Airborne City Tour Arnhem
Airborne City Tour Arnhem
This walk takes you through the centre of Arnhem and makes the Battle of Arnhem (September 1944) come alive through 25 'listening spots'.
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It is September 1944. Arnhem has been occupied by Nazi Germany for four years. The Allied advance has begun, but the front is far away in France. The raging war seems to pass Arnhem by.
War in Arnhem
Then Operation Market Garden is launched. The greatest airborne landing operation the world has ever seen. Allied airborne troops try to capture the bridges across the major rivers in one fell swoop. Including the bridges at Arnhem. All of a sudden, the city becomes a grim front-line area. Fierce battles are fought from house to house. After the fighting, almost 100,000 people leave their houses in a great hurry. Operation Market Garden comes to a standstill, and Arnhem is left behind as a ghost town.
Want to know more?
Do you want to know more about Arnhem's war history? Learn more about the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden. Would you like to discover more hiking routes about Operation Market Garden? You can find them on the Airborne hiking route theme page.
- Distance
- 6.7 km
Sights on this route
Starting point
Jansbinnensingel 19
6811 Arnhem
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Listen: Pastoorstraat
Before the Second World War, Arnhem was home to a large Jewish community. Following the German invasion in 1940, the suffering for this section of the population began in Arnhem too. It started...Read more
Listen: bakkerstraat
On this spot, there used to be an office for the Van Gend en Loos parcel service. Inside that office, five civilian inhabitants of Arnhem were lined up against this wall and shot dead by German...Read more
Listen: gele rijdersplein
In the summer of 1944, Arnhem was a city under occupation. Even after the Germans entered the city in 1940, its population of approximately 90,000 residents had still experienced very little of...Read more
Listen: Stationsplein
You do have to watch out for the traffic a little bit, but even so, it is safe enough to walk around here now. However, that was not the case in the winter of 1944. At that time, signs had been...Read more
End point
Rijnkade 142
6811 HD Arnhem
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