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Audiospot
On 11 September, British reconnaissance forces are already in the area. They race through the Brabant landscape in fast ...
On their route north towards Nijmegen and Arnhem the ground troops of Operation Market Garden had to deal with fierce op...
Valkenswaard is liberated on September 17. The village has suffered a great deal under allied bombardments and air raids...
Those who lived through this battle still have very vivid memories of it; the never-ending stream of aircraft, in Septem...
On 16 April 1945 the 5th Canadian Armoured Division liberated the village of Otterlo. But other German soldiers, on the ...
The National Canadian War Memorial in Apeldoorn is called 'The Man with Two Hats'. Ottawa, Canada, has an identical stat...
This is where the liberation of Apeldoorn started - here, on the night of the 16th of April 1945. Albert van de Scheur a...
Landmark
Heerlen enjoyed long periods of prosperity thanks to the mining industry. The city came through the years of war without...
By spring 1943, a camp had established itself in the Soerelse forest near Nunspeet as a safe haven for people in hiding....
Many of the allied forces ended up in various parts of the Veluwe behind enemy lines due to the failure of Operation Mar...
In the autumn of 1944, the organised underground in Putten is very active. On the 30th of September, eight resistance me...
A resistance attack on the night of the 30th of September 1944, which took to a German soldier's life, was not without c...
On the 2nd of October 1944, in reprisal for a resistance group attack, 659 men are arrested. That same evening, about 11...
In the autumn of 1944, the high water and the Rhine reached a water level of 12.15 meters above the Amsterdam Ordnance D...
In March 1945, the allied troops crossed the River Rhine in Germany in five different places before returning to the eas...
The town of Doetinchem withstood the war years reasonably well until the very end, when the town was hit by the most sev...
In December 1944, a group of Dutch prisoners escaped from the labour camp near the German town of Rees and made it to th...
Early on the morning of 2nd March 1945, 46 prisoners were taken to a wheat field just outside of Varsseveld, where they ...
During World War II, only a small proportion of the Dutch population was actively involved in resistance activities. The...
The village of Baak managed to remain more or less intact during the Second World War, and on 2nd April 1945, the last o...
In March and April 1945, the fighting had reached the Achterhoek region. Those who were there to witness the events can ...
On March the 1st 1945, the Allies liberate Venlo. The Americans immediately change the name of ‘Venlo Airfield’ to ‘Yank...
On 16th and 17th November 1944, a battle takes place to secure a bridgehead at the drainage canal and Noorder vaart cana...
On the 11th of November 1944, a ferry accident occurred at Kessel. German soldiers force seven inhabitants of Belfeld to...
