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    Walraven van Hall (category Dutch civilians killed in World War II)
    executed by the German occupier in Haarlem shortly before the end of the war and buried at the Erebegraafplaats Bloemendaal. Born into an influential Dutch...
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    Hannie Schaft (category Deaths by firearm in the Netherlands)
    in the dunes of Overveen, near Bloemendaal. Two men known as Mattheus Schmitz and Maarten Kuiper took her to the execution site. Schmitz shot her in the...
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  • Karel de Hoogh in 1943) and a novel, and in 1943 he became a member of the armed resistance, by joining the group called Raad van Verzet group. One of...
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    The Dutch resistance (Dutch: Nederlands verzet) to the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II can be mainly characterized as non-violent...
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