Battlefield Tours Veritable

Name: Battlefield Tours Veritable
Address: Gennep, 6591TG, NL
Telephone: +31653929245
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26/04/2026

Preparations for an upcoming battlefield tour. Always nice to take the bike out when the sun is shining.

22/03/2026

A glorious day for a remembrance. 24th of March 81 years ago, operation Varsity took place. Today we went to the Reichwald war cemetery to remember the men that fell, the ones that were caught and had to endure a few month in PoW-camps and the wounded, mentally or physically. With a small group we stood still and remembered.

Then we rode to the "Liberation Tower". An electrical transformer station that stood in the middle of a landing zone. There was a small exhibition inside and a larger static show outside.

To finish the day off, I rode to the monument for the Dambuster AJ-E that crashed near Haldern.

02/03/2026

It is rare that I "stumble" over a war cemetery I did really know about.

When riding towards a meeting in Belgium I passed by the Maarheeze (Sterksel monastry) war cemetery. The monastry used to be a field hospital, hence the cemetery.

I size, it is odd that there is a Cross of Sacrifice, for 42 grave. A peacefull setting nonetheless.

15/02/2026

Tomorrow, 16 februari, it will be 81 years when the 52nd Lowland Division took over the positions of the 51st Highlanders at Heijen. This to clear the Broedersbosch from German defences, to take Afferden and to cross the anti-tank ditch behind Castle Bleijenbeek.

The circumstances proved negative for the 52nd Lowlanders. The defence of the Germans, first in the forest, then at the castle with behind it the anti-tank ditch proved to be untakeable.

About 2 weeks, the division was stagnant and only when the 51st Highland division pushed in for Siebengewald and threatened to cut off the German battalions, they gave up the castle and the area south of it.

This period proved to be costly for the 52nd and the 1st Canadian Army. The time spend in that area, in combination with the US-army being unable to cross the river Ruhr in the south, made it possible for the German army to retreat a lot of forces back to Wesel and to built up a new line of defence behind the river Rhine.

In honour to the men of the 52nd, whose story became so vivid to me, I rode a little ride throught the Broederbosch forest and around the castle.

08/02/2026

Today, traditionally the remembrance of the start of Operation Veritable in Groesbeek. Not at the cemetery, not with a lot of decorum, but personal stories at the Zuidmolen. A mill that was pivotal for the start of the operation.

The remembrance was organised by the Groesbeek Airborne Vrienden.

16/11/2025

Volkstrauertag in Ysselsteyn, de oorlogsbegraafplaats waar (nagenoeg) alle, in Nederland, omgekomen Duitse soldaten, Nederlandse collaborateurs en landverraders begraven liggen, bijna 32000 in totaal.
En hoe verhoud je dan als jeugdige hiertoe, als rabbijn, als geestelijke, als mens. Hoe verhoud je hiertoe als kind of kleinkind van. Mag je van jouw voorvader houden, ook wanneer het schuurt?

De laatste woorden van de rabbijn, die sprak vanuit wie hij is als persoon, waren:
"Ik geloof in de zon, zelfs als hij niet schijnt.
Ik geloof in liefde, zelfs als ik haar niet kan voelen.
Ik geloof in God, zelfs als Hij zwijgt."
(geschreven door een Joodse gevangene in Duitsland tijdens de Holocaust)

En zo is het. Het is er, ook wanneer het er soms niet lijkt te zijn,

16/11/2025

Volkstrauertag in Donsbrüggen.

Een grijze dag, een beetje miezer, toch samen. Samen herdenken maakt elkaar sterker. De hand reiken en wanneer die zoals hier wordt aangenomen, maakt de band sterker. Ook wanneer veel veranderd is en veel zal veranderen. Samen sterker, wij zijn met meer.

09/11/2025

I not only visited the Oosterbeek War Cemetery but also the Groesbeek, Reichswald, Ottersum and Milsbeek one.

09/11/2025

Today was Remembrance Sunday. I attended another service at the Oosterbeek War Cemetery. Great to be amongst people who know why we are here. Lest we forget.

21/09/2025

21-9-2025: Hass Tötet, Liebe Versöhnt. With this thought, people from Kranenburg in 1995 established a monument to remember 2 murdered airmen from a C47 that went down nearby on the 17th of September, by an SS-officer.

The people were shocked by the event and remembered it for ever. In 2016 it became known who these men were. Cpl Armstrong and T/Sgt Harrison were the unfortunate men.

Since then, the Groesbeek Airborne Vrienden and the Kranenburg Municipality are making sure they are remembered and the scars of the families of these men can heal.

Today, over a video recording, the grandson of Corporal Armstrong told us what it meant for his father and him, that the Groesbeek Airborne Vrienden found out about his grandfather and that the community remains on remembering what happened to him. A very touching moment.

Since a few years, the stories about these men are also shared by schoolchildren from Kranenburg.

To reconcile with what happened, with a open eye and a warm heart, that is what we'd wish for the world at this moment

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