D-Day: On June 6, 1944 it came at last. What all occupied Europe had long been waiting and praying for: the Allied invasion. In London Pieter Gerbrandy, the man who become Prime Minister, made a speech to the Dutch people on Radio Oranje. And for his part, Anton Mussert, Leider of the Dutch people, sent a telegram to Adolph Hitler, Fuehrer of the German people, reaffirming his eternal loyalty. Intense fighting would last for many weeks in …
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…for some four weeks. After D-Day the Dutch resistance movement was growing ever bolder. Some in the Resistance were taking now to singling out prominent Nazis and their Dutch sympathizers for assassination. Nothing exists in a vacuum; as Dutch resistance become stronger, German counter-measures became ever more brutal. For every German murdered several Dutchmen would be picked up shot in his place. But such measures only stiffened the resolve of the resistance all the mo