In September 1944, German SS troops were killed by Allied forces on the ramps of a bridge over the Rhine River in the Dutch city of Arnhem, and their bodies were left lying on the bridge over the Rhine River.

 　　During the Western Front of World War II in September 1944, German SS troops were killed by Allied forces on the ramps of a bridge spanning the Rhine River in the Dutch city of Arnhem, and their bodies were left lying on the bridge over the Rhine River.

　　British soldiers attempted to reopen the bridge over the Rhine River as part of the Market Garden operation, but German forces blocked their advance. German reconnaissance vehicles and troop transport vehicles rushed to the road bridge, and the British paratroopers were nearly annihilated by a hail of gunfire. The British paratroopers landed near German positions, suffered heavy casualties from fierce counterattacks, and withdrew on September 26, resulting in the failure of the operation. The surviving British troops began evacuating by boat to the lower Rhine on the night of September 25.

　　　Operation Market Garden, conducted from September 17 to September 25, 1944, aimed to secure bridges over the Rhine River at Arnhem. However, the operation was slowed down and halted by German forces. The British 1st Airborne Division failed to secure the bridges, with 8,000 out of 10,000 troops killed, missing, or captured, and withdrew from the north side of the Rhine River. When the withdrawal order was given, there were insufficient boats, and the German forces captured nearly all of the stranded British troops. Allied forces suffered 15,326 killed and 17,200 wounded. German casualties ranged from approximately 6,315 to 13,300. Arnhem was finally captured by Allied forces in April 1945.