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Cemetery
The Reichswald Forest War Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth cemetery in Germany. It holds the remains of 7.654 soldie...
The Commonwealth war cemetery in Berlin contains 3,595 graves from the Second World War, 397 of them unidentified. The m...
During the autumn and winter of 1944/45, a long and bloody battle took place in the Huertgen Forest. 3.001 mostly German...
The Halbe Forest Cemetery is one of the largest wartime cemeteries in Germany. More than 40.000 people died in this area...
Museum
The German-Russian Museum is located at the site of the unconditional surrender of Germany on 8 May 1945 in Berlin-Karls...
Fortification
The Friedrichstraße Railway Bunker was built to protect railway passengers and had room for 1500 people. After the war i...
Monument
During the month of November 1944 fighting between American and German soldiers took place inside the church of Vossenac...
Story
With the unconditional surrender of the German Armed Forces on 8 May 1945, the Second World War ended in Europe. The sur...
Following the occupation of the Reichstag by Soviet troops on 1 May 1945, German defeat was imminent. On 2 May, Soviet i...
In the summer of 1945, world history was written in Potsdam, just outside Berlin. The three government leaders of the vi...
On 22 April 1945, German troops withdrawing from the Seelow Heights, situated about 70 km east from Berlin, were encircl...
On 26 April 1945, Berlin Tempelhof Airport came under the control of Soviet combat troops led by General Vasily Chuikov....
The impressive American Military Cemetery of Colleville-sur-Mer contains the remains of 9387 American soldiers who fell ...
Just after midnight on 6 June 1944 a battalion of the 6th British Airborne Division was deployed to destroy the cannon o...
Two important bridges across the Canal de Caen and the Orne river were the first objectives taken by airborne troops in ...
One of its kind in France, the Mémorial de Caen Museum gives the public the keys to understanding the Second World War, ...
The Landing Museum (D-Day Museum) of Arromanches, Normandy explains the technical prowess used in the (pre)fabrication –...
On 6 June 1944, 177 French commandos landed in the first wave on Sword Beach in Colleville. Their objective was to captu...
The Royal Netherlands Princess Irene Brigade landed in Arromanches on 8 August 1944. Attached to the 6th British Airborn...
The Belgian 1st Infantry Brigade led by Colonel Piron landed in Arromanches on 8 August 1944. Operating under the comman...
Battlefield
Devolved to the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, Juno Beach stretched from Graye-sur-Mer to Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer. On D-Day...
Omaha is the most renowned of the five landing beaches of D-Day, 6 June 1944. On this 6km-long beach the U.S. troops had...
Pointe du Hoc is a high point between two of the five D-Day landing beaches, Utah and Omaha. It is renowned for the dari...
Sword was the code-name for the easternmost of the five landing beaches in Normandy. Reinforced by commandos and support...
