Is it safe yet? I dunno…Send out the kid.
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This is a picture of when some German troops, two days after the German surrender decided to take a machine gun and shoot straight into the celebrating masses at Dam Square in Amsterdam. 22 people died and 120 people were injured.
So not funny.
Not funny. On 7 May 1945, two days after German capitulation, thousands of Dutch people were waiting for the liberators to arrive on the Dam square in Amsterdam. In the Grose Club members of the Kriegsmarine watched as the crowd below their balcony grew and people danced and cheered. The Germans then placed a machinegun on the balcony and started shooting into the crowds.[1] The motives behind the shooting have remained unclear.
The shooting finally came to an end after a member of the resistance climbed into the tower of the royal palace and started shooting onto the balcony and into the Club. At that moment, a German officer together with a Resistance commander found their way into the Club and convinced the men to surrender. At the brink of peace, 120 people were badly injured and 22 pronounced dead.
Actually, my aunt was there with her little baby boy in a pram, when this happened on Dam square. Luckely they survived, but my aunt told me it was one of the worst and frightening things she experienced during WWII, living in Amsterdam.
If you want to know more about the photo:
http://www.lotten.se/2011/10/en-gammal-bild-som-ledde-till-de-dam-i-amsterdam.html
(It’s in Swedish, but just read it like the Swedish Chef in The Muppet Show. Or translate the whole thing.)
It’s not funny!
What is it?
Anybody know what’s going on here, and when and where?
Again, the title makes this.
“The motives behind the shooting have remained unclear”? Really? No, really. I thought historians would know at least a little about human nature.