Editing Otterlo (section)

== History ==
=== Second World War ===
During the first four years of the war, Otterlo was relatively unharmed. The local resistance made use of a secret telephone connection from an electrician's house, which in 2021 still stands at the dorpsstraat, behind barber Prophitius, to communicate with the allies below the river [[Rhine]] (1944/1945). During the war, multiple families hid Jewish people from the Germans. One location was betrayed however, resulting in a raid in 1944 at the house 'De Lindenhof' at the Hoenderlooseweg.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Home {{!}} slagomotterlo.nl|url=https://slagomotterlo.nl/|access-date=2021-05-11|website=slagomotterlo.nl}}</ref> 

During the liberation of Netherlands in April 1945, Otterlo was the center of a fierce and bloody battle between German and British and Canadian soldiers. See the [[Battle of Otterlo]].