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     In the book A DUTCH LIBERATION DOWN SOUTH Hans Heltzel wrote down
 the fruit of a ten year long investigation. Here is presented a history of the last year
 of the Second World War in Western Europe, and more specific in and around the
 most southern part of the Netherlands. Infantry fighting, armored vehicles uprooting,
 artillery blasting their way, supporting units maintaining morale and violence of war,
 and civilians having to live under these circumstances; trying to live a normal live
 under these abnormal conditions: the combat zone.