonderful to witness. Sadly only a few of one community never returned. And those few that did were presented with unpaid utility bills & could not get their homes back easily or at all ! Its true
yes
Always brief & to the point our Hannah !!@@operationbyron
Terrific score! My dad loved this music!
So do I! I thought it was befitting
My mother experienced this in Haarlem. She told me she stood at the corner of the Schoterweg en the Generaal Cronjéstraat. She is still alive. I do not know if my German grandma watched it also at that place. Ofcourse she lived in Haarlem too. She was not German anymore before the war broke out. But because of her accent, she had a diifcult time right after the war, my aunt told me. I will ask my mother this evening if her mother also watched the liberating troops that day.
Have you shown it to your mother? I will see if I can find one on the liberation of Haarlem but there's very little footage left from the period. Alas.
@@operationbyron i asked my mother yesterday. She went to see the liberating forces with her mother and older brother (88). There were many people in the Generaal Cronjéstraat in Haarlem. During the war, they had to get the foodstamps in the city centre of Haarlem, near the Groote Markt. The public kitchen (gaarkeuken) was in the Union Chocolade fabriek on the Paul Krugerkade on wich street they also lived. She went there with her brother with a pan and when home 200m away, my grand other put it on the gas stove. I asked if there was still gas and my mother said yes. She said they always had food. My grand other once went to Vijfhuizen to get food and on her way back she was stopped by two young German soldiers. They wanted her food. But as a surprise for them, she told them in German ( my grandmother was German) that they get nothing and that they ( the German Army) stole enough already. The two were flabbergasted and let her pass.
My unlce told me last year that somebody stole a bread at the Vermaat bread factory ( building is gone and there is an other building next to the park later) and he was spotted. A shot was fired and the guy dropped the bread and ran into the Scheepersstraat. My uncle has seen this because they lived on that corner. Still during the war, my grandmother visited her brother who was a Feldwebel (Sergeant-major) in the German army. He was stationed in Capelle aan de Ijsel near Rotterdam. I have the pictures from that moment. When he was here again in 1983, he, with my mother and father, visited the people where he was stationed. She told me once that when Hitler was on the radio she shut it of because she did not want to listed to that "shouter".
thank you so much for sharing the memories. Please give my regards to your mother! Greetings from 's-Hertogenbosch@@gerhard6105
@@operationbyron ik heb jouw groeten doorgegeven en ze zei "dank je dank je". Ze hadden ook mensen in huis die ten noorden van de Jan Gijzenkade geëvacueerd waren. Bij die kade was ook een pantsermuur. Daar zijn wel foto's van te vinden.
Dank u wel. Ik heb een tijd in Zandvoort gewoond dus ken Haarlem ook goed. @@gerhard6105
A Friend was in Amsterdam recently And I asked him if he Visited Anne Franks House He told me that he & his wife took a bike trip and went by Anne Franks Home 🇳🇱
Thank you for sharing! But your friends must have bought tickets beforehand because you need to order them 6 weeks in advance. It's that busy.
Great video, need to allow more time to read the captions.
Thank you for your comment and sorry about that!
Good film and soundtrack. Shame about the very intrusive written notes - they'd be much better a little smaller and at the bottom.
Sorry. You're right but now I can't change them anymore.
110 thousand British and Canadian army casualties 6Jun- 1st October bought their freedom...
very true! Freedom was bought at a very high price! We should honour these men forever!
Meanwhile, Australia has virtually single-handedly liberated the Dutch colonies in Asia, and that a was completely thankless task.
So much due thanks didn't go to the right people at the end of the war. That's for sure!
Well not entirely. My mother survived the Japanese concentration camp on Java deep inland from Surabaya. With all respect to the Austrailians who were also defenders of Java and most respectfully from what I learned fought the hardest of all troops and much more than the Dutch. By the end of the war most of Indonesia, like Java and Surabaya, were still under Japanese occupation and actually protected the non Indonesion people from the starting uprising of Indonsian independance fighters especially on West Java. It were under Britisch leadership indian troops, believe the 23rd Indian division, that libereated Java the main island and capital including other parts like Sumatra and the camp on West Java by Gurkhas from Nepal and brought them into safety. Of course the main battle fought against the Japanese was fought in Papua NG so bravely by the Australian troops.
So much different from today, when half of the faces in Amsterdam are African, Middle Eastern or Asian....
We, europeans have never forget yourep veterans america. Honoring them every year in all of europe. Thats why i am so confused america treats their veterans so bad. One day they THINK of them. BLM and Gays get a whole month.
You make a great point. I'm a retired U.S. Navy chief petty officer and, for years in the 1970s and 1980s, we were told not to wear our uniforms in certain areas in Los Angeles (for example, around or near the campus of UCLA in West L.A.). You would have thought that were evil occupiers instead of sailors serving the very people who hated us. Took me almost a year to find a job after finishing college (my Vietnam service -- where I never fired a shot, even when working in the Mekong Delta -- equated with robbing banks, I suppose). Finally, a Korean-American who had grown up in South Korea and suffered personally from that war, gave me my firsts post-college job! Thank you, Mr. Kim... and thank you U.S. Navy for allowing me to serve 26 years in the greatest Navy of them all! (My last active duty away from the U.S. was in Vicenza, Italy in spring 1993 for Operation Deny Flight, where I had the pleasure and honor of serving alongside Brits, Italians, Germans, Dutch and French service people.)
