The Liberation of Amsterdam on 8 May 1945

On 8 May 1945, the Allied forces rolled into Amsterdam and the Netherlands woke to liberation. But not everyone celebrated. Real archival footage of the arrival of the Allies, the jubilation of the Dutch people, and the darker truths that came with the end of occupation — the traitors, the reckonings, the families counting their dead. The story of a city, and a country, finding its way back to itself. This is one of the historical moments at the heart of The Crystal Butterfly, the novel that begins my Resistance Girl Series, set in Holland during the Second World War. Archival footage: "Bevrijdingsbeelden Amsterdam" — Polygoon-Profilti (producent), Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid (beheerder). Reportage van de intocht der Canadezen en Britten in de hoofdstad. Grote, feestelijke optocht. Oppakken van collaborateurs en afvoeren Duitse militairen als krijgsgevangenen. De burgemeester onthult een straatnaambord ter nagedachtenis aan een gefusilleerde verzetsstrijder. 📚 ABOUT THIS CHANNEL Three recurring series: → THE BYRON ARCHIVE: long-form films on the history behind the fiction. → THE BYRON DESK: Hannah Byron on camera, on the women she writes. → THE BYRON REEL: atmospheric Shorts. ✒️ ABOUT HANNAH BYRON Historical fiction set in the literary, artistic, and political worlds of early-twentieth-century Continental Europe. Author of the Resistance Girl Series and the Timeless Spies trilogy. 🔗 LINKS The Crystal Butterfly (Resistance Girl Series, Book 6): http://mybook.to/TheCrystalButterfly?... Patreon (The Byron Circle):   / u56905280   Newsletter (The Byron Letter): https://www.hannahbyron.com/newsletter #TheByronArchive #LiberationOfAmsterdam #DutchResistance #ResistanceGirlSeries