Oct 20, 2021
4 min read
The Tomb of the Unseen Patient
Out of sight, out of mind.
Cloaked in early morning darkness, German paratroopers dropped from the heavens like murderous locusts, their stealthy descent betrayed by the roar of the Luftwaffe airplanes that had disgorged them over the Dutch landscape.
It was May 10, 1940. Contemptuous of the Netherlands’ desperate efforts to remain neutral in the rapidly expanding war in Europe, the…
