The liberation of the Dutch town of Zutphen in 1945 in color! De bevrijding van Zutphen in 1945. 

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Really fantastic videos Rick888. Very interesting to me because my father served in the Princess Irene Brigade of the free Dutch forces based in Willenhall in England during WW2 before crossing into Europe via Normandy to liberate Holland along with the Canadian Army. My father was British born in Hammersmith London but his parents (my grandparents) were Dutch. They had stayed in England for a while before emigrating to the USA and were living in Detroit Michigan. My aunts and uncles remained in Holland during WW2. My father's younger brother was born in the USA and served in the US Army towards the end of WW2. My father remained with the Princess Irene Brigade of the Royal Netherlands Army after WW2 and was posted to London where he served with the regiment until 1953. He was a driver with the Brigade throughout the war and afterwards but stayed in England and moved to Lytham St Annes in Lancashire. I never got to see my grandparents in the USA but myself and my parents went over to Holland in 1952 when my father was presented with a medal by Queen Wilhelmena of the Netherlands at the Hague. During that visit I was able to meet some of the Dutch side of my family. I was only 4 years old at the time so unfortunately don't remember much about that. I am now in possession of my father's military records which were obtained from his regiment via the Dutch Ministry of Defence.

so you should

As you should!

Did he ever explain why he was always on the brink of rage? Was it due to any specific experiences there?

Please thank him for liberating us , greetings from Amsterdam

My mother who was twelve years when The Netherlands was liberated told us about the Canadians....we will not forget them!

Poor boy, and so many others like him!

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Hi Wendy ,he gave his today for our tomorrow, peace and love from the wirral peninsula...we have a war memorial in Liverpool Pier head dedicated to Canada...

Same day my dad was wounded by a sniper 10 mile NE of Zutphen just after crossing the Schipbeek Canal near Wippert. Three of his comrades were killed there, and rest at Holten as well.

For what its worth, I feel very sorry for you and your country. Welcome to Holland! I'm sure you will be well looked after here and hopefully you will be able to return home soon! A cruel war like this for evil and medievil reasons in the 21st century is total madness. I never thought I would witness such an event to happen during my lifetime, let alone come so close to a potential nuclear WW-III.

PS: Two weeks I made a film about the history of Ukraine. Making it was a very emotional event for me, especially the last part. Please watch: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gumqN5zoUjo.html

I am a Dutch-American and I can't believe this is happening again. I am glad you are safe in my brothers and sisters arms. Stay Safe.

Here in our creaking but still functioning NHS are sending what we can to our brave colleagues in Ukraine ,we have just had a fundraising concert at the Gladstone theatre in port Sunlight on the wirral

I wish you and your family all the best, and my heart goes out to Ukraine at this difficult time.

Sorry but you cant just type Canadians like that 🤣😂🤣, its so painfull

🇨🇦✌ Peace love And if that don't work We tend to get pissed Peace is best 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦✌✌✌👍

The worst thing is that the Ukra Nziss fled to Canada in 1945. Many are now in high positions in Canada

@@kyunney4361 About 77 years after the war ... there all dead... Your reaction on my post is surely a bit strange...

@@roelkomduur8073 have they been sterilized?🤣

Netherlands, they don't like it to be called Holland.

@@puraLusa i never understood why, it used to be Holland?

@@Shyzenth it's in Wikipedia, not really hard to find and answer: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland

@Of Age Non Related Carp that clears things up, makes sense, thank you!

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We received similar treatment travelling in the Netherlands in the '80's

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my father also served in theprincess irene brigade

@@adrianligt7925 many thanks for this. My father was a driver with the Brigade which was based in Willenhall in England before going through Europe via Normandy with the Canadians to liberate Holland. At the time of the occupation of Holland by the Germans my father was living in the USA with his parents who emigrated to the USA after living in England for a while. My father was born in Hammersmith In London in 1922. My father crossed over into Canada to join the Free Dutch Forces and was sent to England to join the Princess Irene Brigade.

Thank you for their service

Along with the British

The Canadian forces were billeted in my town along the south coast of the UK during both wars, and today we proudly fly the Canadian flag to commemorate your help.

Many thanks! The high quality is due to the use of new A.I. enhancer software. I am now even contemplating to release material in 4K at 60fps from now on!

Thank you for sharing this with us all, William, he will never be forgotten...

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Must have been a thrill to have seen that part of history so closely affiliated with your grandfather. When ever I see war footage of Okinawa I wonder if one of those marines and sailors is my father

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Thank you kindly

If you like, you can send me some MM footage so I can take a look what is feasible. Email is ricksfilmrestoration@gmail.com

When I was a schoolboy in Holland, we handed out bouquets of tulips to visiting Canadians vets and their wives. It was nice but confusing all the same. Some got emotional, which puzzled us. Our teacher told us that they saved a lot of kids like us. True that.

@@peabase No matter where we go, kids attach themselves to the Canadian troops. We used to save the sweets from the ration packs for kids. It hurt a lot of the guys to see the kids in those situations. I think the Dutch people have show great appreciation over the years for the soldiers who liberated them and those who rest in Holland. Thanks.

Well said

It's not hard to understand if you know any Russian history since 1917.

@@wombatwilly1002 I do know history rather well & that doesn’t excuse Russia one bit….

