World War II still affects today’s world. On today’s geopolitical relations, on global military relations. It is the enabler of decades of alliances and connections. But also of decades of divisions and struggles.
The Battle of Overloon had a direct impact on the course of World War II fighting on the Western Front. And at the same time had an unimaginable impact on the inhabitants of this area that became frontline territory overnight.
The further time moves on, the further into the past the Battle of Overloon will become. And chances are that this battle, which has as one of its nicknames The Forgotten Battle, will actually be able to fade from the memory of future generations.
But the Battle of Overloon is not just about the facts and figures of that battle in September and October 1944.
It is also about the lives of the individual soldiers in that battle. Of the heroes who fought for our freedom in Overloon, buried in the war graves in the war cemetery, the heroes who gave their lives for our freedom here.
It is also about the civilian victims during this period.
It is also about the thousands of evacuees in this region who suddenly had to flee the violence of war and wait in fear to see how their lives would go on.
It is also about the people who lost everything they had during this struggle.
It is all these facts, all these memories, all these stories that make the Battle of Overloon must never be forgotten.
Together they form the chronicles of the Battle of Overloon. The Overloon War Chronicles.
