Dronrijp Reprisals
The Dronrijp Reprisals were carried out by the Nazi Germany, German Sicherheitsdienst in the Netherlands, Dutch town of Dronrijp on 11 April 1945. 14 prisoners, including 11 members of the Dutch resistance, were shot in reprisal for the sabotage of a rail line. Background In the evening of 9 April 1945, only a few days before the town's liberation by the First Canadian Army, Canadians, the local department of the national resistance organisation ''Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten'' (BS) received the order to start "sabotaging road, rail and water" to prevent German troops from escaping to Germany. BS member Broer Dijkstra and his sabotage group decided to prepare a disruption of the Leeuwarden-Franeker train line. In the night of 9 to 10 April, they removed the screws of 75 metres of railroad track, causing a ''Wehrmacht'' locomotive carrying 26 wagons to derail the night after. Within hours, the ''Sicherheitsdienst'' and the ''Sicherheitspolizei'' learned about the sabotage by a mess ...
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