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Landmark
Due to its elevated position (193 metres), the plateau atop the Eyserbosweg offered the Allies a unique, direct view of ...
Audiospot
On September 22, 1944, when the vanguard of a battalion of U.S. paratroopers reaches Uden, German troops cut the road be...
Story
On Saturday 14 April 1945, the Canadians advanced via the Parkweg to the main station and in the late afternoon the enti...
Monument
The monument keeps alive the memory of the 34 inhabitants of Sevenum who were killed during the occupation years. The un...
Cemetery
Margraten, the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial, is the only American military cemetery in the Netherlands. Th...
Fort Zinna Prison in Torgau was one of the largest military prisons during the Second World War in Germany. Here many Ge...
On 17 December 1944 the German fighting unit (Kampfgruppe) Peiper killed 84 American prisoners of war at the crossroads ...
After the German occupation, Frans van Eyck from Hulten escapes to England. He serves in the Princess Irene Brigade. Fro...
Syracuse War Cemetery contains 1,059 Commonwealth graves from the Second World War, 134 of them unidentified. The cemete...
Museum
The Munich City Museum includes a permanent exhibition dedicated to the history of National Socialism in Munich, startin...
After the Allied break out from Normandy in August 1944 the German army had been in full retreat. With the capture of An...
The German Kulmhof Death Camp in Chelmno operated over two periods: between 1941 and 1943, and between 1944 and 1945. Th...
The cemetery of Swartbroek has a separate honorary courtyard with the graves of fifty British soldiers and a British air...
“For our freedom and yours” – reads the inscription in Polish, French and Flemish. It is carved on the wall of memory, c...
A Wellington HZ520 crashed on the Borkelsedijk in Bergeijk on 22 June 1943. The British bomber was on its way to bomb Kr...
In the center of the small town of Beveren there is a bust of general Stanislaw Maczek. It reminds the citizens of the c...
At the end of the war, a unique story played out in the village Balgoij in the Netherlands. In the leading roles were th...
The German Tank Museum in Munster, Germany was constructed in 1983. On display are tanks, military vehicles and uniforms...
The Moabit Cellular Prison History Park (Geschichtspark Zellengefängnis Moabit), was constructed on the site of the form...
The Bunker Museum Terschelling consists out of a bunker complex which is free to visit. Four of the bunkers are open for...
The flourishing and extensive Jewish community in Arnhem, one of the oldest in the Netherlands, is hit hard in the Secon...
Catania War Cemetery is a Commonwealth cemetery in Catania on the eastern coast of Sicily. It contains graves of 2,135 s...
Battlefield
The Canadian soldiers of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division advance along the Hoendiep via Hoogkerk to Kostverloren. The...
Lager Wick Labour Camp was a labour camp built by the Organisation Todt in 1942 during the German Occupation of Jersey....
