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Monumento
The monument at the former partisan camp commemorates the history of two hit squads and their German prisoners of war in...
The monument in the hamlet of De Donk commemorates five Scottish soldiers who were killed in the area in the days around...
Jac Maris (1900-1996), grandson of the famous painter from the Hague School Jacob Maris, made the war monument named The...
A garden in Baexem contained the grave of British soldier Donald Barret for almost two years. It was not until October 1...
Luogo di interesse
The river Niers in Gennep presented a difficult natural obstacle at the beginning of the British attack on the Lower Rhi...
Vector of Memory
At 20:00 on 17 September, the 2nd Parachute Battalion under Lieutenant Colonel John Frost reached the Rhine Bridge in Ar...
Fortificazione
Huys Heyen, strategically located on the river Meuse, dates back to the beginning of the 16th century. The castle almost...
Storia
As the experience of the First World War had amply demonstrated, the end of the fighting did not mark the end of the dan...
If we compare the current convent in Ottersum with photos from before 1944, it is clear that about half of the buildings...
In the autumn of 1944, the Château du Petit-Spay in Trois-Ponts took in children who have had to flee the V1 and V2 bomb...
Audiospot
Turney W. Leonard graduates from Texas A&M University in Dallas, Texas, in 1942 and receives a valuable gold ring just l...
In the night of 23-24 March 1945, the Allies launched a major offensive under the name Operation Plunder, crossing the R...
On the 23rd of January 1945, Operation Blackcock, the Allied operation to expel German troops from the Ruhr Triangle bet...
Early in the morning on 12th September 1944, approximately three months after the Normandy landings, the American 30th I...
In the autumn of 1944, the Americans choose the village of Margraten as the final resting place for the men killed in ba...
It is early morning on the 30th of September 1944. The previous day, the Germans had ordered the ships masters in the po...
During the large-scale Allied offensive in February-March 1945, the British occupy Weeze. Many young German soldiers are...
In de Tweede Wereldoorlog is de Sloedam (destijds een dijk van 1.000 meter lang en slechts 45 meter breed) de enige toeg...
De provincie Zeeland en Vlaanderen speelden een sleutelrol aan het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Van 4 september tot...
From 1944, the German war industry has sufficiently evolved to fit jet engines to bombs. This new weapon bombards London...
December 1944. Schouwen-Duiveland is grotendeels geïnundeerd. Een groot deel van de bevolking, behalve uit de Westhoek, ...
On 6 January 1941,President Franklin Delano Roosevelt articulated the Four Freedoms in the State of the Union. In this F...
The 22nd of March 1945. It is sunny in Nijverdal. Not a cloud on the horizon, so to speak. People are fairly accustomed ...
Als onderdeel van de verdedigingswerken rond de Atlantikwall zetten de Duitsers in het voorjaar van 1944 een groot deel ...
