Tag: Netherlands

Blowin’ In The Wind


① memo 20171227 ~ Blowin’ In The Wind ~ Freewheelin’ yesterday (Boxing Day) around noon : the strong sea wind blew the bicycles over the dike on the dutch island Terschelling along the Wadden Sea

Tiger Track


① memo 20171103 ~ Tiger Track ~ Volunteer “war-archeologist” Frits rebuilding the narrow gauge rail track , constructed and used by the German occupier during World War Two for the construction etc of the bunkers of the former Luftwaffe Radar site “TIGER Stellung” , filmed a month ago accompanied by volunteer guide Peter de Jong on the Wadden Isle Terschelling , Netherlands

Jerry Posts


① memo 20171102 ~ Jerry Posts ~ ‘Moffenpaaltjes’ – ‘moffen’ dutch pejorative term for Germans – iron posts with leaf-like top of barbed wire fence used by the German occupier during World War Two around the bunkers of the former Luftwaffe Radar site “TIGER Stellung” (http://bunkersterschelling.nl ) , filmed a month ago on the Wadden Isle Terschelling , Netherlands

Skoda


① memo 20171031 ~ Skoda ~ Beachcomber Hille van Dieren together with other local volunteer “war-archeologists” ‘exhumed’ this wreckage of a 1936 Skoda car at the former Luftwaffe Radar site “TIGER Stellung” on the Wadden Isle Terschelling. This Skoda 420P cabriolet was owned by the Frisean Roelof Beetsma , when in 1943-’44, the Germans requisitioned his car for use by the Luftwaffe personnel and staff of the ‘TIGER Stellung’. Filmed last month – with volunteer guide Peter de Jong telling this story in dutch – in one of the bunkers of the Tiger Bunkermuseum Terschelling ( http://bunkersterschelling.nl ) , Netherlands.