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Pomnik
Several reconnaissance operations were carried out in January 1945 to prepare for the Rhineland offensive. Sadly, not ev...
The monument on the Voerweg commemorates the end of the Second World War and the 1st Canadian Army who were stationed in...
In 1998, Maple trees were planted next to the current Freedom Museum to remember the Canadian liberators of Groesbeek....
Historia
After November 1944, the front line near Nijmegen did not move for several months, so many soldiers spent Christmas in t...
As part of 70 years of commemorating Operation Market Garden, a dozen photo boards have been placed in Groesbeek, showin...
Siebrand Paapst (1928-2016) is taken hostage by the Germans on April 27, 1945. Together with 25 villagers he spends a fr...
Miejsce zainteresowania
The end of Fliegerhorst Havelte can be pinpointed very precisely: a barrage of bombs dropped on 24 March 1945 left nothi...
A memorial to the nearly entirely exterminated Jewish population of Meppel. ...
Dolle Dinsdag Dolle Dinsdag (Mad Tuesday) fell on 5 September 1944. At the German airfield Havelte, Jewish workers were ...
Hoogeveen was liberated on 10 and 11 April 1945. The majority of the area was liberated by Belgian SAS troops, coming fr...
As the Belgian SAS entered the area with heavily armed jeeps on the east side of the Hoogeveen municipality and purged i...
Pesse is situated at a junction of roads that cuts across Drenthe from north to south, with another connecting road to M...
The route along the Oranje Locks was not the easiest for the Canadian liberators. Close to Halerbrug, Oranje and Hijken,...
This residential house served as an SD prison in the last year of the war, where many were severely abused, which culmin...
By early April 1945, the Americans, British and Canadians had moved forward by some distance. American units had already...
The Canadian troops were looking to cross Drenthe with a sizeable army as quickly as possible, with the aim of liberatin...
Frederik (57) and his son Jantinus (23) Klaassens are buried in Grolloo cemetery. Klaassens ran the café in Schoonloo, b...
On 22 January 1945, members of the 'Sipo und SD' killed twenty men on the Woudweg in Dokkum. It was the largest executio...
Near Haskerhorne, a plane dropped valuable cargo on the night of 1 to 2 November 1944: two secret agents, Peter Tazelaar...
In the evening of 14 April, a Royal Canadian Dragoons patrol reached the area around the village which is now called Dam...
"That morning lasted longer than ever. I did nothing but stand at the window and talk. Down in the park a man told me th...
After the Allied airborne troops were defeated at Arnhem in September 1944, it took until March 1945 for the Allies to g...
The Irish Regiment of Canada fought in Gelderland in April and then spent a short time in Friesland to guard the Zuiderz...
On Sunday 15 April 1945 - the day that is considered Friesland's liberation day - here in Kiesterzijl, German gunfire ki...
