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Liberation of the Netherlands | Narrated by Roméo Dallaire

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  • Опубліковано 30 кві 2020
  • Tuesday, May 5, 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands in the Second World War, and Legion Magazine has released a new web video to mark the event.
    Lieutenant-General The Honourable Roméo Dallaire narrates this instalment of the award-winning web video series Military Moments.
    The Liberation of the Netherlands web video takes viewers back to the German invasion and occupation of Holland, depicting the terrible hunger and hardship inflicted on the Dutch by Nazi Germany and detailing how Allied forces-led by Canada-liberated the country. From September 1944 to April 1945, Canada played a key role in ending the Second World War, as Allied forces closed in on Germany from all sides.
    Narrated by Lieutenant-General (Ret) The Honourable Roméo Dallaire
    Directed & Edited by Adam Tindal
    Written by Don Gillmor
    Graphics & Animation by Sophie Jalbert
    Produced by Jason Duprau, Jennifer McGill, Eric Harris
    Executive Producer Jennifer Morse

КОМЕНТАРІ • 107

  • @wadepo1
    @wadepo1 4 роки тому +106

    We love you Netherlands, brothers and sisters forever. 🇨🇦

    • @assurecodm2934
      @assurecodm2934 3 роки тому +4

      We love you too❤️

    • @kedafu
      @kedafu 2 роки тому

      I want you people to know. My grandparents were there. I am honoring them. By saying this. Stupid Wuhan Flu. We truly are in this together. Calgary-Canada remembers!

    • @anahill2366
      @anahill2366 2 місяці тому

      we love you as well, we are forever grateful 🇳🇱❤️🇨🇦

  • @tomrintjema7654
    @tomrintjema7654 2 роки тому +51

    My parents were there. My Dad remembers Nazi solders walking down the street. They came to Canada in the 1950's. l was born in Canada by the Grace of God. Thank You Canada. Lest We Forget.

    • @kedafu
      @kedafu 2 роки тому

      I want you people to know. My grandparents were there. I am honoring them. By saying this. Stupid Wuhan Flu. We truly are in this together. Calgary-Canada remembers!

  • @zacharytaylor190
    @zacharytaylor190 2 роки тому +18

    A story of heroes, narrated by a hero himself.

  • @jezzman97
    @jezzman97 3 роки тому +53

    If any Canadian would like for someone to lay flowers at a specific grave in the Netherlands, please let me know. I will go there personally to put flowers.
    We may never forget!

    • @VicksWuys
      @VicksWuys 3 роки тому +6

      And so will I!

    • @boxwoodgreen
      @boxwoodgreen 3 роки тому +2

      Do you live near the Holten Canadian War Cemetery ?

    • @boxwoodgreen
      @boxwoodgreen 3 роки тому +3

      @@VicksWuys Do you live near the Holten Canadian War cemetery ? I will post a brief story and data here tonight. With thanks !

    • @boxwoodgreen
      @boxwoodgreen 3 роки тому +8

      April 7th 1945 my late dad, a Captain in the South Saskachewan Regiment took his anti-tank artillery company by boat across the Schipbeek Canal 5km southwest of Holten. After crossing a sniper killed three of his men, and wounded my dad. In one row at Holten rest four of his regimental comrades killed that day. Three of the four were in his company. If you don't mind I will list all four, and if either of you get there at some point it would be a great favour.

    • @jezzman97
      @jezzman97 3 роки тому +6

      @@boxwoodgreen sorry to hear that man. We're grateful for his service.
      I live close enough to pay him a visit if you'd like me to?

  • @edwardabraham2154
    @edwardabraham2154 2 роки тому +26

    My Dad served in the Canadian army as a medic from 1939 to 1945 He was amongst the Canadians that liberated Putten. I wish I had asked him more about his war time service but like many veterans he was reluctant to talk about those times!

