Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten

Men of the Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten, armed with rifles and STENs, form a guard of honor for a visit by Prince Bernhard, April 1945.

The Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (BS; English: 'Domestic Armed Forces'), fully the Nederlandse Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (NBS), was a government-sanctioned union of Dutch resistance groups during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II, which had hardly cooperated until then.


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