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Originally Posted by Ted Alright lads:
In 1944 a little village in Holland suffered severly because of German revenge.
a) What was the name of the village?
2) Why was it punished and how? |
The name of the village was Putten.
After a Dutch resistance attack on a German staff car in which 1 German officer was killed,
the Germans burned down a number of buildings in the village and sent 600 men of the village to concentration camps. Only around 50 survived, to return after the war.