    • @lukebeaman1748
      @lukebeaman1748 8 місяців тому +1

      that's really awesome man for him not talking about it always thought of it as imaging seeing the most traumatic and horrible things that will live with you forever and then get asked what happened my great grandfather fought in ww1 and went on a rampage and killed multiple Germans in cold steel after seeing his comrades get killed imagine having to live with yourself after since i found that out about him I don't tend to ask veterans of any war what they saw or did just don't want to bring those bad memories back

    • @peterkralt2478
      @peterkralt2478 11 днів тому

      @@lukebeaman1748 it's a double edged sword' yes talking about it can cause them to be reminded to thinks they don't want to remember but ont he otherhand many do have those memories haunting them anyway and have a feeling they can't talk about it because people who have not experienced it would not understand, but talking can also help to give it a place for yourself. And often you see when they do get older they feel a need to tell their story so that we can learn from it and hopefully not repeat history when they are gone while at the same time having the desire to find some closier for themselves. So being a listening ear can also be a good thing! My entire family the generation before me was traumatized by the war and they never spoke to eachother about what happend and their losses after the war because life itself had to be picked up again and there was not time to reflect. They only started talking to eachother about it when the first ones started to pass away but that conversations they had gave them much more understanding of eachother and gave them more mental comfort. I guess you have to be sensative and feel it if they want to talk about it or not and not trying to push it.

  • @petronilobuan4648
    @petronilobuan4648 2 роки тому +14

    7,600 young Brave Canadians died in the Liberation of the Netherlands who the surviving soldiers described the battle as wet miserable and bloody! After that in commemorations and to Honor their sacrifices the Government of Netherlands yearly sends thousands and thousands of tulips to Canada! Lest we forget on Remembrance Day! K

    • @kedafu
      @kedafu 2 роки тому

      I want you people to know. My grandparents were there. I am honoring them. By saying this. Stupid Wuhan Flu. We truly are in this together. Calgary-Canada remembers!

    • @HRM.H
      @HRM.H Рік тому

      10.000 tulips every year. Some of our royal familiy stayed in Canada during the war.

    • @woodenseagull1899
      @woodenseagull1899 Рік тому +1

      One must not forget Briton holding
      " a beacon of light " for the first two years of the war, and providing a platform for all to secure freedom. It is a pity that the efforts of Britain and its Commonwealth wasn't recognised by the EU when it left the so called European Union(?) 2016.

  • @nachocheezed
    @nachocheezed 4 роки тому +38

    May we all take a moment of silence for those who suffered and died for our freedom we have these days.

    • @kedafu
      @kedafu 2 роки тому

      I want you people to know. My grandparents were there. I am honoring them. By saying this. Stupid Wuhan Flu. We truly are in this together. Calgary-Canada remembers!

    • @kzdin03
      @kzdin03 2 роки тому

      Should show what the Dutch soldiers did to their former colonies after the war.Very interesting comparison I should say.

  • @spacedudey2k
    @spacedudey2k 7 місяців тому +2

    My grandparents lost everything when Rotterdam was bombed. My Grandpa was captured twice by the Germans and marched off to forced labour in Germany - but escaped. My dad was born 4 days after WW2 finished in Europe. They left Holland in 1950 and emigrated to Australia. Thank you to Canada. Lest We Forget ❤

  • @ryandaly9831
    @ryandaly9831 2 роки тому +6

    My grandfather was 17 when he joined the Canadian 1st Division in 1943, he served in the Netherlands up till the end of the war, he was in Amsterdam and was taking a course to be an NCO, he had signed up to serve in the Pacific so he never finished and was sent to New York to train with American arms to serve in Japan. He once told me when he was in Holland, they stopped a running train, the Germans all jumped off and ran. He said there was hundreds of cattle cars attached to the train, so many he couldn't see the end of them, he said there were just slits in them wrapped with barbwire. They broke open the first cattle car and he said it was so packed full of people, the dead could not fall, it was full of men, women and children of all ages, it was going to an extermination camp. His commanding officer yelled at him and other soldiers to keep pushing the Germans back so they could safely get the people out. He put his head in his hands and told me he could still hear all those people moaning and screaming!

  • @gregjames666
    @gregjames666 3 роки тому +23

    I would love a full length, or even better. Multiple episode documentary about the Liberation of Holland narrated by Mr Dallaire.

    • @kedafu
      @kedafu 2 роки тому

      I want you people to know. My grandparents were there. I am honoring them. By saying this. Stupid Wuhan Flu. We truly are in this together. Calgary-Canada remembers!

  • @robvoncken2565
    @robvoncken2565 3 роки тому +24

    we WILL never forget

    • @kedafu
      @kedafu 2 роки тому

      I want you people to know. My grandparents were there. I am honoring them. By saying this. Stupid Wuhan Flu. We truly are in this together. Calgary-Canada remembers!

  • @TheDutchGame
    @TheDutchGame 4 роки тому +53

    Thank you very much Canada!

    • @Mike-oq4oq
      @Mike-oq4oq 3 роки тому +4

      we’d do it aging brotha

    • @kedafu
      @kedafu 2 роки тому

      I want you people to know. My grandparents were there. I am honoring them. By saying this. Stupid Wuhan Flu. We truly are in this together. Calgary-Canada remembers!

