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Documentary / radio play on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem.
A veteran of The Battle of Arnhem is taking a young woman (his daughter or niece perhaps) to some of the most important battlesites. Together they contemplate the events that took place in september 1944.
They visit Hotel Hartenstein (former headquarters of the British commander General-Major R.E. Urquhart), Doorwerth Castle (which in 1964 housed the Airborne Museum), Oosterbeek Church, and the Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery.
In alternation with these scenes a voice-over recounts the outlines of the battle.
The program ends with a quote from Field Marshal Montgomery commemorating the courage of the Dutch civilians: ‘I would like to pay a tribute to the heroism of the Dutch people in this area. With the battle raging about them, and their homes being destroyed, they had only one thought, and that was to give assistance to the British soldiers who were fighting the common enemy’.
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lw …. The program came to do through the transcription department of Radio Nederland, in Hilversum Holland.
Een klankbeeld ter gelegenheid van het feit dat 20 jaar geleden de Slag om Arnhem plaatsvond. Een veteraan neemt een jonge vrouw (zijn docher of nicht misschien) mee naar de belangrijkste plaatsen van de slag. Samen denken zij terug aan de gebeurtenissen, die hier in september 1944 plaatsvonden.
Tweede Wereldoorlog, Second World War, WO II, Slag om Arnhem, Battle of Arnhem, Operation Market Garden, Arnhem, The Netherlands, Nederland,
