Liberation Route Arnhem and Wageningen

Operation Market Garden is probably the most famous battle of the Second World War. The Battle of Arnhem from September 17 to 26, 1944 was the final chapter. Due to a combination of bad luck and coincidence, the Allies were unable to capture the Rhine Bridge in Arnhem, which you cycle over during this route. When it turned out that Market Garden had failed, many paratroopers found themselves on the wrong side of the Rhine. Mainly due to the deployment of Polish paratroopers led by General Sosabowski, around 2,400 paratroopers managed to escape near the Westerbouwing. Ultimately, in May 1945, Germany's capitulation was signed in Hotel de Wereld in Wageningen. The Airborne Museum Hartenstein, the former headquarters of the British, together with the information center about the Battle of Arnhem Airborne at the Bridge, tells the whole story.