1942 result(s)
Storia
At the end of April 1945, German soldiers opened a cupboard on the farm of the Dijkema family on Geefsweersterweg betwee...
Museo
IWM Londra è una delle cinque sedi dell’Imperial War Museum (Museo imperiale della guerra) in Inghilterra. Comprende mol...
Audiospot
Before the War, Jan van Hoof was active in the Scouts and he naturally gravitated to the Resistance. He spent months obs...
Monumento
During the war, Jakob (Jaap) Klok ended up in the resistance in Dantumadeel, where he played an important role. At the t...
Luogo di interesse
The Channel Islands were the only British Isles to be occupied by German forces during WWII. The Islands of Guernsey bec...
The village of Scharsterbrug and the bridge over the Scharster Rhine were important to the German defenders. Both were s...
The Channel Islands were the only British territory to be occupied by German forces during WWII. Islanders lived under G...
Fortificazione
Sark Island, one of the Islands of Guernsey, was occupied by German forces in 1940 for a period of almost five years. Wh...
On 12 April, a Staghound of the Royal Canadian Dragoons drove into an ambush at Oldeholtpade. Private Wilfred Berry was ...
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...
Out of fear of being arrested by the Canadians, a group of SD and SS men fled from Groningen to Zoutkamp on 15 April 194...
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...
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...
From October 1944, the parsonage of Gasselte is the headquarters of the National Sozialistisches Kraftfahr Corps (NSKK)....
Hoogeveen was liberated on 10 and 11 April 1945. The majority of the area was liberated by Belgian SAS troops, coming fr...
Vector of Memory
September 1944: Operation Market Garden, the allied offensive, is underway. The paths of two glider pilots cross. They a...
In 1941, Kruitwagen, owner of the Panoven brickworks, refuses to supply bricks to the Germans for the Atlantic Wall and ...
In October 1940, General De Gaulle decides to start a parachute regiment: 1st Compagnie d’infanterie de l’air. The soldi...
On 11 September, British reconnaissance forces are already in the area. They race through the Brabant landscape in fast ...
At the end of October 1944, Wagenberg is under heavy artillery fire. There are many casualties among the villagers. A Re...