Second day en route

At the beginning of the Great War, October 1914, the Netherlands remained neutral, Belgium suffered heavy shelling from the Germans. A large flow of many thousands of Belgian refugees started in that autumn. The city council of Uden decided on making 35 ha. heathland between Uden and Zeeland available to refugees. Immediately after the decision was made, an entirely wooden barracks village was built in no time, where 10,000 refugees could live. Uden itself had only 6,000 inhabitants at that time.

Today's blip is of a memorial, built on the site where the church stood 100 years ago.
I was impressed and wondered if the residents just accepted the arrival of so many refugees and how that was possible. I'll have to look up more information about this when I get home.