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The Germans are not yet confident of a good outcome on September 23

in Arnhem/September 23
An English soldier fires his bren gun at a German position near Arnhem.

While the situation of the remnants of the British Airborne Division in Oosterbeek became increasingly precarious on Saturday, September 23, the German army leadership was not yet convinced of a positive outcome. The Germans knew that the British in Oosterbeek only had a quarter of the combat strength they had at the landing on September…

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From day to day

in Arnhem
Reporter Alan Wood of the Daily Express writes a report in the woods near Oosterbeek.

The day-by-day battle report forms the heart of this website. Below, and in the menu at the top of the site, you will find the pages about the course of the battle. After the battle After operation Market Garden ended in failure, the area on the north of the Lower Rhine was still occupied by…

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The liberation of Arnhem, part 1: After the Battle of Arnhem

in Arnhem/Liberation
Arnhem in ruins.

The liberation of Arnhem cannot be separated from the bitter fighting in September 1944 during the Battle of Arnhem. Operation Market Garden aimed to force an Allied breakthrough across the Rhine. Arnhem turned out to be a bridge too far. While British and Polish troops defended the perimeter in Oosterbeek on September 23 1944, the…

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The liberation of Arnhem, part 2: the liberation of Arnhem South

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Graslaan in Malburgen in 1945. In the center the field grave of an Australian pilot who was shot during the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944.

Nowadays half of the population of Arnhem lives in Arnhem South, but during the Second World War it was just a small neighbourhood. There were some streets in Malburgen East and there was De Praets in Meinerswijk. It was nothing more than that. Elden was a little further south, but that village was not yet…

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The liberation of Arnhem, part 3: the second Battle of Arnhem

in Arnhem/Liberation
Allied troops cross the IJssel near Arnhem.

When you drive from the Sakharov bridge in the direction of the Velperbroek junction, you cross the site we British troops of the 49th Division crossed the IJssel in the night of April 12-13, 1945. Seven months after the Battle of Arnhem, a second attempt was made to liberate the city. The action had been…

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The liberation of Arnhem, part 4: liberation of a destroyed city

in Arnhem/Liberation
German prisoners are taken away on Utrechtseweg near the museum. The damage to the houses is from the fighting during the Battle of Arnhem, when there was heavy fighting around the museum. (Photo: Imperial War Museum.)

In the night of 12 to 13 April 1945, British troops with amphibious vehicles from Westervoort crossed the IJssel to liberate Arnhem. The German defense of the city was contracted at the Enka factory in the Kleefse Waard, east of the city. It took the Canadians almost all day to expel the troops that had…

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VIDEO: This is what the area around the Rhine Bridge looked like in 1944

in Arnhem/Before the battle/Photos

The bridge at Arnhem was the main objective of Operation Market Garden. The immediate vicinity of the Rhine Bridge was destroyed during and after the Battle of Arnhem. Except for some old photos, nothing is left of the original buildings. For the first time you can now see where the British fought during the Battle…

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PHOTOS: An English patrol in the city center of Arnhem

in Arnhem/Photos/September 18

An English patrol in the city center of Arnhem. That was still possible in the morning of Monday, September 18. The Germans were aware that the British held the north side of the Rhine Bridge, but organized German troops at the bridge were not yet established. For that reason, Captain Killick had been sent out…

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PHOTOS: the battle at the bridge through German eyes

in Arnhem/Photos
German corporal Karl-Heinz Kracht eats his ration in front of his tank. The tank was parked at Jos Pé printing house.

German corporal Karl-Heinz Kracht was a bomb loader in a Mark III tank that was deployed against John Frost’s paratroopers at the Rhine Bridge. Few pictures have been taken of the battle around the bridge. Besides British aerial photos, we actually only have the photos that Karl-Heinz Kracht took as a hobby photographer during the…

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PHOTOS: Germans expel the British from Utrechtseweg

in Arnhem/Photos/September 19
German soldiers with a piece of anti-aircraft gun on Boulevard Heuvelink. The soldier on the right who puts a bottle to his mouth is the German war photographer Erich Wenzel. Many of the photos below are from his hand. (Photo: Bundesarchiv.)

On the morning of Tuesday, September 19, 1944, two German Propaganda Kompanie Kriegsberichter arrive in Arnhem: Wenzel and Jacobsen. The war correspondents with their 35 mm cameras took many photos that day of the events in Arnhem. This page shows an image report of the photos Wenzel and Jacobsen took on Utrechtseweg, where they traveled…

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