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  1. 2 days ago · Antwerp was liberated on 4 September 1944 but the war was far from over. Of all the Belgian cities, Antwerp was the hardest hit during the German bombardment with flying bombs and rockets. Historians estimate that some 3,000 civilians were killed in Greater-Antwerp during six months.

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  2. 4 days ago · In his search for an explanation for why the number would be so much higher, Saerens eventually lands at the conclusion that a critical factor was the extent of local cooperation – the willingness of the people and authorities of Antwerp to help their German occupiers.

  3. 2 days ago · Hundreds of serious incidents have been reported in Antwerp over the past decade, including shootings, grenade attacks, fires and small bombs, many linked to gangs trying to carve up the thriving cocaine trade.

  4. 3 days ago · The naval bombardment and bombing by the Allied air forces failed to have the destructive effect on German beach defences hoped for, and in many places Allied infantry, engineers and tanks had to fight their way forward.

  5. 3 days ago · The German invasion of the Netherlands ( Dutch: Duitse aanval op Nederland ), otherwise known as the Battle of the Netherlands ( Dutch: Slag om Nederland ), was a military campaign part of Case Yellow ( German: Fall Gelb ), the Nazi German invasion of the Low Countries ( Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands) and France during World War II.

  6. 5 days ago · In the first place, the German right wing was weakened by the subtraction of 11 divisions; four were detached to watch Antwerp and to invest French fortresses near the Belgian frontier, instead of using reserve and Ersatz troops for this as earlier intended, and seven more regular divisions were transferred to check the Russian advance into ...

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  8. 4 days ago · Ryanair recently announced that it would be cutting services completely out of Bordeaux-Merignac Airport (BOD) and slashing its number of flights in half at Warsaw’s secondary Modlin Airport (WMI). This will affect the airports’ operations, which are to a differing degree dependent on the low-cost carrier. This reflects a phenomenon in ...

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