The Allies Are Coming... Or Are They?
September 5, 1944: Radio Oranje announces liberation. The Ordedienst prepares, but it takes weeks. The post at De Vloeiwiede is betrayed and stormed by the Germans.
Radio Oranje, September 5, 1944. With the message that “the hour of liberation has struck,” Prime Minister Gerbrandy sets the wheels of the Ordedienst in the Netherlands in motion. The Ordedienst, part of the Dutch resistance, was established to help the liberators. Now that the Allied troops are apparently approaching so quickly, the Ordedienst prepares itself.
Unfortunately, the eagerly awaited liberation takes not hours or days, but even weeks to arrive. With each passing day, the risk of discovery grows for the sixteen temporary residents (radio operators, people in hiding, and a security group) of De Vloeiwiede. Fleeing German soldiers cross the area and the Feldendarmerie patrols. The post is eventually betrayed by Lodewijk de Coster, a Fleming working for the Germans. A German assault on the house follows.
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