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Fortification
On June 2, 1940, the coffee cups on the table were shaking in many households of the inhabitants of Delfzijl. For the fi...
Monument
À Gdańsk, le monument dédié à « Inka » rend hommage à l’héroïne polonaise Danuta Siedzikówna et à tous ceux qui ont part...
Histoire
On the night of ½ May 1945, Private Wilson Lewis Lemmon of the Pioneer Platoon was attached to the D Company of the Iris...
Lieu d'intêret
A plaque on the façade of the Palazzo Littorio in Camaiore is dedicated to the people who were killed in the August 1944...
Musée
The Bunkermuseum Schlei on the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog is housed in a bunker used during the Second World War by...
Au début du mois de mai 1945, le Schulenburgring 2 devint un lieu important de l'histoire mondiale. En effet, c'est dans...
After his release from prison camp Wilhelmshaven, resistance fighter and helmsman of the Abel Tasman Henk Brouwers from ...
Le 24 mars 1944, les forces allemandes ont exécuté 335 prisonniers italiens dans les grottes d'Ardeatine (Fosse Ardeatin...
Le 6 septembre 1944, des unités de la Garde britannique parviennent à établir une tête de pont de l'autre côté du canal ...
The South Africans entered Prato on 6 September 1944, and on the same morning some partisan formations also reached the ...
The Allies brought freedom. But in return they also took something with them. According to Lawyer Vos from Appingedam: '...
By 16 April, most of Friesland had been liberated. But some important targets of the Canadians had not yet been achieved...
Audiospot
October 1944: As the occupying forces fired V1 and V2 rockets at the port of Antwerp, many of the flying bombs landed pr...
In autumn 1944, the arms drops began. There were about 25 of them in the province of Friesland in the period before libe...
In this monumental town hall complex, the past comes alive in special collection presentations and notable key figures, ...
On their way through Friesland, the Canadians were severely hampered by the fact that the Germans had blown up a lot of ...
Major Jean Prosper Gautier was the commander of the Squadron of the Royal Canadian Dragoons that entered Dokkum with its...
On the day of the Dokkum’s liberation, a deadly tragedy unfolded at the southern access bridge. The Allies were approach...
The liberation of northeast Friesland was not achieved without a struggle. The Dutch Domestic Armed Forces (NBS) and Can...
On 22 January 1945, members of the 'Sipo und SD' killed twenty men on the Woudweg in Dokkum. It was the largest executio...
When the Allied advance came to a standstill in Arnhem during the failed Operation Market Garden of September 1944, the ...
Near Haskerhorne, a plane dropped valuable cargo on the night of 1 to 2 November 1944: two secret agents, Peter Tazelaar...
In the evening of 14 April, a Royal Canadian Dragoons patrol reached the area around the village which is now called Dam...
"That morning lasted longer than ever. I did nothing but stand at the window and talk. Down in the park a man told me th...