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Represailles door de Duitsers - Putten. Putten, the village without men. 'Do not complain, but bear and pray for force'. Putten is a religious village. The inhabitants know that God will help them.

Represailles door de Duitsers - Putten. Putten, the village without men. Many women in Putten do the work their husbands used to do. The gardens must be cultivated, the children must eat.

Represailles door de Duitsers - Putten. Putten, the village without men. Many women in Putten do the work of their husbands used to do. The gardens must be cultivated, the children must eat.

Represailles door de Duitsers - Putten. Putten, the village without men. The Burgomaster of Putten has one of the most difficult jobs in Holland. There is much to do in his village and the men to do the work, are dead.

Represailles door de Duitsers - Putten. Putten, the village without men. The church of Putten, where the women were driven together by the SS and where they waited anxiously for their fate. They were spared but most of them lost their husbands.

Represailles door de Duitsers - Putten. Putten, the village without men. The youngest man that was arrested by the Germans, had not the least dreadful adventures. He was sixteen in October 1944. After many wanderings he went to Bergen-Belsen, got peritonitis, was badly operated. The wound was neglected. When he was going to another camp, he hid among the dead bodies and escaped attention. He suffers ...

Represailles door de Duitsers - Putten. Putten the village without men (13). This is the village of Putten that lost more than sixhundred of its sons. Nearly all the woman are in black. If they are not, do not think that they did not lose somebody; they simply have no black clothes.

Represailles door de Duitsers - Putten. Putten, the village without men. Hope dies. In the first weeks after the end of the war many women of Putten looked out over the long road. But after a few weeks a dreadful certainty took away all the hope. Now the women look towards the future with new hope. Life is cruel but God must help.

Represailles door de Duitsers - Putten. Putten, the village without men. Photographers were not there when they did their work. Bezaan's woodcut shows what the Nazis did not want to be shown , Putten's men are taken away.

Represailles door de Duitsers - Putten. Putten, the village without men. Immediately after the German defeat posters appeared in several neighboring villages to call men to Putten. The widows mourn their husbands but life goes on and work must be done.

Represailles door de Duitsers - Putten. Putten, the village without men. These are the shoes of the men who were cremated at the concentrationcamp of Neuengamme. Here lie the shoes of many men of Putten. Bezoeker: Het bijschrift klopt niet. Deze schoenen waren niet van slachtoffers van concentratiekamp Neuengamme, maar van Duitse burgers die deze schoenen doneerden voor de oorlogsindustrie.