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Story
On Sunday 3 September 1944, shortly before 20:00, the British Second Army entered Brussels by the Avenue de Tervuren. On...
Cemetery
The Georgian War Cemetery Loladze on Texel houses the graves of 476 fallen Georgian soldiers of the Georgian 882nd Infan...
When the situation for the troops in Oosterbeek proved to be untenable, it was decided to evacuate. The evacuation took ...
After the death of Helene Kröller-Müller in 1939, Sam van Deventer becomes the new director of the Rijksmuseum Kröller-M...
Before the war, the Van Limburg Stirum School was situated here. During the Battle of Arnhem, the school was taken by a ...
Monument
The Shoah Memorial in Drancy was inaugurated in September 2012, opposite to the Cité de la Muette, about 10 kilometres f...
Audiospot
Den Helder suffered badly during the Second World War. When the Canadian liberators arrived in Den Helder on 8 May 1945,...
Landmark
During the war years, Henkenshage Castle was used as a voucher distribution office. During Operation Market Garden, the ...
In the late 1930s the monks of Mariawald Abbey came into conflict with the Nazi regime and were evicted. During the batt...
The place that is now a public garden was still built with houses and gardens during the war. During the Battle of Arnhe...
Immediately after the Kristallnacht, the attack orchestrated by the Nazis on the German Jews and their possessions in th...
The army of the Soviet Union conquered Berlin in April/May 1945. Two months later the Western Allied troops also entered...
Museum
The Saint-Marcouf (or Crisbecq) artillery battery played a major role during the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944, as it ch...
On Sunday 17 September 1944, the relatively peaceful life at Heilig Landstichting (Holy Land Foundation) changed when th...
The Monument to the Meeting of Allied Forces in Torgau commemorates the historic meeting of American and Soviet soldiers...
The Charles de Gaulle Historial presents the story of a man whose life is closely linked to the liberation of France. Th...
Currently being renovated into a modern office block, on this site once stood the old Norfolk House, the Supreme Headqua...
In the course of 1944, Belgian cities suffered more and more from the devastating and methodic Allied bombings. The air ...
Battlefield
On 22 January 1944 the Allied forces landed at Anzio. The invasion was intended to outflank German defence forces on the...
Hitler's last major offensive in the West, while accumulating devastation, also highlighted a number of civilians who pl...
Lucien Hennes and his son Edgard died in January 1945 in the midst of the turmoil of the Battle of the Bulge. On 29 Augu...
The war memorial in Limmari, placed in the centre of Pietransieri, commemorates the civilian victims of the tragic Nazi ...
Liberation Museum (Bevrijdingsmuseum) Zeeland takes you through the eventful years in the province of Zeeland during Wor...
The Nationaal Onderduikmuseum (National Hideout Museum) in Aalten presents how people in the Netherlands and Germany exp...
