In front of the entrance to the Wilhelmina Park, where Van Rossem regularly takes a walk, he answers a few questions about the history of the Utrecht region. He’s got them all right, of course. RTV Utrecht has asked the same questions to some travelers on the Stationsplein near Utrecht Central. No one had all the answers right. For example, nobody knew that the place where the Netherlands fought against the Germans for five days in 1940 is the Grebbenberg. “I find that really strange,” says Van Rossem.
Maarten van Rossem is disturbed by a lack of history knowledge: ‘We are careless with our past’
