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Audiospot
On 18 and 19 September 1944, unprecedented fierce fighting is raging in these woods. German troops are trying to prevent...
By the end of September 1944, Operation Market Garden was over and the war had moved to the region east of Nijmegen and ...
After a week of fighting it became clear that Operation Market Garden had failed. At that point many British and Polish ...
Cimetière
Le cimetière militaire du Commonwealth de Cassino se trouve à 139 km au sud-est de Rome. Il abrite les dépouilles de 4 2...
La nécropole contient 464 sépultures de soldats de l’Armée française qui, sous le commandement du général de Lattre de T...
Histoire
Saint-Raphaël fut un foyer de Résistance important durant toute la guerre, sous l’impulsion de combattants de conviction...
On the 1st of November 1944, Chaplain Kock enthusiastically welcomes his Canadian liberators, while German prisoners-of-...
Monument
Le 27 août 1944, dix-neuf membres des Forces Françaises de l’Intérieur menés par le capitaine Eugène Corette participa...
Dès l'annonce des débarquements du Jour J en Normandie, le chef de la Gestapo décide d'exécuter tous les prisonniers all...
On 6 April 1945, the first Canadian scouts had been spotted in the northern part of the Netherlands. The population was ...
During WW2, the city of Roermond suffered greatly under the German occupation and the efforts of the Allies to liberate ...
Musée
A special museum has been established at the Johan Willem Friso Barracks in Assen: the Stoottroepen Museum displays the ...
Dans l’après-midi du lundi 18 septembre 1944, une patrouille commandée par le capitaine Killick se dirige vers le pont f...
Autre
Already in the early Middle Ages, Lublin was a significant political, religious and economic centre. Its importance was ...
The Allied advance through the Netherlands comes to a halt when Operation Market Garden fails. The heavily undermanned B...
All of Assen had already been liberated, except for the Groningerweg bridge. Canadian war volunteer Clem Ervine decided ...
Deelen airfield was one of the biggest German airfields in the Netherlands. Few people know that there are some other im...
The beginning and end of the war in Assen played out similarly for Thijs Poorta, only involving different players. ...
Museum Vliegbasis Deelen is located on the road from Hoenderloo to Schaarsbergen. The former air base is a former German...
During the Roman Ghetto round-up, the Fatebenefratelli hospital hid a number of Jews to prevent them from being be loade...
Saturday, 16 December 1944 marks the beginning of the last major offensive on the Western front – „The battle of the Bul...
Fortification
Le château Dambricourt (aussi connu sous le nom de château d'Hallines) fût le poste de commandement du Festung Pi Sta...
Lieu d'intêret
Situated North-East of the city centre, Villa Torlonia was the official residence of Mussolini. Under the villa, an airt...
Tens of thousands helped dig the Assener Stellung in the last year of the war to stop the Allied tanks, but the arduous,...
