The Liberation of the FIRST Dutch Town (Mesch): th-cam.com/video/MYfz9OMG_4w/w-d-xo.html The LAST Major City Battle in the Netherlands (Groningen): th-cam.com/video/wSP3uyp8KUI/w-d-xo.html
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My grandfather was in the hospital "Dekkerswald" near Groesbeek. He told while he was laying in the hospital for "T.B.C" (Tuberculoses) while the fighting was erupting all around the hospital. The disturbing thing according to my grandpa was that British soldiers were looking for cover in the hospital due to the fierce German attack This unfortunally resulted in a German grenade that was thrown trough the window to flush them out. But nobody was killed or seriously wounded. One patient did get a piece of shrapnel in his butt cheek. One of the infuriated doctors who wanted to protect the sick civillians, finally managed to make the English soldiers go back outside to fight the Germans while he struck them with a chamberpot. True story.
Just this August I visited the battlefields of Market Garden in Nijmegen and Arnhem. Was really interesting to see them myself after reading about the battle.
My father - 17 yo at the time - lived on the Keizer Karelplein at the foot of the bridge. If you look around there now, you see only office buildings, no dwellings. That is because the Germans set fire to them all in the evening of 17 September. My father and his parents and brothers all fled and lost contact in the dark and the confusion of battle. My father fell in with some American paratroopers. He spent a couple of days with them, sheltering in a ditch to escape German artillery fire. Later on he worked for them as an interpreter, because spoke Dutch, German and English.
My grandad was 21st Anti tank regt RA in Guards Armoured Division. His regt along with Irish Guards laid covering smoke and fire as those extremely brave 82nd lads crossed the river.
The 82nd Airborne Div used “Sionshof” as a commandpost. From there they marched on to the citycentre of Nijmegen. A brave cook from Sionshof (hotel) went alongside the allied forces to guide them to the citycentre. Sadly they ended up in a fierce firefight and the cook got shot dead in front of restaurant “Groenewoud”.
Hele interessante video! Bij dat bombardement van Nijmegen had ik twijfels of dit per ongeluk gegaan was, zoals dat me geleerd is op school, en ze het steeds in de media blijven herhalen. 1944 waren ze (de geallieerde luchtmacht) al zeer professioneel in het vinden van de doelwitten. Ook met radio signalen zodat er blind gevlogen kon worden als ik goed geïnformeerd ben. Daarom klinkt het onlogisch dat zo'n grote fout gemaakt zou worden als een verkeerde stad te bombarderen. Kan gebeuren, doch zeer onwaarschijnlijk.
Er werden veel fouten gemaakt, Nijmegen, Enschede b.v. Ook in Duitsland werden de doelen nogal eens gemist. Ook op D day misten de bommen soms grote doelen, terwijl er maanden op was gestudeerd en geoefend. Ook Para's kwamen vaak totaal verkeerd terecht. De Britse bommenwerpers werkten bv met een lichtmast op een bootje om de goede koers te vinden. Fouten waren aan de orde van de dag.
