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The main responsibility for the construction of the Atlantic Wall lay with the German Todt Organisation but most of the …

The Oostduinpark was the site of the German Marine Seeziel-Batterie Scheveningen Nord:

From D-Day onwards, Allied troops landed on the French coast, breaching the Atlantic Wall. This led to a major reduction of …

From the summer of 1941, Hitler moved ever more troops to fight the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front. At the same time, …

In 1944 Nazi Germany hoped to turn the tide of war by introducing a new weapon: the V2 rocket. Mobile rocket launchers were …

The Schellart family had a shop selling office supplies and toys in Valeriusstraat (Duinoord). They rented both the shop and …

Before the war, a visit to Scheveningen’s original ‘Queen Wilhelmina Pier’ was a popular outing.

From the summer of 1941, Hitler moved ever more troops to fight the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front. At the same time, …

Resistance groups in The Hague experienced great organisational difficulties. As well as being hounded by …

On 7 May 1945, architect W.M. Dudok was hired by the municipality to draw up a general plan for the post-war reconstruction …

Especially by the final year of the war, everything was in short supply. Adults and even children set out with home-made …

During the Second World War, the Germans built a miniature tracked vehicle capable of carrying enough explosives to blow up …

The first evacuations took place in Scheveningen. The operation began with houses near the beach and harbour in June 1942. …

It was the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS that decided when the evacuation of each section of the city was to start and how …

The Reichskommissar (head) of the Nazi-occupied Netherlands between 1940 and 1945 was an Austrian lawyer called Arthur …

The city was bisected by a water-filled anti-tank ditch with an open field of fire in the direction of the city centre. To …

Hitler used his best troops to fight in Russia. The Dutch section of the Atlantic Wall was manned by soldiers who were …

Initially, the militarised zone had twelve gateways and anyone could pass in and out. This changed in September 1943 when …

Scheveningen was largely abandoned. The only civilians allowed to live there, or to enter the area, were those needed to …

Het verzet in Den Haag had grote moeite om zich goed te organiseren. Naast de felle jacht op verzetsleden door politie en …

De Atlantikwall zag er niet overal hetzelfde uit. Hoeveel en welke verdedigingswerken werden aangelegd hing af van het …

In the course of 1940/41, the Germans requisitioned all the best boats in the Scheveningen fishing fleet. Only a small …

The Peace Palace remained open as a tourist attraction for most of the war but the work of the Permanent Court of Internatio…

During the war, Scheveningen was flanked by two large bunker complexes equipped with anti-aircraft guns and artillery to …

The main responsibility for the construction of the Atlantic Wall lay with the German Todt Organisation but most of the …