    • @dakotaxd3727
      @dakotaxd3727 2 роки тому +1

      No need for thanks Canada is a peace keeper country This is what we proudly do. We thank you for keeping memory of us and for not taking your freedom lightly and giving the world may life saving technology

    • @thegamegang5670
      @thegamegang5670 Рік тому +1

      Also dont forget that cananda werent the only one to liberate us

  • @fumblerooskie
    @fumblerooskie 2 роки тому +5

    This is such a great story. Much love to both the Netherlands and Canada, and all those who served.

  • @vanderquast
    @vanderquast 3 роки тому +14

    We will never forget 🇳🇱❤️🇨🇦

    • @kedafu
      @kedafu 2 роки тому

      I want you people to know. My grandparents were there. I am honoring them. By saying this. Stupid Wuhan Flu. We truly are in this together. Calgary-Canada remembers!

  • @raymondkelch5903
    @raymondkelch5903 4 роки тому +20

    A thousand thanks

    • @kedafu
      @kedafu 2 роки тому

      I want you people to know. My grandparents were there. I am honoring them. By saying this. Stupid Wuhan Flu. We truly are in this together. Calgary-Canada remembers!

  • @cyph3r.427
    @cyph3r.427 Місяць тому +1

    Excellent production, keep them up!

  • @carolancarey992
    @carolancarey992 Рік тому +3

    thank you for posting this enlightening video. God bless all Canadians who served

  • @lolkevandewitte1713
    @lolkevandewitte1713 3 місяці тому +2

    My parents both lived under German occupation as young kids in the northern part of Holland, called Friesland. My mother got a beret from a Canadian soldier after liberation. I still got the badge! It is from the Cape Breton Highlandes. We hold our Canadian liberators in very high regard, for ever.

    • @badgermacleod5588
      @badgermacleod5588 14 днів тому +1

      That was my grandfathers, my father's & my unit. The badge has a mayflower in the center.
      My grandfather brought back a pair of children's clogs from the Netherlands.
      I have a picture of him in the Netherlands, but I have no idea where it was taken ?

    • @lolkevandewitte1713
      @lolkevandewitte1713 5 днів тому

      @@badgermacleod5588 It has a flower with three little flowers on it in the centre. On a banner is written “siol na fear fearail”. I don’t know if your grandfather is still alive, but I would love to bring my gratitude to your grandad (posthumously) on behalf of my family. I’m curious about the pictures.

    • @badgermacleod5588
      @badgermacleod5588 4 дні тому

      The flower is a mayflower, the flower of Cape Breton. The motto means- Breed of manly men.
      The picture I have is of my grandfather driving a universal on an elevated road, but both sides are flooded. There's a small white building beside the column of troops passing.
      If I could send the picture, I would love to know where it may be in the Netherlands.
      Thank you for your kind words, they're greatly appreciated.
      When I go to the cemetery, I'll ve sure to let him know he's not forgotten.
      🇱🇺 & 🇨🇦 are forever friends.
      I believe that bond will only grow stronger over time.
      The Dutch are held in high regard on this island & should you ever visit, you'll be taken to Timmy's, no questions asked. Don't dare think of paying, that's not acceptable.
      *Tim Hortons is a coffee shop with doughnuts & pastries.
      Veel dankbaarheid en respect voor de bevolking van Nederland.
      Cheers from 🇨🇦

  • @firstlast7719
    @firstlast7719 4 роки тому +39

    Dutch by birth, Canadian by choice, I love both countries. Thank you Canada. I will keep alive the memories of my grandparents and my parents. 75 years ago, finally freed from tyranny.

    • @salay30
      @salay30 4 роки тому +2

      First Last me too. They were so grateful to the Canadians.

    • @kedafu
      @kedafu 2 роки тому

      I want you people to know. My grandparents were there. I am honoring them. By saying this. Stupid Wuhan Flu. We truly are in this together. Calgary-Canada remembers!

  • @daniellysohirka4258
    @daniellysohirka4258 7 місяців тому +1

    My great grandfather was in the Canadian army in WWII, he was 30 years old and was stationed in Scotland in 1941 I believe and met my great grandmother and had my grandpa in 1943 while my great grand father was off fighting. He was a mechanic in the Canadian army and met a young Scottish girl and had my grand father. After the war they all came back to central Canada, near Flin Flon, MB and Hudson Bay, SK and also Creighton, SK. My mother actually worked at the Legion, so I got to meet veterans when I was young because kids were allowed in the bars back then on the weekend in Canada. While my mom was working she'd by us some chips and we'd play shuffle board in the afternoon or darts and there would be veterans hanging around. Then they passed a law where kids couldn't be in there because of the VLT's, so you had to be 18, even if you were with your parent.

