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1. Blauwe Kamer – Grebbeberg loop from Rhenen

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2. Blauwe Kamer – Grebbeberg loop from Opheusden

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3. Grebbeberg – Winding path loop from Rhenen

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Ilse Buitelaar

October 29, 2021

Military Field of Honor Grebbeberg with an interesting information center. Here the story is told about the Battle of the Grebbeberg. More than 400 soldiers died in the heavy fighting, they are buried here.

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Ilse Buitelaar

December 21, 2021

The Grebbeberg military cemetery near Rhenen is the first war cemetery in the Netherlands. Only soldiers are buried here. This cemetery on the Grebbeberg is the final resting place of more than 400 Dutch soldiers who fell in May 1940 in the battle for the southernmost part of the Grebbe Line. They are buried in the ground they have defended with their lives. After the surrender, the Dutch and German victims were buried on the site of the battle.

After the war, the remains of the German soldiers were transferred and reburied at the cemetery for German war dead in Ysselsteyn (Limburg). Since 1946, soldiers who died elsewhere in the Netherlands in those May days have been reburied on the Grebbeberg and who were buried in family graves. The plot now has more than 850 graves.

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Bumble-Bee

March 17, 2024

Since 1946, this cemetery has served as a national memorial site. The military memorial ceremony takes place here on National Remembrance Day, May 4. In addition, on Whit Monday, a commemoration of the former Eighth Infantry Regiment takes place, where all colleagues who died during the May days are remembered.

(nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militair_ereveld_Grebbeberg)

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Location: Rhenen, Utrecht, Netherlands

Military Cemetery Grebbeberg

1. Blauwe Kamer – Grebbeberg loop from Rhenen

2. Blauwe Kamer – Grebbeberg loop from Opheusden

3. Grebbeberg – Winding path loop from Rhenen

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