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Monumento
The Shoah Memorial in Paris city centre can be found in the district of Le Marais, where a large Jewish population lived...
A statue of General Charles de Gaulle stands near the Champs Elysées in Paris, France. During the Second World War, the ...
Museo
The Museum of the Order of the Liberation in Paris documents the history of the Free French Forces, the government-in-ex...
The Army Museum in Paris, created in 1905, is one of the biggest museums of military art and history in the world. Its C...
Audiospot
The population of Millingen did not think for one moment that they too might have to evacuate their homes. This meant th...
Known locally as the land of wind and water, this region has great stretches of marshlands and rivers. If you head towar...
Bridges are of utmost importance for the allied advance. The Molenhook bridge, as the Americans refer to the old bridge ...
October 1944: As the occupying forces fired V1 and V2 rockets at the port of Antwerp, many of the flying bombs landed pr...
Autumn 1944: also known as the 'frontline period'. The immense American air landings of Operation Market Garden had mean...
After the failure of the Battle of Arnhem, the Over-Betuwe region becomes the frontline. German commander Harmel turns D...
The final years of the war are tough on the people of Huissen. Hundreds are killed and wounded during heavy allied bombi...
Vector of Memory
September 1944: Operation Market Garden, the allied offensive, is underway. The paths of two glider pilots cross. They a...
When the Allied advance came to a standstill in Arnhem during the failed Operation Market Garden of September 1944, the ...
In April 1945 the population of the Western part of the Netherlands was starving. The Allies decided to negotiate food a...
In 1941, Kruitwagen, owner of the Panoven brickworks, refuses to supply bricks to the Germans for the Atlantic Wall and ...
The National Canadian War Memorial in Apeldoorn is called 'The Man with Two Hats'. Ottawa, Canada, has an identical stat...
Fortificazione
Sark Island, one of the Islands of Guernsey, was occupied by German forces in 1940 for a period of almost five years. Wh...
Luogo di interesse
On 9 May 1945, St. Helier Harbour was a hive of activity, with many civilians heading down to watch the magnificent even...
The Waalsdorpervlakte is located in the Meijendel dune area near The Hague. During World War Two, more than 250 people, ...
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...
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...
