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In the last two years of the war, the resistance in Friesland became more and more organised. On 12 December 1944, the D...
The Allied advance through the Netherlands comes to a halt when Operation Market Garden fails. The heavily undermanned B...
The Second World War drew to an end in April 1945. The German troops surrendered in only a matter of days. Nevertheless,...
In April 1945, the 822nd Wehrmacht-infantry battalion was stationed on Texel. The battalion consisted of 800 Georgian vo...
During the Second World War, the Sinti and Roma people are persecuted and deported to extermination camps such as Auschw...
In September 1944, heavy fighting takes place in central and northern Limburg between the Allies advancing from the Peel...
In the night of 16 to 17 June 1943, a heavily loaded Lancaster bomber takes off from Bottesford to bomb Cologne. The air...
Private David McKellar is one of the many allied soldiers who died an unknown and inglorious death for our freedom. Than...
After the arrival of the first prisoners-of-war who had fled Germany in 1941, a group in Herkenbosch create an escape ro...
After the Normandy landings, (D-Day 1944), the Allies advanced towards Germany. To support the progress of the ground fo...
By the end of September 1944, Operation Market Garden was over and the war had moved to the region east of Nijmegen and ...
After the failure of Operation Market Garden in September 1944, there was deadlock in the fighting between the German an...
After the allied defeat at the Battle of Arnhem in 1944, hundreds of Airborne soldiers went into hiding in the surroundi...
In the winter of 1944, the front line ran straight through the Betuwe region. The Germans planned on preventing any furt...
In October 1944, the German army devises plans to flood a large part of the Dutch-German border area in defence of an al...
September 1944: after the failure of Operation Market Garden, the British Field Marshal Montgomery plans Operation Gatwi...
It is the 7th of February 1945, the eve of the allied offensive codenamed Operation Veritable. Kleve, which had been sub...
Until September 1944, the citizens of Frasselt had been largely unaffected by the war. In preparation for Operation Mark...
After 17th September 1944, Middelaar had found itself directly on the frontline, with heavy bombardments making life unb...
The British military cemetery holds the grave of art protection officer Ronald Balfour. In 1944, the historian from the ...
Monument
The monument was erected in 1951 in memory of more than one hundred Maastricht residents who died during the bombardment...
On September 17, 1944, the British XXXth Army Corps departs from here to enter the Netherlands. The bridge does not fall...
On September 17, 1944, the air is suddenly filled with an overwhelming drone. Many hundreds of aircraft appear over the ...
On September 17, 1944, five Allied planes are shot down above this area by German flak. A large number of paratroopers a...