Het was geen ongeluk! Het oorspronkelijke doel was de Messerschmidt fabrieken in Bochum maar door bewolking in dat deel van Duitsland kon dat doel en het eventuele secundary target in Hessen niet gebombardeerd worden, de techniek kon ze wel globaal op een doel brengen maar niet exact en dus werden bij bewolking boven de target area bombardementen gecancelled en dus zoals gebruikelijk in zulke situaties brak de formatie op in kleinere formaties die dan targets of oppertunity mochten aanvallen op de terug weg, zoals bruggen en treinstations, om zo niet met op scherp staande bommen en al te hoeven landen in Engeland. Omdat de hoofddoelen toch niet gebombardeerd zouden worden was het bij houden van de exacte locatie ook niet meer belangrijk en was het pikken van een doel aan de bombardiers gebaseerd op zicht! En dus wisten ze niet maar misschien ook wel dat ze al weer boven Nederland waren toen ze hun bommen los lieten boven centraal station Nijmwegen en de brug over de ijsel bij Deventer op hun terug weg! Ja Deventer en nog een aantal plekken waren ook gebombardeerd in diezelfde mislukte aanval op Bochum! In totaal zijn 43 nederlandse steden in grotere of kleinere mate gebombardeerd door de geallieerden en Rotterdam zelfs 4 keer omdat ze de grootste haven in de wereld niet konden raken! 800 dodelijke slachtoffers in Nijmwegen is 1 van de voorzichtigste schattingen en eht excacte aantal kan veel hoger liggen omdat de /Duiters eigenlijk helemaal geen onderneming gedaan hebben om de slachtoffers te bergen, hun hebben gewoon een schatting van 1100 gedaan gebaseerd op hoeveel huizenblokken er niet meer waren en hoeveel mensen daar geregistreerd stonden en dat houd dus geen rekening met hoeveel mensen daar bij andere inwoonde omdat hun huizen al eerder in de oorlog gebombardeerd waren of omdat ze geevacueerd waren van elders en ook niet met hoeveel er daar ondergedoken waren voor de duiters, 5% van de bevolking zat ondergedoken dus statistisch gezien woonde daar 1100 inwoners plus 55 onderduikers en dan nog een onbekend aantal vluchtelingen. Het aantal van 800 is die 1100 die de duiters adminsteerde in de verdwenen huizenblokken op basis van het bevolkingsregister min diegene daarvan die na de oorlog toch nog in leven bleken te zijn en het bombardement overleefd hadden maar zonder de aantallen onderduikers en vluchtelingen.
One major incorrect detail is that the heroic paratroopers of 504th did not capture the northern side of both bridges, just the rail-bridge. Its a common error but its disappointing to see this myth still being perpetuated. The British Grenadier Guards completed their tank crossing of the road bridge at 1830 hours on the 20th, driving the Germans off it, a 5th tank (Lord Carrington) crossed half an hour later and sat at the northern end, with the first paratroopers of the 504th who had crossed the river arriving there at 1915 hours. They were heroic but they did not capture the northern end as the film depicts. The timings I stated are confirmed by the official divisional records of both 30 Corps and 82nd Division.
@ I guess it sounds petty but to the Grenadier Guards, many stormed out when they went to watch the film for the first time, as they were so infuriated at the inaccuracy.
Gavin, the American, screwed up, he failed to take the bridge at Nijmegen, seeing it as a secondary matter to protecting his Eastern flank from a phantom German tank army!
The good old super accurate Norden bombsight does it again. Was the railway station on the otherside of the river from the town as today? What were the airforce casualties?
Over clear sky of an American military test site the Norden bombsight were very accurate. Dutch weather is more challenging. Check basic principles of mechanical computers for more info.
@gonono1966 If you can't see the target, you do not carpet bomb a city. The tests were at low level. The American airforce flew at over 25 000 feet to avoid flak. Impossible to hit anything. Taking out moving trains with Thunderbolts and no flak much better! How does bombing a Dutch city break the will of the German population? The Norden bombsight was examined by the Germans before the war and judged to be nothing special. You need to read up on the subject. American airmen probably died in the attack as well. The US airforce generals have questions to answer.
There was also an attempt by the Germans to sabotage the waalbridge by a mine to be delivered by a one man submarine. The wreckage of the submarine has been recovered from the Waal river and is on display at Fort Pannerden near Nijmegen.
My Uncle John was in "I" Co. 504th PIR was in the first wave of the Waal river crossing. It was really a suicide mission. 26 boats left the shore and I believe only 11 boats made it. The crossing was supposed to be at 8am but actually didn't happen until 3:15pm as the canvas boats got held up on the way there. 260 men in "H" & "I" companies left the shore and 46 died. Many were wounded.
