Word: ijssel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disappeared before the common wartime enemy. Belgians now seldom speak of the Dutch as rich, unimaginative "Kaaskoppen" (cheese-heads); Dutch now less often deprecate "the French touch" of levity and gaiety in Belgian characters. The Germans gave the two countries a lesson in unity by quickly breaking the Dutch Ijssel and Grebbe Lines and the Belgian "Little Maginot" Line (demonstrating the folly of independent, uncoordinated defenses...
...difficulty believing these high figures, concluded they must have included deaths anticipated if the fighting had gone on. When it stopped, the Dutch, who had given up the northeast half of their country with little resistance and retired in good order from their first line of defense along the Ijssel River, still held their Grebbe Line (second defense) and Holland Water Lines (third). They had mopped up most of the parachutists in and around Amsterdam. They still had The Hague, Leiden, Utrecht, Den Helder. They still held, with British and French, the island province of Zeeland in the rivers...
...Holland, but as the hours wore on, it was not help enough. The French feared they would have to pull out of Breda before they had arrived there in force. On Sunday the Dutch were forced back to their secondary Grebbe Line, after being blasted out of their Ijssel Line by German field pieces fired pointblank into their blockhouses. This week the Germans broke through the Grebbe Line, drove to the sea near Rotterdam, cutting The Netherlands in two. Crown Princess Juliana fled to London with her husband, Prince Bernhard and their children. Princess Irene, aged nine months, traveled...