On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands. The ‘Battle of the Residence’ aimed to capture the airports and the city and to capture the Queen and the cabinet. Due to fierce resistance, this part of the German attack on the Netherlands failed. However, the euphoria about this victory was short-lived when the Netherlands was occupied after all. Queen Wilhelmina fled with her family and government to England. The Hague, with the Binnenhof and the Plein, became the center of the German administration of the Netherlands. The German Reich Commissioner, Dr. Arthur Seyss Inquart, moved into the Rotterdam lodging house (Plein 4).
The Hague in World War II (The Netherlands)
La Haya en la Segunda Guerra Mundial (Países Bajos)
In 1943 the construction of the German coastal defences: the Atlantic Wall. This tank ditch through large parts of The Hague and Scheveningen left a trail of destruction. The horrors of the war were not spared The Hague either. The second largest Jewish community in the Netherlands was almost completely wiped out, the Sinti and Roma were also deported to Auschwitz and almost all did not return.
Den Haag im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Niederlande)
Гаага во Второй мировой войне (Нидерланды)
England sailors ventured across to England via The Hague. One of the most famous among them ‘Soldier of Orange’, Erik Hazelhoff Roelzema. If you were arrested in the resistance, the Oranjehotel was the place where the Germans passed judgment. Prisoners sentenced to death were executed on the Waalsdorpervlakte.
二战时期的海牙（荷兰）
La Haye pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale (Pays-Bas)
In the autumn of 1944 there was a famine in The Hague. About 2,100 people died of starvation in 1945 alone. In 1944, the Germans also launched a new weapon: the V2, the first unmanned guided ballistic missile. An attempt by the Allies to destroy these V2 rockets failed disastrously and a large-scale bombardment on March 3, 1945, ended up in the residential area of Bezuidenhout.
Den Haag in de Tweede Wereldoorlog (Nederland)
لاهاي في الحرب العالمية الثانية (هولندا)
On Saturday 5 May 1945 the Germans capitulated. But on May 8, the official entry of the Allies into The Hague followed, led by the units of the Royal Dutch Brigade “Princess Irene”, a Dutch army unit that fought with the Allies, which had been included in the First Canadian Corps. Queen Wilhelmina returned to The Hague on 6 July 1945.
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