  • @GerbenDub
    @GerbenDub 4 роки тому +27

    The strongest bond in the world!

    • @oliviercloutier-messier1892
      @oliviercloutier-messier1892 3 роки тому +5

      if its happen again we will be back im french canadian

    • @xanbex8324
      @xanbex8324 2 роки тому +2

      @@oliviercloutier-messier1892 Have you heard about the great hero Private leo Major from Quebec! All kinds of heroics... amazing!

    • @kedafu
      @kedafu 2 роки тому

      I want you people to know. My grandparents were there. I am honoring them. By saying this. Stupid Wuhan Flu. We truly are in this together. Calgary-Canada remembers!

  • @billyrock8305
    @billyrock8305 2 роки тому +12

    🇳🇱 ❤️ 🇨🇦

  • @palmergriffiths1952
    @palmergriffiths1952 2 роки тому +6

    Thanks to the Vets 🇨🇦

    • @kedafu
      @kedafu 2 роки тому

      I want you people to know. My grandparents were there. I am honoring them. By saying this. Stupid Wuhan Flu. We truly are in this together. Calgary-Canada remembers!

  • @PrinceJ20233
    @PrinceJ20233 2 роки тому +8

    Het voelt alsof we weer in zo’n tijd leven

  • @courtbeall7768
    @courtbeall7768 4 місяці тому +1

    Thanks so much

  • @Novilia17
    @Novilia17 3 роки тому +8

    Great story. Wouldn't it be nice that people carry on happier?

    • @kedafu
      @kedafu 2 роки тому

      I want you people to know. My grandparents were there. I am honoring them. By saying this. Stupid Wuhan Flu. We truly are in this together. Calgary-Canada remembers!

  • @ragemontage4483
    @ragemontage4483 3 роки тому +23

    germany: ez clapz.
    *canadian anthem plays*
    Germany: *sees single soldier running towards them* (laughs)
    the one guy: 98 kill streak.

  • @boreal6009
    @boreal6009 4 роки тому +14

    So proud.

  • @christianlebracq1956
    @christianlebracq1956 4 роки тому +10

    Forever Grateful !

    • @kedafu
      @kedafu 2 роки тому

      I want you people to know. My grandparents were there. I am honoring them. By saying this. Stupid Wuhan Flu. We truly are in this together. Calgary-Canada remembers!

  • @jih7055
    @jih7055 4 місяці тому +1

    Canada just have the nicest people thank you canada❤🥺🇳🇱🇨🇦

  • @sophielegault2278
    @sophielegault2278 3 місяці тому +1

    79 years ago today❤️❤️
    5/5/1945

  • @ragemontage4483
    @ragemontage4483 3 роки тому +1

    can we all just take a moment to look at hitler, he looks like the seven year old from "Boss baby."

  • @AJS_77
    @AJS_77 3 роки тому +1

    Pog.

  • @user-db6pt7vr3l
    @user-db6pt7vr3l Місяць тому

    Dallaire turned into a peacenik.

  • @fadlidolphin2422
    @fadlidolphin2422 2 місяці тому

    After Netherland independent liberate, Netherland invasion indonesia, the pain of Indonesia's suffering

  • @cumbaja3456
    @cumbaja3456 Рік тому

    My dad his siblings and parents were kicked out of Holland because his dad was German and had not been become Dutch.
    Born in Holland and dating a Dutch woman(my mother) was not good enough. He even served in the Dutch army but was told they made a mistake.
    In 1941 he was conscripted into the wehrmacht. He had to serve and ended up in Russia behind the front as a mechanic and motor bike rider.
    It took only 3 days of Dutch army resistance and the Dutch government and Dutch/German royalty fled. The Dutch army were still fighting with the German enemy.
    Did the Canadians who liberated Holland pay the ultimate price for the cowardice of the Dutch government?

  • @fadlidolphin2422
    @fadlidolphin2422 2 місяці тому

    forgive yes, but will never forget the Dutch invasion of Indonesia

  • @ConstantineofRome
    @ConstantineofRome 2 роки тому

    Orderd by Hitler to fight to the last man never herd that before

  • @stephenwatson8981
    @stephenwatson8981 Місяць тому

    The Netherlands was liberated and then they immediately tried to re-occupy and re-colonized Indonesia.

