Apeldoorn, Holten
Oosterbeek
Hartenstein Hotel Airborne Museum
The Hartenstein Hotel dates from the mid-eighteenth, when it was a house in the middle of a country park.
After the death of the original owner it was first used as a nursing home, and then became a hotel when the site was bought by the Renkum/Oosterbeek council as late as 1942.
Following the landing of 1st Airborne Division on 17th September 1944, Major General R.E.Urquhart established his divisional headquarters here, and as the battle developed it was also used as a defensive position, aid post and signals HQ.
At the heart of the Oosterbeek perimeter, the battered and wounded survivors of 1st Airborne surrendered to the Germans on 25th September.