@@sallyann8308 That's my point hon,Russia has been humanity's a$$ boil since 1917 and Should've been dealt with in 46 We wouldn't have their garbage now!!!

@@wombatwilly1002 Too bad Roosevelt was so sick (Yalta) & the US & Western Europe were desperate to end the war. Can you blame them? Stalin was the epitome of evil-not a single thought for humanity. How many of these guys do we have to overcome? It’s endless….. Now we have Elon Musk & his ilk to contend with.

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@@Rick88888888 Mrs C,s uncle served in the East Lancashire regiment alongside the American paratroopers at Nijmegen,sadly succumbed to his wounds RIP, ironically as an Army officer herself with the BAOR/ British army of the Rhine in the 80,s used to do the Nijmegen walks along with other NATO colleagues. Peace and love from the wirral peninsula ,bounded by the mersey and the Dee and the Irish sea ,geography and rhyme.

Thank you very much!

I agree she's got such a beautiful smile. 😃

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It's colourized and digitized. Wartime color film was not this crisp. Notice all the purple hues that bleed over everything....

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The thing with the Dutchies is that everyone likes them so I guess the Germans treated them nicely

@@arefkr they were starved, so, no.

Ah....they did not have so much problems, we collaborated fully with them. The Netherlands have the record for " most people joining the enemy of an occupied country in Europe"

@@trevorbrianhassell Source?

@@thomascragg783 His source? His thumb and a bit of suction!! 25.000 to max 50.000 served the German armed forces out of a population of 10 million so that's max 0.5% Some people were forced to cooperate by occupation like the police who had max 18000 people during the war and prior to the war there was a fascist party called NSB who had 30.000 members who supplied most of those who served the german forces but also formed a civil militia that helped the germans . Active resistance was 45000 people passive resistance hundred thousands and they managed to save 380.000 people who were wanted and actively searched by the Germans so these people were put in hiding by the resistance in hundreds of thousands different addresses in the families of their passive helpers at their own homes and they were sustained by the resistance in their needs to survive like with food stamps and fake ID's which the resistance had to obtain with armed robbery on police stations, town halls and post offices. My grandfather and his team once even managed to pull off 4 of such robberies on a single day!! Imagine that in peace time, some one pulling of 4 bank robberies on a single day!! They had to do it during an occupation and a country full of enemy soldiers looking out for them with checkpoints everywhere while they only had some old revolvers and a hand full of bullets!! So if he thinks the Dutch collaborated fully with them i would like to invite him to come to Waalsdorp or Overveen or one of the other cemeteries for killed resistance fighters on the 4th of May when we remember and honor those who lost their lives and walk with me past their graves, so he will never insult those who gave their lives for us ever again with such a stupid ill informed comment!!

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It's colourized and digitized. Wartime color film was not this crisp. Notice all the purple hues that bleed over everything....

I guess the word I was looking for is cinematic.

Many thanks!

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Glad you think so!

Indeed, very sad footage

@@Rick88888888 I am from Ukraine, now with my family I live in a Zutphen.

@@mikhailsmoliakov3434 welcome, i hope you will like it here

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There is a small street in Zutphen called Beatonstraat. It was named for my Fathers cousin Doug (Douglas) he was 24 years old and came from the small town of Inverness in Nova Scotia. If you ever have a chance and your on that street could you just say "Doug the people back in Canada say hi."

Graag gedaan

RAOC!

Indeed `cwt´ seems to stand for ´hundredweight´ (which I didn´t know because it is such an archaic measuring standard)

@@Rick88888888 NNot so archaic. Metrification in the UK STARTED in 1965, but took some years to really take effect. You must remember that it is an age-related thing and many older folk still use Imperial Measurement. The USA is not metric. And some Imperial measurements remain legal, too, in the UK!

@@crossleydd42 Well, using Stone, Furlong, Fortnight, Hundred weight, Barrels, Bushell, Inch, Guinees, Half-a-crown and what-have-you doesn't make life easier... Using Stone to weight people stems from medievil ages. Hooray for the countries who saw the light and introduced the metric/decimal system!

@@Rick88888888 ..........but many of those countries didn't have a standard system even within their country or sphere of influence, whereas Britain did have one that covered not only the UK, but much of the British Empire and so, despite its shortcomings in some respects, there was not the imperative to take action to standardise on anything else until much later. Indeed, the Industrial Revolution which introduced so much which advanced technology to the UK British Empire and then throughout much of the world in time, was built on Imperial measurement. Two opposites come to mind. In the UK, time was not standard throughout the UK until trains came along in the 1830s and rapidl changes to standardise time rapidly came in aid timetabled services. Conversely, the side of the road folk drove on everywhere was completely random locally originally , but started to standardise by itself, advance when Napolean forced right-hand driving on the countries he invaded. The thoughtful and considerate Hitler added to the process with Austria and Czechoslovakia, leaving only Sweden to convert itself in the 1960s. But there is no imperative for island nations to change and generally, they haven't. We'll gloss over standard train track gauges, save for Spain, Ireland and Russia. There is still plenty in the world which is non-standard and, somehow, we all get by!

@@Rick88888888 fair comment ,however people still want to use weight and measures ,good on them..freedom to choose, very important..