1942 result(s)
Monument
On the liberation day of Banholt, 13 September 1944, another joyful event took place in the village. A resistance plaque...
Musée
The Historical Collection of Ground-Based Air Defence (Historische Collectie Grondgebonden Luchtverdediging, HCGLVD) was...
Champ de Bataille
When the final Canadian-British attack on the German positions at the Sloedam was successful, the advance to Middelburg ...
Histoire
At the end of April 1945, German soldiers opened a cupboard on the farm of the Dijkema family on Geefsweersterweg betwee...
La branche du Musée impérial de la Guerre située à Londres propose plusieurs expositions relatant l’histoire des soldats...
Audiospot
Before the War, Jan van Hoof was active in the Scouts and he naturally gravitated to the Resistance. He spent months obs...
During the war, Jakob (Jaap) Klok ended up in the resistance in Dantumadeel, where he played an important role. At the t...
Lieu d'intêret
Les îles Anglo-Normandes ont été les seules îles britanniques à être occupées par les forces allemandes pendant la Secon...
The village of Scharsterbrug and the bridge over the Scharster Rhine were important to the German defenders. Both were s...
Les îles Anglo-Normandes ont été le seul territoire britannique à être occupé par les forces allemandes pendant la Secon...
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...
On 12 April, a Staghound of the Royal Canadian Dragoons drove into an ambush at Oldeholtpade. Private Wilfred Berry was ...
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...
Out of fear of being arrested by the Canadians, a group of SD and SS men fled from Groningen to Zoutkamp on 15 April 194...
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...
On the 17th of September 1944, countless parachutists and gliders with military equipment landed here in Groesbeek. Oper...
In 1945, Operation Veritable was the beginning of the so-called Rhineland Offensive. The Allies wanted to attack the Ger...
From October 1944, the parsonage of Gasselte is the headquarters of the National Sozialistisches Kraftfahr Corps (NSKK)....
Hoogeveen was liberated on 10 and 11 April 1945. The majority of the area was liberated by Belgian SAS troops, coming fr...
Vecteurs de Mémoire
Septembre 1944 : L'opération Market Garden, l'offensive alliée, est en cours. Les chemins de deux pilotes de planeurs se...
In 1941, Kruitwagen, owner of the Panoven brickworks, refuses to supply bricks to the Germans for the Atlantic Wall and ...