No mention of the fact the US troops focussed to much protecting the Groesbeek Heights they only sent a small group to conquer The bridge. Which was supposed yo be the primary target. Therefore the bridge was inly conquered on the 20th. No disrespect to American troops, this was on Gavin
Rather than flying in Browning's entire HQ in on the first day they would have been better off using those 36 Horsa gliders to send in another battalion of combat troops to take the bridge and the heights. The 82nd wouldn't have been able to hold the north end of the bridge against the 10th SS Panzer Division, but they probably could have held the south end from the hotel where he was filming at the start of the video and kept them out of the town.
@@antalgiesbers2392 Gavin could have taken the northern end but he would have needed at least a battalion sent there on the 17th - but he was too fixated with Groesbeek Heights.
I thought the latest insight is that not occupying the bridges in Nijmegen in the hours after the landings when there were barely any Germans at the bridges but just securing the Groesberg heights and nothing more by Gavin is the root cause of the failure of Monty's folly? The relatively rapid reaction of the Germans by placing reinforcements at the bridge and the inner city in Nijmegen caused many days of delay for the ground forces of the Garden operation and ultimately the destruction of the Arnhem bridge head. So not sure if you can speak of a success at Nijmegen.
The British never captured the Rhine bridge in Arnhem, only the Northern approach. The contact with John Frost (after taking the northern approach of the bridge) and the rest of the para's never happened. Germans moved in reinforcements very quickly by rail. Unlike on D day communication lines and railways were operational in the Arnhem sector. Many say that having landings on two separate days and having to secure those landing/dropping grounds lead to not using the full force of the aitborne going into Arnhem immediately.
@@pieterstroobach We ? The succes of Market Garden depends on many of the 26 bridges in the plan being captured (mainly Son, Grave, Nijmegen, Maas waal kanaal and Arnhem) . The Arnhem bridge was never fully captured. Germans could easily use trains around Arnhem and manged to move troop to Nijmegen and in the area between Arnhem and Nijmegen (Mannen Eiland). Some of the root causes of not taking he Arnhem bridge are: 1. 2 day landings and thus holding men back to secure landing zones 2. slow movement of troops to the bridges 3. no destruction of railroads and commmunication lines in the Arnhem area 4. poor intelligense about the Panzer Units 5. long way from landing zones to the bridge and difficult terrain once the germains are mor or less organised 6. crossing the Nijmegen bridge was too late to relieve the British that were having big problems almost directly after dropping
Audrey Hepburn, who was in Netherlands during the war and witnessed Market Garden once remarked "Don't discount anything said about the Germans, it really was that bad."
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The shockwave of the bombs launched my grandma in the air..She often told stories about the german occupation. As a Nijmegenaar i often walk the shores of the Waal and still find bullets fired from both sides.
I still can’t believe the 82nd regiment came from the wrong direction to capture the bridge instead of going across flat open ground they decided to go through a city and get bugged down
The problem of using flat open ground is that you are a sitting duck once dicovered from the high grounds. Kopse Hof plateau, Valkhof and anything between. Your only chance is to move extremely fast and take the high grounds as well. Some say that the kopse Hof plateau housed a 88mm FLAK which is a sensible place to put it.
The operation that had to be mounted because the Americans decided to make the bridge their secondary effort. Strange decision in an operation all about the rapid capture of key bridges.
Allied bombing accuracy was a bad joke. The Nordon bombsight was advertised by its developers as being able to drop a bomb into a pickle barrel from 20,000 feet. Actual post war bomb damage assessment (BDA) showed that it was incapable of dropping more than 5% of bombs dropped within a 250 foot radius circle of the target. That's why things like those described in this post happened.
Concerning the bombing, many did believe that 'bomber' Harris did lost the plot in his campaign and believes of the role of the bombers. Much good was done and like a bell curve sadly it also had its percentage of basic failures.
