The film then mentions that the Allied victory at Walcheren Causeway opened to Allied forces a sea route to the port of Antwerp and helped contribute to the Allied liberation of the Netherlands on. Teuntje walks away as the town is liberated. Sinclair and other Allied soldiers find Teuntje next to Marinus' body. A grateful Teuntje tends to him, but Marinus dies of his injuries. Near the end of the battle, Marinus kills a German soldier attempting to execute Teuntje. During the battle, Sinclair and Marinus cross paths but the two men decide to let each other go.
Both sides sustain heavy casualties but the Allied forces ultimately prevail. Marinus takes part in the German defence of Walcheren island while Sinclair participates in the Allied assault. Janna is shot and mortally wounded, but makes it to the Allied lines before dying. Prior to the Battle of Walcheren Causeway, Teuntje is captured while helping Janna escape on a boat with the photographs and map.
Henk, exhausted and unable to swim, is eventually left behind by Sinclair, who reaches the Allied line and joins Canadian Army forces advancing on Walcheren island. They are then attacked by German soldiers, and Turner is killed. They take shelter in a house but are abandoned by the other members of their unit. They decide to head for the Canadian lines. After wading through the marshes, they stop at a farmhouse where they meet a Dutch farmer who informs them that Operation Market Garden was a failure and that the Canadian Army have crossed the Belgian border and entered Holland. Turner is wounded during the crash-landing.
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She and her best friend, a Resistance member named Janna, are tasked with smuggling Dirk's photographs and the map to the Allied forces advancing on Walcheren island.Įlsewhere, Glider Pilot Regiment Sergeant Will Sinclair, Captain Tony Turner, and Free Dutch Forces soldier Henk Sneijder crash-land in a flooded estuary in Zeeland after their Airspeed Horsa glider is hit by anti-aircraft fire during Operation Market Garden. Teuntje steals a tidal map of Sloe Channel from the mayor's office which shows a deep section of the channel that would allow Allied forces to safely cross. Teuntje learns that Dirk had been covertly photographing German artillery positions along the Scheldt river. As punishment, he is selected to be part of the firing squad lineup for Dirk's execution and sent back to combat duty.Īfter Dirk's death, Teuntje is drawn into the Resistance. Marinus tries to pass the news secretly to Teuntje but is spotted by a German officer who reports him to Berghof.
Despite initial assurances that Dirk will be treated leniently, Berghof ultimately orders that Dirk be executed along with the other Resistance members without exception. He sympathises with Teuntje and her father as they attempt to negotiate a lighter sentence for Dirk in Berghof's office. Marinus grows increasingly disillusioned with the Nazis' heavy-handed tactics including the execution of civilian hostages. Meanwhile, Marinus van Staveren, a Dutch volunteer in the Waffen-SS Division Das Reich, is reassigned from battle in Narva, Estonia on the Eastern Front to serve as a secretary and translator for the German commandant in Zeeland, Oberst Berghof. Dirk is arrested for attacking a passing German convoy, and is tortured into revealing the names of other Resistance members. While she and her father (a medical doctor) avoid choosing sides, her younger brother Dirk is a member of the Dutch Resistance. Teuntje Visser works in the office of the collaborationist mayor. The film is set in German-occupied Zeeland in September 1944 following the Normandy landings.
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