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Monument
Le Mémorial de la Shoah se trouve dans le quartier du Marais où vivait, au début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, une impo...
Près des Champs-Élysées, à Paris, se dresse une statue du général Charles de Gaulle. Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale,...
Musée
Le musée de l’Ordre de la Libération, à Paris, est consacré à l’histoire des Forces françaises libres, le gouvernement e...
Créé en 1905, le musée de l’Armée de Paris est l’un des plus grands musées consacrés à l’histoire et l’art militaire au ...
Audiospot
The population of Millingen did not think for one moment that they too might have to evacuate their homes. This meant th...
Known locally as the land of wind and water, this region has great stretches of marshlands and rivers. If you head towar...
Bridges are of utmost importance for the allied advance. The Molenhook bridge, as the Americans refer to the old bridge ...
October 1944: As the occupying forces fired V1 and V2 rockets at the port of Antwerp, many of the flying bombs landed pr...
Autumn 1944: also known as the 'frontline period'. The immense American air landings of Operation Market Garden had mean...
After the failure of the Battle of Arnhem, the Over-Betuwe region becomes the frontline. German commander Harmel turns D...
The final years of the war are tough on the people of Huissen. Hundreds are killed and wounded during heavy allied bombi...
Vecteurs de Mémoire
Septembre 1944 : L'opération Market Garden, l'offensive alliée, est en cours. Les chemins de deux pilotes de planeurs se...
When the Allied advance came to a standstill in Arnhem during the failed Operation Market Garden of September 1944, the ...
In April 1945 the population of the Western part of the Netherlands was starving. The Allies decided to negotiate food a...
In 1941, Kruitwagen, owner of the Panoven brickworks, refuses to supply bricks to the Germans for the Atlantic Wall and ...
The National Canadian War Memorial in Apeldoorn is called 'The Man with Two Hats'. Ottawa, Canada, has an identical stat...
Fortification
L'île de Sercq, l'une des îles de Guernesey, a été occupée par les forces allemandes en 1940 pendant une période de près...
Lieu d'intêret
On 9 May 1945, St. Helier Harbour was a hive of activity, with many civilians heading down to watch the magnificent even...
The Waalsdorpervlakte is located in the Meijendel dune area near The Hague. During World War Two, more than 250 people, ...
An estimated 1,800 Dutch citizens, the so-called Engelandvaarders, attempted to escape to England during World War Two. ...
Until 1943, Rabbijn Maarsenplein, later renamed after one of the victims, was the heart of The Hague's Jewish quarter. T...
The Jachtslot de Mookerheide estate is very attractive, a fact already recognised at the beginning of the previous centu...
In October 1944, Canadian private Patrick Wright is involved in fierce fighting in the vicinity of Huijbergen. He is onl...
In September 1944, after four years of relative peace, the villages of Overasselt and Nederasselt became the site of the...
