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During the Second World War, the German army built an anti-aircraft gun emplacement in Lichtaart. This artillery defende...
In September 1943, the newly formed 12th SS Armoured Division installed itself in de Kempen. The group consists of young...
Luogo di interesse
A military hospital in Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Waver. On 4 September 1944, Allied troops liberated Sint-Katelijne-Waver. They i...
Audiospot
Before the War, Jan van Hoof was active in the Scouts and he naturally gravitated to the Resistance. He spent months obs...
The Channel Islands were the only British Isles to be occupied by German forces during WWII. The Islands of Guernsey bec...
The Channel Islands were the only British territory to be occupied by German forces during WWII. Islanders lived under G...
Heerlen enjoyed long periods of prosperity thanks to the mining industry. The city came through the years of war without...
In October 1944, American intelligence officer Hugo Sims and his battalion were ordered to capture as many German prison...
This is where the liberation of Apeldoorn started - here, on the night of the 16th of April 1945. Albert van de Scheur a...
Those who lived through this battle still have very vivid memories of it; the never-ending stream of aircraft, in Septem...
Many of the allied forces ended up in various parts of the Veluwe behind enemy lines due to the failure of Operation Mar...
On the 2nd of October 1944, in reprisal for a resistance group attack, 659 men are arrested. That same evening, about 11...
In the autumn of 1944, the organised underground in Putten is very active. On the 30th of September, eight resistance me...
A resistance attack on the night of the 30th of September 1944, which took to a German soldier's life, was not without c...
By spring 1943, a camp had established itself in the Soerelse forest near Nunspeet as a safe haven for people in hiding....
The town of Doetinchem withstood the war years reasonably well until the very end, when the town was hit by the most sev...
During World War II, only a small proportion of the Dutch population was actively involved in resistance activities. The...
In March 1945, the allied troops crossed the River Rhine in Germany in five different places before returning to the eas...
In the winter of 1944, the front line ran straight through the Betuwe region. The Germans planned on preventing any furt...
After the allied defeat at the Battle of Arnhem in 1944, hundreds of Airborne soldiers went into hiding in the surroundi...
The village of Baak managed to remain more or less intact during the Second World War, and on 2nd April 1945, the last o...
The diary of Rose Jakobs is gripping and enthralling. A young Jewish woman, who went into hiding with her family, first ...
You could call the action of the German frogmen here a genuine act of daring. Putting their own lives in danger, they at...
There was fierce German resistance on and around the bridges of Nijmegen. On the 20th of September 1944, the Allied mili...
