Five Brothers and a War

1942 Summary

Jul 24 Jul 30

Rostov falls. Start of a ten day air-raid on Hamburg.

Fifth group of 375 joins Vrijwilligers Legioen Nederland at the Eastern Front to help Nazis fight Bolsjewieken; 900 still to follow.

Koningin Wilhelmina on visit to North America addresses Congress.

Aug 06 Aug 07 Aug 10 Aug 15 Aug 19 Sep 06 Sep 07 Sep 09 Sep 12

Americans land at Guadalcanal, the Philippines.

Churchill visits Moscow.

First group of five hostages executed as punishment for railway sabotage in Rotterdam.

Raid on Dieppe. Canadians suffer heavy losses in heroic effort.

More milk products rationed.

Roman-Catholic Jews ordered to Camp Westerbork.

Sauckel wants new quota of 40,000 labor conscripts filled by employers.

Germans reach Stalingrad.

Oct 02

In a surprise move, Nazi-run Dutch Jewish work camps emptied, 14,000 people deported. Rumors surface concerning an impending evacuation order, removing people away from the coastal areas. Roosevelt launches plans for coordinated, Allied attack on Europe, and extradition of war criminals.

Oct 08

Oct 13

Oct 17 Oct 20

More hostages executed “to punish” Dutch resistance.

Dutch churches write Seyß-Inquart protesting, among others, compulsory labor service.

history Oct 25 Nov 03

Montgomery launches desert attack.

Allied victory at El Alamein.

Nov 08

Allies land in North Africa at Casablanca, Oran and Algiers, not resisted by French forces.

Nov 11 Nov 19 Nov 24 Nov 25

Germans take control of Vichy-France. Soviets launch counter-attack at Stalingrad.

Germans confiscate church bells to be recycled for shell casings.

Frits de Zwerver-led resistance groups, specializing in hiding people, forms national organization in meeting in Driebergen.

Nov

Sauckel demands 35,000 conscripts for work in Germany.

Dec 06 Dec 07

Eindhoven bombed, 138 casualties.

Koningin Wilhelmina promises new structure of Kingdom of the Netherlands after “end of hostilities.”

Dec 10

Mussert visits Hitler again. Appointed “leader of the Dutch people.”

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