Waalsdorpervlakte


The Waalsdorpervlakte is an open place in the dune area "Meijendel", where between 250 and 280 members of the Dutch resistance were killed by the Germans during World War II. It is also the site were the top Nazi collaborators were executed.
Following the liberation of the Netherlands, Anton Mussert, the leader of National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands, was executed here on 7 May 1946.
It is one of the main locations where on 4 May "Remembrance of the Dead", a yearly commemoration of victims of World War II and other victims of war, is held.