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Pole bitwy
The Allies spearheaded the invasion of Walcheren with Operation Infatuate II: a landing near the bombarded ‘Zeedijk’ nea...
Pomnik
In 2017 three memorial plaques were unveiled in honor of the Pilsen resistance fighters at three houses on Čechova Stree...
Historia
The Dishoek Coastal Battery was part of the Atlantikwall. The German occupiers established the more than 5.000 kilometre...
In addition to the landing at Westkapelle, the Allies started the invasion of Walcheren with a landing at Flushing – Ope...
During Liberation Day celebrations in May 2012, a monument to Czechoslovak soldiers who fought on the Western Front in 1...
As early as 4 September 1944, people flocked to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Since 1922, this sepulchre had been the...
Brussels. 7 September 1944. On the way to his headquarters, the Field Marshal Montgomery made a short, unexpected stopov...
An atypical and popular Brussels neighbourhood, the Marolles are considered to be the centre of what is known as the Bru...
Apart from the actions carried out by the armed resistance forces in September 1944, Belgium's strictly military contrib...
Audiospot
The province of Zealand and Flanders play a key role at the end of World War II. From September 4 until November 8 1944 ...
Since the official establishment of the Dutch National Socialist Movement NSB in 1932, Valkenburg had a remarkable numbe...
Miejsce zainteresowania
Originally, so-called block crushers extracted marl from the Heidegroeve in Valkenburg. In the course of time, part of t...
Valkenburg was in the middle of a three-kilometre-wide breach in the German defences on 14 September 1944. The American ...
Fortyfikacja
Throughout the centuries, the caves around Valkenburg offered a safe haven in turbulent times. Intensive marl mining had...
After heavy fighting on the Peel front near Overloon and Meijel, the men of the American 7th Armoured Division were give...
The monument in Voerendaal commemorates the 34-year-old Belgian resistance fighter Marcel Le Chantre. On 2 September 194...
The Freedom Monument at the Vrijthof is a reminder to residents and visitors that peace and freedom cannot be taken for ...
On Tuesday 12 September 1944, men of the 117th regiment of the 30th American infantry division (Old Hickory) crossed the...
On the liberation day of Banholt, 13 September 1944, another joyful event took place in the village. A resistance plaque...
Similar to Noorbeek and Mheer, the village of Mesch to the south-east of Eijsden laid claim to the title of 'first liber...
Cmentarz
The cemetery of Stevensweert contains a number of graves of inhabitants who died during the years of occupation. ...
The Atlantic Wall is a line of defence ranging from Norway to Spain, constructed by Nazi Germany during World War II to ...
