These conscripted troops trained to operate as the ‘left-hand’ northern flank of NORTHAG, within the 1 Netherland Corps and coordinating with CENTAG’s Germans, Americans and Canadians to their right flank and LANDJUT’s Danes and other forces on their left They worked with other Western European nations to rebuild and support each other against future threats and are a founding state in NATO.Īs a strong part of the modern defence of Europe against the Soviet menace, they forward staged their troops in the FRG, especially their best-maintained brigades. To make up for a quiet political failure and slow national strangulation in the Second World War, the Dutch nation was very keen to not allow future generations of Europeans to have to suffer in turn.
