Resources

Our list of resources is a starting point for further exploration of the Netherlands under German occupation. They include works on the Holocaust, Operation Market Garden and its aftermath, and daily life. We have included works in both English and Dutch. Please use the contact us at info@rabbitholes.com if you have a suggestion on further additions.

Websites

Further Reading

  • Kees Adema and Jeffrey Groeneveld, The Paper Trail: World War II Holland and Its Colonies as Seen Through Mail and Documents
  • Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
  • Cornelius Ryan, A Bridge Too Far
  • Robert Matzen, Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
  • Nina Siegal, The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands as Written by the People who lived Through It
  • Robert Kershaw, A Street in Arnhem: The Agony of Occupation and Liberation
  • Robert Kershaw, It Never Snows in September
  • Ingrid de Zwarte, The Hunger Winter: Fighting Famine in the Occupied Netherlands, 1944-1945
  • Rene Kruis and Gerrold van der Stroom, “The K number,” Quarendo, Vol 40, Issue 3-4, 2010
  • Ruth Jacobsen, Rescued Images: Memories of a Childhood in Hiding
  • Paul Glaser, Dancing with the Enemy: My Family’s Holocaust Secret
  • J. Presser, Ashes in the Wind: The Destruction of Dutch Jewry
  • Stephen Dando-Collins, Operation Chowhound: the most risky, most glorious US bomber mission of WWII.
  • Bart van der Boom, “‘The Auschwitz Reservation’: Dutch Victims and Bystanders and Their Knowledge of the Holocaust.” Holocaust and genocide studies 31, no. 3 (2017): 385–407.
  • Henry G Schogt, The Curtain: Witness and Memory in Wartime Holland
  • Lewis Golden, Echoes from Arnhem
  • William Buckingham, Arnhem 1944: An Epic Battle Revisted
  • Anthony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
  • Graeme Warrack, Travel by Dark/Tocht door het Duister
  • Scott Revell, Niall Cherry, and Bob Gerritsen, A Few Vital Hours
  • Bob Gerritsen and Scott Revell, Retake Arnhem Bridge
  • Bob Gerritsen, For No Apparent Reason
  • Martin Middlebrook, Arnhem 1944
  • John Hackett, I Was a Stranger
  • Robert Peatling, No Surrender at Arnhem
  • Hester den Boer, Kamp Erika
  • Karel Berkhuysen, Verzet via het geheime telefonnet
  • Bob Gerritsen, Fighting the British at Arnhem
  • Christer Berstrom, Arnhem 1944: An Epic Battle Revisted (two volumes)
  • A list of books related to the battle from multiple perspectives can be found at Books - Arnhem 1944 Fellowship

Documentaries, Movies, and Shorts

Television

  • A Small Light
  • Band of Brothers: Episode 4 “Replacements,” Episode 5 “Crossroads,” and Episode 9 “Why We Fight”
  • Masters of the Air: Parts 3 and 4