Plein '44 was een mooi plein, met een standbeeld als eerbetoon aan die periode. En wat doet de gemeente Nijmegen? Hup weg ermee, want we moeten meer verdienen aan een flat en parkeergarage. Totaal respectloos. / Plein '44 was a beautiful square, with a statue as a tribute to that period. And what does the municipality of Nijmegen do? Get rid of it, because we have to earn more from an apartment building and parking garage. Totally disrespectful.
why do you show a photoshopped waalbrug in shambles?.. never happened! also: maaswaalkanaal has 5 bridges, not 4. 3 got blown by the germans before the allies could capture 'em.. and what about the feb.22nd 1944 bombing being deliberate, targeting the railwaystation? with incendiaries (brisant)?? I am a NMGN citizen for over 31 years now, moved here when I was 15, and I never heard that before. feb 22nd was a cloudy day (the airial photos prove that) and the 14 Liberator bombers got desoriented because of that.. that all said and your name containing "Hustle" -in my eyes does not make you very trustworthy..
I'm sorry I can not see anything successful about this failed operation, The hunger winter (German retaliation on the Dutch population) being one of the results of it, my then teenage father nearly died of starvation and too many of my people did.
Imagine you are Dutch and you live in Eindhoven, Grave, or Nijmegen. The situation is tough but you are free. The hard times were for the west of the Netherlands where about 20.000 died of starvation or malnutrion. In general Market Garden is considered a failure because is did not manage to achieve its main objective: a fast way into Germany.
The Liberation of the FIRST Dutch Town (Mesch):
th-cam.com/video/MYfz9OMG_4w/w-d-xo.html
The LAST Major City Battle in the Netherlands (Groningen):
th-cam.com/video/wSP3uyp8KUI/w-d-xo.html
bedankt dat je een vete video maakte over mijn stad :)
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Thanks for making this video about my hometown! Its so cool to see this subject being talked about :)
Sir I am proud to say I have learned additional facts concerning Operation Market Garden. Kudos! I humbly await your next video lecture.
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Ah, Nimma my old hometown! The story of the Crossing of the Waal is sadly relatively unknown, let alone the battle for the city itself, cheers!
@@theShermanator thanks for your reply.
Again an excellent item Stefan. Keep up the good work old chap!
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My Dad, born 1925, was in the British army at the Battle of Nijmegen but I never knew anything about it. I do now. Thank you.
Thanks for replying.
My grandfather was in the hospital "Dekkerswald" near Groesbeek.
He told while he was laying in the hospital for "T.B.C" (Tuberculoses) while the fighting was erupting all around the hospital.
The disturbing thing according to my grandpa was that British soldiers were looking for cover in the hospital due to the fierce German attack
This unfortunally resulted in a German grenade that was thrown trough the window to flush them out.
But nobody was killed or seriously wounded.
One patient did get a piece of shrapnel in his butt cheek.
One of the infuriated doctors who wanted to protect the sick civillians, finally managed to make the English soldiers go back outside to fight the Germans while he struck them with a chamberpot.
True story.
Just this August I visited the battlefields of Market Garden in Nijmegen and Arnhem. Was really interesting to see them myself after reading about the battle.
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My father - 17 yo at the time - lived on the Keizer Karelplein at the foot of the bridge. If you look around there now, you see only office buildings, no dwellings. That is because the Germans set fire to them all in the evening of 17 September. My father and his parents and brothers all fled and lost contact in the dark and the confusion of battle. My father fell in with some American paratroopers. He spent a couple of days with them, sheltering in a ditch to escape German artillery fire. Later on he worked for them as an interpreter, because spoke Dutch, German and English.
Mighty interesting! Thanks 👍
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@@tonnywildweasel8138 Merry Christmas 🎄👍
I was there in the early 1990's with the Canadian contingent for the annual march. Beautiful area, wonderful people, and so much history
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My grandad was 21st Anti tank regt RA in Guards Armoured Division. His regt along with Irish Guards laid covering smoke and fire as those extremely brave 82nd lads crossed the river.
My Uncle John was one of those lads crossing the river. "I" Company 504th PIR. Survived luckily.
