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Start of the war in the Netherlands

1940-05-09 · Roermond · Netherlands

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The war started in the Neteherlands 

This memorial is revealed on 10 May 2010. It commemorates the Dutch soldiers who fout at the Maas-line at Roermond, on 10 May 1940.

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