This issue contains 4 sections.
News - Second World War
State Secretary for Health, Welfare and Sport announces support for International Holocaust Memorial Day
State Secretary for Health, Welfare and Sport Marlies Veldhuijzen van Zanten has pledged to provide additional funding for the ...
Defence organisation recovers military casualties of war
In the week of 5-11 September, in the town of Groesbeek in the Dutch province of Gelderland, the Recovery and Identification ...
British motorcyclists escorted past WWII route
During the first weekend of June, motorcyclists of 11 Airmobile Brigade and the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee escorted a team of ...
Defence commemorates the fallen since the Second World War
On 4 May, the Dutch Defence organisation commemorated all soldiers and civilians of the Kingdom of the Netherlands who were killed ...
Navy destroys highly explosive heavyweight
Early this morning (April 14), the Dutch minehunter HNLMS Willemstad detected and detonated an extremely heavy German influence ...
Historical parachute jump by Dutch and American paratroops
Last week, 50 paratroopers of 11 Airmobile Brigade made a parachute jump over the Ginkelse Heide together with 50 Americans from ...
Verhagen calls for international cooperation during Japan visit
The Netherlands believes it is very important that countries like Japan take an active approach to international cooperation, said ...
Verhagen: Japan’s war victims must never be forgotten
‘The hunger, disease, violence, sexual abuse and brutal treatment of Dutch civilian internees and prisoners-of-war during the ...
Verhagen speaks at Margraten memorial service
‘We should never forget our common past,’ said foreign minister Maxime Verhagen at the annual Memorial Day ceremony at the US ...
Verhagen discusses sex slaves with Japanese ambassador
The Japanese ambassador in The Hague reassured foreign minister Maxime Verhagen this morning, that the Japanese government does ...