Old diaries tell the story of the bombings of the Bunnik railway bridge

Old diaries tell the story of the bombings of the

Planes, shooting and bombs. Bombs, just like that. That’s what’s so bad, and what scares us.” In September 1944, Bunnik student Geertje Roubos did not understand why her village was hit. The railway bridge over the Kromme Rijn had already been hit a few times and a bomb also fell “in the middle of an orchard” near Vechten.

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