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Audiospot
In December 1944, a group of Dutch prisoners escaped from the labour camp near the German town of Rees and made it to th...
Historia
The bridge over the Linthorst-Homan Canal had been blown up, so the Canadian liberators had to take a different way on t...
Pomnik
The Netherlands' Internal Armed Forces (Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten - BS) prepared to take over as soon as the Germans w...
Miejsce zainteresowania
In the Lateran Palace, in Rome, many Italian antifascists and politicians found shelter between 1943 and 1944. After the...
The hamlet of De Horst near Groesbeek is just a stone's throw away from the German border. During the airborne landings ...
Only a bronze plaque today tells passers-by that a bolder along the Stationsweg in Zuidlaren has a story to tell. It is ...
The city of Rome survived the German occupation in an atmosphere of terror, deprivation, and cold. People began to raid ...
Lotnisko to, pierwotnie zbudowane w czasie I wojny światowej, w 1928 roku otrzymało nazwę „Stacja RAF Grantham”, a w 1...
Cmentarz
Located close to Cassino in the village of Caira, the German war cemetery occupies an entire hill, hosting more than 20,...
After some fierce fighting, both sides needed time to regroup, to bury the dead and tend to the wounded. During a break ...
Zuidlaren was liberated by Canadians on 13 April 1945. As the bridge between Tynaarlo and Zuidlaren had been blown up by...
Anton van der Waals was hiding out as Joop van der Meer in a cottage in Midlaren. He had sent hundreds of resistance fig...
To hinder the Allied advance, the German occupier had constructed the so-called Assener Stellung in the northern part of...
Towards the end of the war, French paratroopers were dropped in Drenthe. About 30 of them ended up around Zuidlaren. An ...
Polski Krzyż w Axel upamiętnia polskich żołnierzy, którzy zginęli 17 września 1944 r. podczas przeprawy przez kanał Axel...
On 18 and 19 September 1944, unprecedented fierce fighting is raging in these woods. German troops are trying to prevent...
By the end of September 1944, Operation Market Garden was over and the war had moved to the region east of Nijmegen and ...
After a week of fighting it became clear that Operation Market Garden had failed. At that point many British and Polish ...
Cmentarz Wojenny w Cassino znajduje się 139 kilometrów na południowy wschód od Rzymu. Znajduje się na nim 4271 mogił żoł...
Nekropolia zawiera 464 groby żołnierzy armii francuskiej, którzy pod dowództwem generała de Lattre de Tassigny wylądowal...
Saint-Raphaël było głównym ośrodkiem ruchu oporu przez całą wojnę, działającym z rozmachem i szerokim spektrum bojownikó...
On the 1st of November 1944, Chaplain Kock enthusiastically welcomes his Canadian liberators, while German prisoners-of-...
On 27 August 1944, nineteen members of the French Forces of the Interior were executed by German troops in the commune o...
Dowiedziawszy się o lądowaniach D-Day w Normandii, naczelnik Gestapo w Caen wydał decyzję o przeprowadzeniu egzekucji na...