Fascinating, since I was born in Nijmegen in August, 1944
Incredible to read! Glad you didn't get hurt. Guess your family told you many stories about it.
Bedankt
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Their was a dutch resistance member that tainted her executers by saying that "i shoot better" i can't remember her name
Like they did care.,
They didn't
Hannie Schaft.
Amazing point of history Stefan ❤ Merry Christmas 🎄
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The 82nd Airborne Div used “Sionshof” as a commandpost. From there they marched on to the citycentre of Nijmegen.
A brave cook from Sionshof (hotel) went alongside the allied forces to guide them to the citycentre. Sadly they ended up in a fierce firefight and the cook got shot dead in front of restaurant “Groenewoud”.
Wonderful historical coverage episode shared by an amazing (History Hustle).introduced by Sir Stefan 🙏
@@mohammedsaysrashid3587 many thanks as always.
Hele interessante video!
Bij dat bombardement van Nijmegen had ik twijfels of dit per ongeluk gegaan was, zoals dat me geleerd is op school, en ze het steeds in de media blijven herhalen.
1944 waren ze (de geallieerde luchtmacht) al zeer professioneel in het vinden van de doelwitten.
Ook met radio signalen zodat er blind gevlogen kon worden als ik goed geïnformeerd ben.
Daarom klinkt het onlogisch dat zo'n grote fout gemaakt zou worden als een verkeerde stad te bombarderen.
Kan gebeuren, doch zeer onwaarschijnlijk.
Zelfs op D Day slaagden ze er in om kolossale afweer eenheden te missen. Zowel uit de lucht als vanuit het water. Helemaal niet onlogisch.
Er werden veel fouten gemaakt, Nijmegen, Enschede b.v. Ook in Duitsland werden de doelen nogal eens gemist. Ook op D day misten de bommen soms grote doelen, terwijl er maanden op was gestudeerd en geoefend. Ook Para's kwamen vaak totaal verkeerd terecht. De Britse bommenwerpers werkten bv met een lichtmast op een bootje om de goede koers te vinden. Fouten waren aan de orde van de dag.
Het was geen ongeluk! Het oorspronkelijke doel was de Messerschmidt fabrieken in Bochum maar door bewolking in dat deel van Duitsland kon dat doel en het eventuele secundary target in Hessen niet gebombardeerd worden, de techniek kon ze wel globaal op een doel brengen maar niet exact en dus werden bij bewolking boven de target area bombardementen gecancelled en dus zoals gebruikelijk in zulke situaties brak de formatie op in kleinere formaties die dan targets of oppertunity mochten aanvallen op de terug weg, zoals bruggen en treinstations, om zo niet met op scherp staande bommen en al te hoeven landen in Engeland.
Omdat de hoofddoelen toch niet gebombardeerd zouden worden was het bij houden van de exacte locatie ook niet meer belangrijk en was het pikken van een doel aan de bombardiers gebaseerd op zicht! En dus wisten ze niet maar misschien ook wel dat ze al weer boven Nederland waren toen ze hun bommen los lieten boven centraal station Nijmwegen en de brug over de ijsel bij Deventer op hun terug weg! Ja Deventer en nog een aantal plekken waren ook gebombardeerd in diezelfde mislukte aanval op Bochum! In totaal zijn 43 nederlandse steden in grotere of kleinere mate gebombardeerd door de geallieerden en Rotterdam zelfs 4 keer omdat ze de grootste haven in de wereld niet konden raken! 800 dodelijke slachtoffers in Nijmwegen is 1 van de voorzichtigste schattingen en eht excacte aantal kan veel hoger liggen omdat de /Duiters eigenlijk helemaal geen onderneming gedaan hebben om de slachtoffers te bergen, hun hebben gewoon een schatting van 1100 gedaan gebaseerd op hoeveel huizenblokken er niet meer waren en hoeveel mensen daar geregistreerd stonden en dat houd dus geen rekening met hoeveel mensen daar bij andere inwoonde omdat hun huizen al eerder in de oorlog gebombardeerd waren of omdat ze geevacueerd waren van elders en ook niet met hoeveel er daar ondergedoken waren voor de duiters, 5% van de bevolking zat ondergedoken dus statistisch gezien woonde daar 1100 inwoners plus 55 onderduikers en dan nog een onbekend aantal vluchtelingen. Het aantal van 800 is die 1100 die de duiters adminsteerde in de verdwenen huizenblokken op basis van het bevolkingsregister min diegene daarvan die na de oorlog toch nog in leven bleken te zijn en het bombardement overleefd hadden maar zonder de aantallen onderduikers en vluchtelingen.
