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Date |
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| 1 | 1922 | - 1922: Salt is found when drilling for natural resources in Winterswijk.
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| 2 | 1927 | - 1927: Rev. Stegeman from Aalten holds a speech in Amsterdam, which is transmitted by radio. In Aalten, tickets are sold to hear the show for 15 cents.
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| 3 | 1932 | - 1932: A chalk quarry is established in the Vosseveld area near Winterswijk.
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| 4 | 1933 | - 1933: Winterswijk gets their own department of the Nationalist Socialist party, the NSB. This party later becomes the major ally of the nazi party.
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| 5 | 1934 | - 1934: The Bredevoort railroad station was decommissioned.
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| 6 | 1936 | - 1936: In a flare of anti-semitical violence, Jewish Winterswijker Mozes Kan is molested in his home.
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| 7 | 1940 | - 1940: Start of the German occupation.
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| 8 | 1943 | - 1943: Hundreds of Jewish inhabitants are deported to the concentration camps in eastern Europe where most of them are murdered.
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| 9 | 1944 | - 1944: Several members of the Winterswijk resistance are arrested and killed.
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| 10 | 1945 | - 1945: Tanks battle fiercely in the hamlet of Woold. The Achterhoek is liberated from the German occupation.
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| 11 | 1949 | - 1949: The German town of Süderwick is annexed to Dinxperlo and becomes Dutch territory.
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Achterhoek Ancestors
1920 - 1954 (34 years)