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Muzeum
Jacques (Jac) Maris is known for the many memorials and monuments he designed, but what many people do not know is that ...
Historia
The Netherlands is known as a country of water. The Dutch have been fighting against and trying to control the water for...
Pomnik
Heerlen's iconic glass palace, designed in the 1930s by architect Fritz Peutz, has a turbulent war history. The top floo...
Miejsce zainteresowania
Heerlen has not suffered much from the violence of war. There was a clear reason why the Americans set up a rest centre ...
Fortyfikacja
On 9 October 1938, Hitler announced a new expansion of the Westwall. Previously, industrial cities such as Aachen and Sa...
Pole bitwy
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...
The liberation of Maastricht was not achieved without a struggle. German troops had set up roadblocks on the south side ...
During the advance of the American army through South Limburg, all bridges over the river Geul were destroyed. Except fo...
Early in the morning of Sunday 17 September 1944, all hell broke loose. German positions in the woods near Bunde and Geu...
On 9 October 1938, Hitler announced an expansion of the Westwall. Previously, industrial cities such as Aachen and Saarb...
The Teufelsberg is a non-natural hill that covers the shell construction of a former Nazi military-technical school. Dur...
The Anhalter Steg is a replacement of an old railway bridge. An explosion of the tunnel near the bridge led to the flood...
The Weidendammer Brücke is a bridge across the river Spree in the centre of Berlin. It was used by the German troops and...
The Hochbunker Pallasstraße is a former bunker of the German postal service. After the Second World War it was kept as a...
The Trümmerfrau-Denkmal is a memorial dedicated to the Berlin women who were engaged in the clearing and reconstruction ...
The New Reich Chancellery was an administrative building erected for Adolf Hitler as Führer and chancellor of the German...
The Karstadt Shopping Centre on the Hermannplatz was the largest shopping centre in Europe before the Second World War. ...
The Fichtebunker was a gasometer from the 19th century that was rebuilt to a bunker in 1940 and used as an air raid shel...