Weer een mooi item Stefan! Groet uit Nijmegen. Peter
Dank Peter, fijne dagen!
Geweldige informatieve video, dank je wel!
@HistoryHustleNederlands Is er ook een nederlandstalige video van jou Stefan, over de bevrijding van Nijmegen ?
@HistoryHustleNederlands Zo'n belangrijke gebeurtenis moet ook in het nederlands.....
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@@Micktyb Merry Christmas 🎄👍
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One major incorrect detail is that the heroic paratroopers of 504th did not capture the northern side of both bridges, just the rail-bridge. Its a common error but its disappointing to see this myth still being perpetuated. The British Grenadier Guards completed their tank crossing of the road bridge at 1830 hours on the 20th, driving the Germans off it, a 5th tank (Lord Carrington) crossed half an hour later and sat at the northern end, with the first paratroopers of the 504th who had crossed the river arriving there at 1915 hours. They were heroic but they did not capture the northern end as the film depicts. The timings I stated are confirmed by the official divisional records of both 30 Corps and 82nd Division.
@@OldWolflad i see! I stand corrected then I guess.
@ I guess it sounds petty but to the Grenadier Guards, many stormed out when they went to watch the film for the first time, as they were so infuriated at the inaccuracy.
Wederom dank! Zeer leerzaam.
Gavin, the American, screwed up, he failed to take the bridge at Nijmegen, seeing it as a secondary matter to protecting his Eastern flank from a phantom German tank army!
The good old super accurate Norden bombsight does it again. Was the railway station on the otherside of the river from the town as today? What were the airforce casualties?
Over clear sky of an American military test site the Norden bombsight were very accurate. Dutch weather is more challenging. Check basic principles of mechanical computers for more info.
@gonono1966 If you can't see the target, you do not carpet bomb a city. The tests were at low level. The American airforce flew at over 25 000 feet to avoid flak. Impossible to hit anything. Taking out moving trains with Thunderbolts and no flak much better! How does bombing a Dutch city break the will of the German population? The Norden bombsight was examined by the Germans before the war and judged to be nothing special. You need to read up on the subject.
American airmen probably died in the attack as well. The US airforce generals have questions to answer.
There was also an attempt by the Germans to sabotage the waalbridge by a mine to be delivered by a one man submarine. The wreckage of the submarine has been recovered from the Waal river and is on display at Fort Pannerden near Nijmegen.
My Uncle John was in "I" Co. 504th PIR was in the first wave of the Waal river crossing. It was really a suicide mission. 26 boats left the shore and I believe only 11 boats made it. The crossing was supposed to be at 8am but actually didn't happen until 3:15pm as the canvas boats got held up on the way there. 260 men in "H" & "I" companies left the shore and 46 died. Many were wounded.
Market garden failed because the allies failed to link up but the gains from it help the allies get a foothold in the Netherlands
No mention of the fact the US troops focussed to much protecting the Groesbeek Heights they only sent a small group to conquer The bridge. Which was supposed yo be the primary target. Therefore the bridge was inly conquered on the 20th. No disrespect to American troops, this was on Gavin
Sorry about typos
Rather than flying in Browning's entire HQ in on the first day they would have been better off using those 36 Horsa gliders to send in another battalion of combat troops to take the bridge and the heights. The 82nd wouldn't have been able to hold the north end of the bridge against the 10th SS Panzer Division, but they probably could have held the south end from the hotel where he was filming at the start of the video and kept them out of the town.
