François van 't Sant was a Dutch head-commissioner of police, leading intelligence figure and confidant of Queen Wilhelmina and other members of the Dutch Royal House of Orange-Nassau. In both World W
François van 't Sant on Pall Mall near St. James's Palace, London, 1946.
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."
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