Very old news:
A Dutch Protestant newspaper I subscribe to has an article this Saturday about misbehaving allied soldiers in the Southern Netherlands in 1944-45.
After the failure of Market Garden allied soldiers in the liberated part of the Netherlands plundered and caused destruction on a large scale. Strong boxes, including one in a church, were blown up. A town administration was thrown into the street and lost when cabinets it was stored in were stolen. The bedding from two hospitals was stolen. Pictures were cut out of frames Also an exercise in fighting in streets was held in streets that had not been damaged in fighting while damaged streets were available. Five farms and their stored crops were burned down during an exercise with flame throwers. The damage was done by British and Canadian forces but mostly by US army.
I had heard about this but this is the first time I read about it and it was much worse than I imagined.The paper found this information in the Dutch National Archive.
A Dutch Protestant newspaper I subscribe to has an article this Saturday about misbehaving allied soldiers in the Southern Netherlands in 1944-45.
After the failure of Market Garden allied soldiers in the liberated part of the Netherlands plundered and caused destruction on a large scale. Strong boxes, including one in a church, were blown up. A town administration was thrown into the street and lost when cabinets it was stored in were stolen. The bedding from two hospitals was stolen. Pictures were cut out of frames Also an exercise in fighting in streets was held in streets that had not been damaged in fighting while damaged streets were available. Five farms and their stored crops were burned down during an exercise with flame throwers. The damage was done by British and Canadian forces but mostly by US army.
I had heard about this but this is the first time I read about it and it was much worse than I imagined.The paper found this information in the Dutch National Archive.