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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...
Monumento
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...
Audiospot
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...
Storia
The world-famous dancer, singer and actress Josephine Baker performed here at Café van Lin in Overasselt on 4 and 5 Dece...
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...
Museo
Museum Remember September 1944 wants to preserve the memory of the battles that took place during Operation Market Garde...
The collection of the Stichting Oorlog in de Peel consists of utensils and uniforms from the war period from May 1940, t...
The Monument voor Belgische Militairen was erected in memory of 25 men of the Piron Brigade who fell in the vicinity of ...
Durante l’occupazione tedesca, La Rocquaise fu la dimora delle sorellastre francesi Lucy Schwob e Suzanne Malherbe. Eran...
The Venlo synagogue was located on the Maasvlakte from its opening in 1865 until its demolition in 1965. Before that, se...
Vector of Memory
On Sunday, 17 September 1944, the inhabitants of Vught look up to the sky filled with excitement and with their mouths o...
Guidato da Leslie Huelin e Norman Le Brocq, il Partito Comunista di Jersey (JCP) si riunì per la prima volta alla fine d...
Vasily Marempolsky era un lavoratore schiavo ucraino deportato dai tedeschi nell’isola di Jersey durante l’occupazione. ...
Questo complesso di tunnel fu costruito dal Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD), il corpo ausiliario della Germania nazista, e dal...
La Bäckerei (il forno) dell’Organizzazione Todt, costruito a Goose Green Marsh, Beaumont, fa ora parte di un complesso r...
Il programma di fortificazione tedesco puntava sull’efficiente estrazione di sabbia e aggregati dalle spiagge e dalle ca...
La sede dell’Organizzazione Todt a Jersey si trovava a Saint Helier, in Midvale Road 17. Anche la casa adiacente, al num...
Dal 1942 al 1943, parte del castello di Elisabetta fu trasformato in campo di detenzione per disertori militari. I lavor...
