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Monumento
The first phase of Operation Mallard entailed crossing the northern part of the Wessem-Nederweert Canal by the Scottish ...
The monument 'Our Lady of Banneux' in Tegelen (municipality of Venlo) is a sculpted corner statue of a female figure. Th...
In Nederweert, a big liberation celebration was organised from 9 to 12 June 1945, with a parade in which more than 1500 ...
Fortificazione
The castle of Blitterswijck was destroyed by acts of war at the end of the Second World War....
The 'Norfolk monument' in Venray was erected in memory of the soldiers of the 1st battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regimen...
The monument at the former Vredeskerk in Venray was erected in memory of all soldiers (American, Canadian, German, Engli...
Campo di battaglia
Riley's Gully (literally: the trench of the British commander Peter Riley) was the place at the Vlootbeek where heavy fi...
The war memorial is located behind the Molenhoek brewery and keeps the memory of the temporary American military cemeter...
Luogo di interesse
The house of the former Yugoslavian embassy was erected during the Nazi era and also served as the headquarter of the Re...
The Großdeutschland Guard Battalion played a key role in the suppression of the 20 July 1944 plot and was stationed in t...
In September of 1944, Operation Market Garden was launched. Though most of the fighting took place in and around Nijmege...
The former Tienakker convent in Wijchen served as a headquarters for the Allied troops during WWII and was even visited ...
Museo
Jacques (Jac) Maris is known for the many memorials and monuments he designed, but what many people do not know is that ...
Storia
The Netherlands is known as a country of water. The Dutch have been fighting against and trying to control the water for...
Heerlen's iconic glass palace, designed in the 1930s by architect Fritz Peutz, has a turbulent war history. The top floo...
Heerlen has not suffered much from the violence of war. There was a clear reason why the Americans set up a rest centre ...
On 9 October 1938, Hitler announced a new expansion of the Westwall. Previously, industrial cities such as Aachen and Sa...
A large part of present-day Landgraaf was only just able to benefit from the fast American advance through South Limburg...
On Sunday 24 September 1944, the approximately 30,000 inhabitants of the still occupied eastern part of Kerkrade were or...
American troops were able to enter the still occupied part of evacuated Kerkrade on 5 October 1944 without encountering ...
Members of the Red Horse, an American reconnaissance unit of the 113th Cavalry Group, had been spotted at the casemate o...
At the beginning of the Second World War, a 360-cubic metre concrete bunker vault was excavated deep into St Peter's Mou...
The Henric van Veldekecollege, a Catholic boys' school for the well-off, was located at Aylvalaan in Maastricht until 19...
One day before liberation on 13 September 1944, eleven Belgian resistance fighters and an escaped Russian forced laboure...
