Englandspiel
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SOE needed professional intelligence officers at its head, as we had in the Abwehr, and in particular it needed men adept at subversive warfare. Instead they sent us infants, keen and willing, but qui
"Englandspiel Monument" or The Fall of Icarus (by Titus Leeser [nl]) in The Hague memorializes the 54 agents who were dropped into the Netherlands during Das Englandspiel. The inscription says, in part "They jumped to their death for our freedom."
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Mauthausen concentration camp, memorial plaques behind the Prison Block marking the spot where the ashes of the executed Englandspiel SOE agents are buried
Englandspiel memorial plaques behind the Prison Block of the Mauthausen concentration camp
A plaque regarding the Englandspiel on the Binnenhof in The Hague
Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema
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Siebren Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema was a Dutch writer who became a resistance fighter and RAF pilot during the Second World War. Near the end of the war he was adjudant to Queen Wilhelmina. He was made
Roelfzema in 1945
Rapenburg 56, Leiden, where Roelfzema lived as a student
A reconstruction of a cell at the "Orange hotel"
British Motor Gun Boat 316, a sister to MGB 320 assigned to transport "the Mews"