These scenes of Liberation , with Crowds inches away from huge Trucks and Tanks, makes me feel anxious for their safety. There MUST have been casualties ?
I guess so! Certainly because people were so weak after the hunger winter.
On the 8th of May, 1945, Amsterdam had been liberated for several months.
It started on the 5th of May but the victory parades lasted several days. see this link.www.britannica.com/question/When-was-Amsterdam-liberated-in-World-War-II
Holland liberated by the brave Cnadian army the Brtisch army the U.S army the Polich army the Island of Walcheren liberated by the Norvegain and the Belgain commando s, the city s Wessem Ophoven Thorn liberated by the brave Belgain brigade Piron
NO! Can it be?
Is that a Boy Scout at 5:28 on the left side of the screen?
I think so. Hadn't seen him yet!
great to see this footage----My father was there on that day! he clearly remembered the sheer joy the liberated Dutch had.Surprisingly he said that Amsterdam was one of the most dangerous cities the Canadian Army stayed in---apparently the black marketeers were extremely ruthless and killed several Canadians-with robbery the motive.They would also steal supplies out of the army trucks in some narrow streets until the Canadians ambushed them with iron bars as they tried to climb into the moving trucks.I won't mention the other stories that involved a high level of violence between the black marketeers and Canadians---as in the end it was extremely unwise to Fukk with the Canadians.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I had no idea. I don't think that was widely talked about at the time but it makes sense that scarcity and hard times made people ruthless.
my father loved the dutch people-he even brought back a pair of childs wooden shoes that we played with as kids.He was very happy to talk about his time there but seldom would say anything about Normandy or beyond Holland and into Germany .The more vivid tales of close combat with the Germans were only spoken when he was meeting with his war time buddies.I would overhear them speaking of the actual brutality of war and to put it bluntly the Canadians were extremely tough opponents for the Germans.He would not go back to the 50 year anniversary of D-day when I offered to take him. He said there were just too many bad memories and he just could not go.@@operationbyron
thank you so much for sharing. Did you ever visit the places he helped liberate yourself?
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A real shame Operation Market Garden did not work out. I am perplexed that Amsterdam did not get liberated months sooner since the Soviet Army had blasted its way into Berlin and Budapest by this time. Pattons 3rd US army had started ti drive into Austria .Liberation better delayed than unrealized from Nazi tyranny.
Yes, the hunger winter was a horrible ordeal for the west and north of Holland while the south was already liberated.
...WHAT A FEELING TO HAVE FREEDOM AGAIN...ABLE TO FREELY TALK AGAIN.. NEVER TOO LIVE IN FEAR AGAIN....STRONG DUTCH PEOPLE !!
So true!
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such a shame they let the city go to hell in the 80's and 90's ....
I hear a lot of collaboration between Dutch and Germans during war, ya.
Your pro-Nazi propaganda will not change the verdict of history.
Certainly, but don't underestimate the resistance movement, esp. to help Jews hiding. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_resistance
Every time I see videos like this with thousands of men safe while the US & Canadian men had to fight 4 their freedom. Why not them ask myself.
yes, that's a valid question. There were great heroes and heroines this side of the pond. I write about them all the time.
I bet the Dutch birthrate skyrocketed after the allies passed through.
I'm smiling at the comment!
Interesting to be playing Russian music but it fits.
Russian - at that moment in time - were still the Allies. Didn't last long, though, after the war.
@@operationbyron At the National Fourth on the Mall we played Tchaikovski's 1812 Overture (which Tchaikovski did not like) Doesn't mean we like Putin. Just thought they would play Dutch or Canadian patriotic music,
Marvellous to watch - and I bet a few Tommies were offered more than 'kisses' from the Dutch girls!
No doubt about that! :-)
Love the Dutch
They have their nice side. LOL
Yup, they are Dutch.@@operationbyron
The Dutch surrendered so quickly! Four days after Germany attacked. No wonder they were relieved to see the Canadians bail them out.
Oh, come on!!
German are you..?
They were betrayed by their own government in 1940😢
And they shot down 240 German aircraft in 3 may 1940, reducing their effectiveness in future campaigns 😮
Never forget the brave Dutch who resisted the German occupation and helped their fellow countrymen and women to hide. Here are some numbers of resisters. You can say their numbers were small but I rather concentrate of their heroism than think of the collaborators. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_resistance
Hopefully, there soon will be scenes such as these in Ukraine.
Yes, let's pray hope for that!!
🙂🤪
Germans out! Muslims in! Poor Holland.
My dad fought in Holland, a sniper in the 49th Division, the polar bears,
Thank you so much for sharing! You must be so proud of him!
The Dutch were a totally wiling and compliant nation totally in step with Germany...with its very own Waffen SS division.
Liar.
Such an ignorant comment -- sad, really. Yes, there were collaborators in every country occupied by the Germans, but not even closed to "totally willing and compliant." Remember that the Netherlands was a very small, peaceful country before being overrun and occupied by the Nazi Germans for five long and very miserable years.
Please never forget the brave men and women who stood up against oppression. Here is an overview of the Dutch resistance.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_resistance
Willing, not wiling.
@@operationbyron - I know many great Dutch who are now Dutch Canadians and would argue that they were compliant. Several still suffer after effects from starvation. I also knew soldiers who were involved in the liberation including my three cousins, one of whom didn't make it home and my dad who was a Mosquito pilot. The pipe band I played with went to Apeldoorn a few years ago and the reception was amazing and appreciated.