  • @joolspirog
    @joolspirog 3 роки тому +6

    As usual, no mention of the Polish. Ask any dutch person, they tend the graves and treat polish with great reverence.

    • @gregjames666
      @gregjames666 3 роки тому +8

      This was a short video by the Canadian Legion Magazine Narrated by a retired Canadian General. Why would you think the poles would be mentioned ? It is not saying that only Canada liberated Holland. We had many brothers in arms. Poles, Czechs, Free French, even the Dutch resistance. But i would agree that a full documentary, about the whole liberation from all perspectives (even the Germans) would be very interesting.

    • @djpd6499
      @djpd6499 3 роки тому +2

      Grow up Jools, many young men died for your freedom. There nationality shouldn’t matter to you.

    • @richardbinkhuysen5224
      @richardbinkhuysen5224 2 роки тому

      @@gregjames666 Thank you for mentioning the Dutch Resistance. Here's actual footage of the Resistance Group my Granddad belonged to. It is filmed by cellphone therefor lots of times out of focus and blurred.
      It's 3 days after the Battle for Woensdrecht ended and they fought independently on Canadian orders for 6 days against the same German Paratroopers that almost wiped out the Canadian Black Watch in 5 hours at Woensdrecht on Oct.13 1944. After that they served under 1.Canadian Army for another 130 days on the front line where they had to face raids of the German equivalent of the British Royal Marines Commandos.
      We didn't know until 1994 and when I asked him if he ever received recognition or medals he replied in shock
      'No, and that's not why we did it'. And that was it. He never wanted to talk about the subject anymore.
      Bare in mind that these guys barely slept for over one week when watching this footage.
      It's just before,during and 5 days after their 6 day fight.
      ua-cam.com/video/Gu6VbpMMvm8/v-deo.html

    • @richardbinkhuysen5224
      @richardbinkhuysen5224 2 роки тому

      And yes, locally we know that part of history.
      What hardly anyone knows is that 1.Polish Armoured Division took over command on the left flank for about 1/4 of the Western Front line in the Netherlands with all kinds of Allied troops under their command.
      All in order to free as much troops of 1.Canadian Army for the line Raamsdonk - Nijmegen - Venlo.
      So technically serving with British 62.Anti-Tank Regt.,RA the Resistance Group was under 1.Polish Command for 63 days from January 10 1945 to March 14 1945

    • @dakotaxd3727
      @dakotaxd3727 2 роки тому

      Yes Canadians and Dutch are very thankful to the polish people for the help of liberation. But this is a video about the Canadian side of it and the Canadians were the ones who brought and made the nazis sign for surrender
      I’m not taking anything away from the help you guys had and trust me being a Canadian I know how it feels for another country taking all the glory of a fight you helped to win (America in everyone war) but as a Canadian we are taught it’s best not to celebrate every victory by telling others but to just be proud and thankful we could help. If you watch many other videos where The people who fought there talk they all say the thanks and celebration they get isn’t why they did it and isn’t needed but it is very nice

  • @joolspirog
    @joolspirog 3 роки тому +9

    How about the true heroes, the Polish 1st armoured division, under General Maczek. Now, there is a story of heroism. Poles are welcomed like they are Dutch, Breda is an open city to Poles.

  • @robertneven7563
    @robertneven7563 10 місяців тому +1

    Holland liberadet by the U S army , the Britch army , the Candian army the Polich, the Island off Walcheren liberadet by the Norvegain and the Belgain commando s, the Dutch city s Wessem Ophoven Thorn liberadet by the Belgain brigade

    • @robertneven7563
      @robertneven7563 10 місяців тому

      Belgain brigade Piron

    • @Tax-Evasion-As-A-Sport
      @Tax-Evasion-As-A-Sport 7 місяців тому

      Are you dyslexic?

    • @billpondmusic
      @billpondmusic 7 місяців тому

      If you're going to comment in English, then you should try and spell more than 25% of the words correctly.

    • @robertoneven2803
      @robertoneven2803 7 місяців тому

      @@billpondmusic de waarheid kwetst hè hollander ??????????????

  • @woodenseagull1899
    @woodenseagull1899 Рік тому +1

    I remember as a boy in England, waving off those brave Canadian soldiers. Germany has never to be forgiven for their terrible cruel actions.Every present living German MUST carry the wicked stain of their forefathers..Its an insult that they run Europe now..!