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Audiospot
In the middle of January 1945, the fight for liberation broke out in the Rur region. After a sequence of ferocious battl...
Monumento
In the summer of 1937, the SS constructed Buchenwald Concentration Camp on the Ettersberg near Weimar. After the Dachau ...
Luogo di interesse
Palazzo Venezia, a Roma, fu il luogo scelto da Mussolini per la sede del governo fascista. Egli decise di utilizzare com...
Storia
The bridge over the Linthorst-Homan Canal had been blown up, so the Canadian liberators had to take a different way on t...
Christmas 1944. Part of Zuid-Limburg is liberated. Roermond has become a city in the front line. The city has largely be...
Campo di battaglia
The Polish troops took up positions in and around Driel, including at the predecessor of this post-war farm, the Baarska...
On Tuesday morning 19 September, five Dutch civilians are led into the depot of Van Gend en Loos at Bakkerstraat 63-64 b...
After the German resistance was forcibly crushed in Hooghalen, the Canadian troops moved into Assen. In the preceding da...
Museo
The Drenthe village of Nieuwlande, only 30 kilometres as the crow flies from the former Westerbork camp, has a rich wart...
In December 1944, a group of Dutch prisoners escaped from the labour camp near the German town of Rees and made it to th...
The Netherlands' Internal Armed Forces (Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten - BS) prepared to take over as soon as the Germans w...
Nel palazzo del Laterano, a Roma, trovarono rifugio clandestinamente, tra il 1943 e il 1944, numerosi esponenti dell'ant...
The hamlet of De Horst near Groesbeek is just a stone's throw away from the German border. During the airborne landings ...
Only a bronze plaque today tells passers-by that a bolder along the Stationsweg in Zuidlaren has a story to tell. It is ...
The city of Rome survived the German occupation in an atmosphere of terror, deprivation, and cold. People began to raid ...
Originariamente costruito durante la Prima guerra mondiale, RAF Spitalgate, o Spittlegate, ricevette il nome di “stazi...
Cimitero
Situato vicino Cassino in località Caira, il Cimitero tedesco occupa una intera collina, con le spoglie di oltre 20.000 ...
After some fierce fighting, both sides needed time to regroup, to bury the dead and tend to the wounded. During a break ...
Zuidlaren was liberated by Canadians on 13 April 1945. As the bridge between Tynaarlo and Zuidlaren had been blown up by...
Anton van der Waals was hiding out as Joop van der Meer in a cottage in Midlaren. He had sent hundreds of resistance fig...
To hinder the Allied advance, the German occupier had constructed the so-called Assener Stellung in the northern part of...
Towards the end of the war, French paratroopers were dropped in Drenthe. About 30 of them ended up around Zuidlaren. An ...
The Polish Cross at Axel commemorates the Polish soldiers who died on September 17, 1944 while forcing a crossing over t...
