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Museum
With its phenomenal view of the world-famous John Frost Bridge, Airborne at the Bridge tells its visitors the personal s...
The Airborne Museum 'Hartenstein' shows the course of events during the Battle of Arnhem. This took place in September 1...
Monument
The Ravensbrück Concentration Camp was the largest concentration camp for women on German soil. Between 1939 and 1945 ar...
Story
During the harsh winter of 1944-1945 a large part of the German-occupied Netherlands suffered from severe shortages of f...
On 5 May 1945 German commander general Blaskowitz met with Canadian general Foulkes in Hotel de Wereld in Wageningen. Th...
Battlefield
The main objective of Operation Veritable was to clear the area between the river Maas (Meuse) and the Lower Rhine of Ge...
Operation Market Garden managed to liberate a large part of the Netherlands, but failed in its main objective: outmaneuv...
To ensure the success of Operation Market Garden, the Allied forces had to capture the bridge in Arnhem. But the light-a...
The city of Nijmegen played an important role in Operation Market Garden. With two bridges across the Waal river it was ...
The Betuwe, the floodplain between the Waal and Rhine river, became the boundary between Allied and German territory aft...
In March 1945 the Allies broke the German defences and crossed the Rhine. The strange situation now occurred that the No...
The Stutthof camp was planned long before the war broke out. It was built as a regional prison camp, but during the war ...
During the German assault on the Military Transit Depot, Guardhouse nr. 1 was the most important stronghold in the defen...
Apart from Allied air raids towards the end, the Second World War didn’t affect the infrastructure of the city of Gdańsk...
The heavily reinforced barracks of the Westerplatte garrison were the backbone of the Polish defence. Here the armoury, ...
In June 1944, the Germans transformed Stutthof from a prison camp into a concentration camp. Over 50.000 Jews were depor...
Operation Veritable was an Allied campaign aimed at driving the German army out of the Reichswald, a vast and dense fore...
Cemetery
The Soviet-Russian Second World War Cemetery Simmerath-Rurberg holds the remains 2.322 Soviet citizens. Fifty-five of th...
The Soviet War Memorial in Treptow Park is the largest war memorial in Berlin and indeed in Germany today. The imposing ...
The Soviet Memorial Tiergarten in the centre of Berlin commemorates the more than 80.000 Soviet soldiers who fell during...
The Seelow Heights Memorial Site and Museum has transformed a former battlefield into an internationally recognized plac...
For the purpose of remembrance and warning Museum Huertgen Forest 1944 and in Peacetime (Museum Hürtgenwald 1944 und im ...
A memorial plaque placed at a site in the Wendenschloss quarter of Berlin on Niebergall Street recalls a historic event....
Landmark
The Clay Headquarters compound was built for the German Air Force before the Second World War. The U.S. Military Governm...
