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Monument
Several reconnaissance operations were carried out in January 1945 to prepare for the Rhineland offensive. Sadly, not ev...
Le monument situé sur la Voerweg commémore la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et la 1ère armée canadienne qui était st...
En 1998, des érables ont été plantés à côté de l'actuel musée de la liberté en souvenir des libérateurs canadiens de Gro...
Histoire
After November 1944, the front line near Nijmegen did not move for several months, so many soldiers spent Christmas in t...
Dans le cadre des 70 ans de commémoration de l'opération Market Garden, une douzaine de panneaux photos ont été placés à...
Siebrand Paapst (1928-2016) is taken hostage by the Germans on April 27, 1945. Together with 25 villagers he spends a fr...
Lieu d'intêret
The end of Fliegerhorst Havelte can be pinpointed very precisely: a barrage of bombs dropped on 24 March 1945 left nothi...
A memorial to the nearly entirely exterminated Jewish population of Meppel. ...
Dolle Dinsdag Dolle Dinsdag (Mad Tuesday) fell on 5 September 1944. At the German airfield Havelte, Jewish workers were ...
Hoogeveen was liberated on 10 and 11 April 1945. The majority of the area was liberated by Belgian SAS troops, coming fr...
As the Belgian SAS entered the area with heavily armed jeeps on the east side of the Hoogeveen municipality and purged i...
Pesse is situated at a junction of roads that cuts across Drenthe from north to south, with another connecting road to M...
The route along the Oranje Locks was not the easiest for the Canadian liberators. Close to Halerbrug, Oranje and Hijken,...
This residential house served as an SD prison in the last year of the war, where many were severely abused, which culmin...
By early April 1945, the Americans, British and Canadians had moved forward by some distance. American units had already...
The Canadian troops were looking to cross Drenthe with a sizeable army as quickly as possible, with the aim of liberatin...
Frederik (57) and his son Jantinus (23) Klaassens are buried in Grolloo cemetery. Klaassens ran the café in Schoonloo, b...
On 22 January 1945, members of the 'Sipo und SD' killed twenty men on the Woudweg in Dokkum. It was the largest executio...
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...
After the Allied airborne troops were defeated at Arnhem in September 1944, it took until March 1945 for the Allies to g...
The Irish Regiment of Canada fought in Gelderland in April and then spent a short time in Friesland to guard the Zuiderz...
On Sunday 15 April 1945 - the day that is considered Friesland's liberation day - here in Kiesterzijl, German gunfire ki...
