The water level drops

In the face of inevitable defeat the German Wehrmacht flooded the Wieringermeerpolder on April 11, 1945. By blowing up a portion of the dyke a body of water of 700 million cubic metres poured into the reclaimed land. This film shows the damage the wind and water - but mainly the swell – made to the newly build buildings. It also shows the construction of a new part of the dyke around the gap, the …