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Histoire
The liberation of Drenthe had already begun when the Germans killed more than 90 Dutchmen from the infamous Scholtenhuis...
Audiospot
On the 13th of October 1944, the area near this road junction is the scene of violent fighting. British soldiers are kil...
On Friday the 6th of April 1945 Den Ham is liberated. Further north is the Bartels family farm. This no-man's land has n...
Monument
A commemorative plaque on the bridge between Zeegse and Schipborg has been commemorating a special man since 4 May 2021:...
Fortification
The Peel-Raam Line was constructed in the extreme west of North and Central Limburg at the very last moment (1939), to c...
The story of the Jewish people of Meppel, who were among the few to survive. In this case, mother Roosje and daughter Al...
Towards the end of the war, French paratroopers were dropped in Drenthe. About 30 of them ended up around Zuidlaren. An ...
Porta San Paolo is the symbolic place of the first Roman Resistance and, in general, of the voluntary opposition of Ital...
The Dennenoord psychiatric hospital was full of Germans during the war, which had been seized by the occupying forces to...
On the 19th of September 1944 the Allied advance on Nijmegen halted here. The bridges had to be captured (preferably und...
An impressive memorial recalls one of the most wrenching war events in Zuidlaren and the wider area. It's not known as t...
After the start of the Allied airborne landings, the Germans immediately activated their evacuation plan. At Nijmegen Ce...
Soon after crossing the border, British XXXth Army Corps tanks drive into an ambush. The advance starts on September 17,...
Almost nothing remains of De Hattert Castle. Between late September and mid-October 1944, an unprecedented tank battle t...
Cimetière
La région occidentale de Havelland est loin des centres urbains dynamiques et des principaux axes de transport. Depuis l...
The story of the Jewish people of Meppel, who were among the few to survive. Like the Van de Rhoer brothers. ...
Lieu d'intêret
La maison située à l'angle des rues Pippinstraße et Rolandstraße serait l'endroit où le colonel Gerhard Wilck a signé la...
The planners of Operation Market Garden unfortunately overlook a usable airfield here, in particular, because it is very...
When entering the centre of Müncheberg through the Berlin Gate, complete with a historic city wall and gate tower, one w...
In mid-April 1945, the Red Army launched its final offensive: the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation ("Battle of Berli...
Champ de Bataille
West Brabant was liberated by a truly international force: General Crerar's First Canadian Army commanded British, Ameri...
An English Halifax bomber was on its way to Berlin to wreak death and destruction there, just before the start of 1944. ...
During the battle that took place here in October 1944, German soldiers haul three Dutch men from of a bunker on suspici...
D'une part, la gare centrale d'Aix-la-Chapelle était la dernière étape allemande pour de nombreuses personnes fuyant les...
