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April 8th 1940,
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April 8th 1940, Dear Diary, Life is the same as usual in Rotterdam. My wife, Lisa and son Jack, are doing fine and my job at the harbour is going well. However a new threat seems to be lurking in the distance, one we have not had to deal with for a long time...war. It is now just over a year since the Germans took their first victim, Czechoslovakia in March 1939. Since then I have heard that the German war machine has churned its way through Poland, Denmark and Norway and as nobody has yet succeeded in stopping them, I fear places like Holland, Belgium and France are next. However, we have not taken sides, Holland is a neutral country and up to now we have been living peacefully under good-old Dutch rule. May 13th 1940 Dear diary, My worst fears have come true. I heard this morning on the wireless that...
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