@@jaylowry Agree
@@antalgiesbers2392 Gavin could have taken the northern end but he would have needed at least a battalion sent there on the 17th - but he was too fixated with Groesbeek Heights.
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Know a Veteran named John Roberts that was in the area below Nijmegen after Operation Market Garden.
Very good. BZ
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I thought the latest insight is that not occupying the bridges in Nijmegen in the hours after the landings when there were barely any Germans at the bridges but just securing the Groesberg heights and nothing more by Gavin is the root cause of the failure of Monty's folly? The relatively rapid reaction of the Germans by placing reinforcements at the bridge and the inner city in Nijmegen caused many days of delay for the ground forces of the Garden operation and ultimately the destruction of the Arnhem bridge head. So not sure if you can speak of a success at Nijmegen.
The British never captured the Rhine bridge in Arnhem, only the Northern approach. The contact with John Frost (after taking the northern approach of the bridge) and the rest of the para's never happened. Germans moved in reinforcements very quickly by rail. Unlike on D day communication lines and railways were operational in the Arnhem sector. Many say that having landings on two separate days and having to secure those landing/dropping grounds lead to not using the full force of the aitborne going into Arnhem immediately.
@@jandenijmegen5842 We're talking about Nijmegen not Arnhem.
@@pieterstroobach We ? The succes of Market Garden depends on many of the 26 bridges in the plan being captured (mainly Son, Grave, Nijmegen, Maas waal kanaal and Arnhem) . The Arnhem bridge was never fully captured. Germans could easily use trains around Arnhem and manged to move troop to Nijmegen and in the area between Arnhem and Nijmegen (Mannen Eiland). Some of the root causes of not taking he Arnhem bridge are:
1. 2 day landings and thus holding men back to secure landing zones
2. slow movement of troops to the bridges
3. no destruction of railroads and commmunication lines in the Arnhem area
4. poor intelligense about the Panzer Units
5. long way from landing zones to the bridge and difficult terrain once the germains are mor or less organised
6. crossing the Nijmegen bridge was too late to relieve the British that were having big problems almost directly after dropping
Eindelijk het Market Garden verhaal van Nijmegen uitgelicht!
Stef, what do you know about your families experience during the war?
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Great pic of Ronald Spiers of the 506th PIR around 3:30 in.
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The lessons learned from market garden help the allies planed operation varsity
Hoi Stefan de Duitsers hebben ook vanuit Emmerich geprobeerd met mini duikbootjes de brug te vernielen.
Zoiets begreep ik ja.
Wederom een mooie en informatieve video. Abonnement erbij.👍
The "graphics are"dynamic".. "highlighting " this battle"Instructor"!!
Audrey Hepburn, who was in Netherlands during the war and witnessed Market Garden once remarked "Don't discount anything said about the Germans, it really was that bad."
9:09 "Martha Ellis Gellhorn (1908 - 1998). She was the third wife of American novelist Ernest Hemingway, from 1940 to 1945."
A sidenote to contribute to the channel.
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The shockwave of the bombs launched my grandma in the air..She often told stories about the german occupation. As a Nijmegenaar i often walk the shores of the Waal and still find bullets fired from both sides.
Medal of honor airborne, Frontline and vanguard dealt with this forgotten battle
Not forgotten by U.S. paratroopers of any generation since the battle! It is one of our cornerstones of remembrance in the airborne.
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It's strange to hear Dutch names pronounced correctly!
Great story.
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Vergeten is helemaal niet aan de orde word ieder jaar groots herdacht rond 18 september
@@tiezel5656 mee eens. Bedoel meer in internationale literatuur. Daarin wordt de hele operatie vaak snel afgedaan als mislukking.
