Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sturdy Dutch inhabitants of Walcheren Island did not want to leave their flooded homes. The grey sea had snaked through Walcheren's bomb-breached dikes, coiled around hamlets and towns, drowned their handsome black-&-white Friesian Holland cattle. It had also brought salty death to orchards, pastures, grain fields. But most farmers and burghers shook their heads when Allied amphibious ducks chugged up to take them away...
...drafty and the Holland cold bit deep in Hut 2-B. The two frail old ladies from Germany-Internees No. 00001989 and No. 00001990-huddled in their double bed, shivered as they peered through a windowpane at the internment camp where 6,000 German civilians were held...
Boots and Massage. In contrast to U.S forces, the British have no trench-foot problem, even though they have been actually wading through Holland. Their stout workmen-type boots and gum boots have turned out to be drier than anything the U.S. has produced. But the most important factor is that British soldiers are required to keep their boots waxed, to massage their feet with oil and change frequently to dry socks...
Ordeal and Rebirth. Yet when the war came, the legends of resistance seeping out of occupied countries were starred with names of heroic men of God. Niemöller, Faulhaber and Galen in Germany itself, Hlond in Poland, De Jong in Holland, Damaskinos* in Greece and the aged Patriarch Gavrilo Dozich in Yugoslavia, all stood firm against the Nazis. With them stood a host of unnamed churchmen, like the 1,300 priests slaughtered in Poland, the priest and the pastor in Czechoslovakia who together faced a firing squad avenging the death of Heydrich the Hangman, and the French priest active...
Born of hope in oppression, grown to greatness in suffering, the Christian Church found new strength and new unity in its new ordeal. In Holland, where Catholics and Protestants had been at odds since the Reformation, old differences were forgotten in a common defiance of the Nazis, a common defense of the Jews. The Church in occupied Europe has taken a new lease on life because it has fought not only for its own preservation but for all freedom. Churches grown listless and smug under state support turned suddenly about in the state's default and themselves assumed...