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Story
The German artillery battery at Longues-sur-Mer was perfectly located to oppose the landings of 6 June 1944. Its guns we...
Shortly after midnight on 6 June 1944, D-Day began with the landing of American and British airborne troops on French so...
On 6 June 1944 the 51st Highland Division landed in Normandy on Gold Beach. The men were at the front line in the city o...
Landmark
The Reichstag was built between 1884 and 1894. It served as the seat of parliament in the German Empire and the Weimar R...
The Ost-West-Achse landing strip was located on the nowadays Straße des 17. Juni. In the last days of the Battle of Berl...
Spier was one of those seemingly insignificant villages in Drenthe during the war, where life seemed to go on as usual, ...
Museum
The Polish Post Museum in Gdańsk was founded on 1 September 1979, on the 40th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second ...
The Berliner Unterwelten Association informs the public about Berlin history from an unusual perspective. Before and dur...
Grolloo experienced poverty in the crisis years. The story of the NSB was a story full of promise. Many people were attr...
A bomb crater is a reminder of the occasional massive bombing raids by Allied planes that usually wanted to minimise the...
More than a museum dedicated to the landings on D-Day, the Juno Beach Centre is a place of memory representing a whole n...
During the summer of 1944 Cherbourg was the most important harbour in the world. For the Allies it was the vital gateway...
Cemetery
The cemetery at Bény-sur-Mer, located a few miles from Juno Beach, is one of two Canadian military cemeteries in Normand...
Originally built to defend Antwerp, Fort Breendonk was a Nazi concentration camp from September 1940 till September 1944...
Monument
The monument to ‘Inka’ in Gdansk is dedicated to the memory of the Polish heroine Danuta Siedzikówna and all those other...
There is a living war memorial in Grolloo in the form of a Canadian Red Beech. It is known as the Vredesboom (Tree of Pe...
In early May 1945, Schulenburgring 2 was a focal point of world history. In this building Soviet General Vasily Chuikov ...
The Bunkermuseum Schlei on the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog is housed in a bunker used during the Second World War by...
Battlefield
Utah Beach was the codename of D-Day’s westernmost landing beach. Here the U.S. 4th Infantry Division came ashore. The U...
Inaugurated in 2008 along the Gari river, called ‘Rapido River’ by the Allies, in a locality of Cassino named Sant’Angel...
One of the crucial moments for Italian history is 19 July 1943, when the Allies bombed the San Lorenzo district, speedin...
Regular air raids on Berlin by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) started in 1944, with almo...
The Treaty of Versailles established Gdańsk (Danzig) as a free city under the protection of the League of Nations. This ...
On 1 September 1939, German SS troops took possession of Polish buildings and institutions in the city of Gdańsk. Some 1...
