How to Flee the Gestapo

If you’ve seen the photos of Dutch-Paris fugitives crossing the Pyrenees into Spain in my book or on the WW2TV talk, you may be wondering why on earth those young […]

During my talk about Dutch-Paris on WW2TV someone asked if Vichy patrolled the Franco-Spanish border as tightly at the Germans did. The answer is no, but possibly only because Vichy […]

Following the last post about the Swiss border, here’s a story about some Dutch Jews who Dutch-Paris helped get into Switzerland. They were especially resourceful people who had managed to […]

Some of the people who watched me talk about Dutch-Paris on WW2TV when it was first broadcast asked some interesting questions in the side comments. I couldn’t address them during […]

In earlier posts I described Dutch-Paris’s contributions to the iconic WWII of the Engelandspiel (Operation North Pole) and the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III. Today let’s look at the […]

As I mentioned in an earlier blog, Dutch-Paris played small roles in three iconic WWII stories: the Engelandspiel (Operation North Pole); The Great Escape and the escape from the POW […]

In our last post we left the Polish captain turned resister Wyssogota on a deportation train heading to the concentration camps in the Third Reich in April 1943. Never one […]

It’s the time of year when we’re thinking of the liberation of France, Belgium and the southern part of the Netherlands. But 2021, sadly, is not the year to go […]

I am equally pleased to let you know of the publication of another book involving Dutch-Paris: Luck through Adversity: The Memoir of a Dutchman’s Flight to Freedom through the Dutch-Paris […]

Continuing on with our discussion of the use of the railways by escape lines, we should recognize the railway men who belonged to Dutch-Paris. There were two that I know […]