I still can’t believe the 82nd regiment came from the wrong direction to capture the bridge instead of going across flat open ground they decided to go through a city and get bugged down
The problem of using flat open ground is that you are a sitting duck once dicovered from the high grounds. Kopse Hof plateau, Valkhof and anything between. Your only chance is to move extremely fast and take the high grounds as well. Some say that the kopse Hof plateau housed a 88mm FLAK which is a sensible place to put it.
8000 paratroopers were left behind the Dutch didn't see liberation for another 8 months
US won in Vietnam too .
Do not forget that large parts of the south of the netherlands were liberated. From Maastricht to Nijmegen. That's a 140 kilometers.
The operation that had to be mounted because the Americans decided to make the bridge their secondary effort. Strange decision in an operation all about the rapid capture of key bridges.
Allied bombing accuracy was a bad joke. The Nordon bombsight was advertised by its developers as being able to drop a bomb into a pickle barrel from 20,000 feet. Actual post war bomb damage assessment (BDA) showed that it was incapable of dropping more than 5% of bombs dropped within a 250 foot radius circle of the target. That's why things like those described in this post happened.
Concerning the bombing, many did believe that 'bomber' Harris did lost the plot in his campaign and believes of the role of the bombers. Much good was done and like a bell curve sadly it also had its percentage of basic failures.
I’ve died on that bridge so many times
groetjes uit nijmegen haha
Ik ben nederlands i am ducht
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It still shocks me that the allies killed more Dutch then the Germans. We didn't seem to make much effort to reduce civilian deaths.
The argument is that it’s war but it doesn’t excuse the fact
It is regrettable.
It takes two-three rifles to take out one rifle
War is Hell.
@@BHuang92 it's the horror of war, brings out the worst in humanity.
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Plein '44 was een mooi plein, met een standbeeld als eerbetoon aan die periode. En wat doet de gemeente Nijmegen? Hup weg ermee, want we moeten meer verdienen aan een flat en parkeergarage.
Totaal respectloos.
/ Plein '44 was a beautiful square, with a statue as a tribute to that period. And what does the municipality of Nijmegen do? Get rid of it, because we have to earn more from an apartment building and parking garage.
Totally disrespectful.
@@marcopothuizen sad.
Bruls had het goed gedaan toendertijd. Viezerik riep in 't begin van corona meteen dat iedereen moest vaccineren.
SO HOW MANY CITIZENS DID YOUS LOOS TOO GERMAN OCCUPATION, OR VOLUNTEERS TO THE CAUSES , OR STARVATION. 😮😊
It was Montgomery's greatest blunder, it cost the lives of thousands of Dutch civilians, Polish and English soldiers, etc etc...NOT a success
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why do you show a photoshopped waalbrug in shambles?.. never happened!
also: maaswaalkanaal has 5 bridges, not 4. 3 got blown by the germans before the allies could capture 'em..
and what about the feb.22nd 1944 bombing being deliberate, targeting the railwaystation? with incendiaries (brisant)??
I am a NMGN citizen for over 31 years now, moved here when I was 15, and I never heard that before. feb 22nd was a cloudy day (the airial photos prove that) and the 14 Liberator bombers got desoriented because of that..
that all said and your name containing "Hustle" -in my eyes does not make you very trustworthy..
@@ferrydenhaan4956 well Ferry, I refer to my sources. The Waalbrug was demolished in 1940.
@@HistoryHustle True, blown up by the Dutch army and repaired by order of the Germans.
I'm sorry I can not see anything successful about this failed operation, The hunger winter (German retaliation on the Dutch population) being one of the results of it, my then teenage father nearly died of starvation and too many of my people did.
Imagine you are Dutch and you live in Eindhoven, Grave, or Nijmegen. The situation is tough but you are free. The hard times were for the west of the Netherlands where about 20.000 died of starvation or malnutrion. In general Market Garden is considered a failure because is did not manage to achieve its main objective: a fast way into Germany.