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Monument
The Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation (Deportation Memorial) can be found at the eastern tip of the Île de la Cité ...
The Shoah Memorial in Paris city centre can be found in the district of Le Marais, where a large Jewish population lived...
A statue of General Charles de Gaulle stands near the Champs Elysées in Paris, France. During the Second World War, the ...
Museum
The Museum of the Order of the Liberation in Paris documents the history of the Free French Forces, the government-in-ex...
The Army Museum in Paris, created in 1905, is one of the biggest museums of military art and history in the world. Its C...
The Military Intelligence Museum in Bedfordshire tells the history of British Military Intelligence from the Boer War on...
The Sywell Aviation Museum in Northamptonshire was opened in 2001 by the legendary aviator Alex Henshaw MBE. It provides...
Cemetery
The Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial site contains the remains of 3,812 of American soldiers who fell in the Sec...
The Solent Sky Aviation Museum depicts the history of aviation in Southampton and its international importance in the So...
Story
In November 1944 the Allies launched Operation Queen with the goal of crossing the Rur river and then pushing forward to...
The last major battle of the Normandy campaign was fought in August 1944 in the so called Falaise-Argentan pocket, where...
On 16 April 1945, the Soviet forces started to encircle Berlin in a pincer movement. Five days later, the first Soviet u...
One of the essential missions of the 82nd American Airborne Division was to take the bridges spanning the merderet river...
With nearly 4000 British soldiers buried here, the Bayeux War Cemetery is the largest British military cemetery of the S...
The historic region of Alsace-Moselle was a contended area between Germany and France. The memorial tells the story of t...
At the end of the Second World War the Austrian SS-commander Otto Skorzeny was for the Allies ’the most wanted man in Eu...
Jersey’s Maritime Museum, which occupies two large granite goods stores dating from the late 1800s, sits on the New Nort...
Landmark
The Organisation Todt Hospital in Jersey was first established at a private house called ‘Rosemount’, located on Mont Pi...
Battlefield
Walcheren was of great strategic importance due to its location at the mouth of the Scheldt Estuary and the strong Atlan...
The Sangro River War Cemetery is a Commonwealth war cemetery in Torino di Sangro, Italy. A total of 2,617 Allied soldier...
The Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus was constructed between 1935 and 1936 as a headquarters of the German Ministry of Aviation. Du...
Launched in 1936, ORP Blyskawica is the oldest surviving destroyer in the world. The ship took part in several key opera...
Nervous about the approaching Soviet Army, the Germans decided to evacuate the Stutthof concentration camp in January 19...
After the Second World War the German population was forced out of the now Polish city of Gdańsk, to be replaced by Poli...
