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De Woeste Hoeve
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- Oude Arnhemseweg 292, 7361 TW, Hoenderloo (gemeente Apeldoorn)
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In March 1945 117 men were shot near an Inn called "De Woeste Hoeve" close to Hoenderloo as a reprisal action after an erroneously attack on the highest Police- and SS-chef in the Netherlands, Hans Albin Rauter. The men were "Todeskandidaten", originating from several prisons in the country.
The 117 victims were initially buried on a nearby cemetery in Ugchelen, where nowadays still four victims are buried on the "Woeste Hoevelaantje".
At the place of the attack a simple monument appeared shortly after the liberation, a wooden cross with a wooden plate with the text `On 8-3-'45 117 countrymen were assassinated by the German oppressor, in a cruel manner.'
Only in 1992, the current monument was revealed, a wooden cross with a memorialplate made off glass with the names of 115 victims in alphabetical order, framed by metal (two of the victims remained unknown). The cross and the plate are surrounded by a metal construction. In the path to the monument lies a memorialstone with a poem of the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
More information in Dutch: Go2War2.nl
Source: Kees Jan Koster & René ten Dam
Pictures: Kees Jan Koster (1,3), Fedor de Vries (2) & Han Oosterling (4)
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