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Audiospot
The old railway bridge in Deventer is militarily important during the Second World War. Germans use the railway to trans...
On the 11th of April 1945, Heino is in a liberation daze as the Canadian liberation army has surrounded the Germans. The...
Landmark
This tunnel complex was built by the German State Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst – RAD) and the German firm of Theo...
The Organisation Todt Bäckerei (bakery), which was built on Goose Green Marsh, Beaumont, has now been incorporated into ...
The German fortification programme relied upon the efficient extraction of sand and aggregate from Jersey’s beaches and ...
The Organisation Todt had their headquarters in Jersey at 17 Midvale Road, St Helier. They also occupied the house next ...
From 1942 to 1943, Elizabeth Castle was used partially as a detention camp for military defaulters. It is understood tha...
The English Harbour was the location of a wooden railway bridge which was part of the Organisation Todt railway. The rai...
Museum
Jersey War Tunnels, formerly known as the German Underground Hospital, is without doubt the best known of the Island’s w...
In late 1942 Louisa Gould and her sister Ivy Forster began sheltering a fugitive Russian slave worker named Fyodor Burri...
The Memorial to the Forced Workers is located at La Hougue Bie Museum, within a former German command bunker. ...
Overdale Stores was the location of a fatal robbery committed by Russian slave workers, who were driven by desperate hun...
The Island's power station, at Queen's Road, St Helier, was diesel-fulled. The shortage of diesel prompted the Organisat...
The former railway bridge over La Route de Moulin was built during the Occupation of Jersey in 1942 as part of the large...
Monument
The Westmount Memorial at the Jersey Crematorium commemorates the former Strangers’ Cemetery where forced and slave work...
Fortification
The prominent position of the Castle in the middle of St Aubin’s Bay, to the south of the Island and close to St Helier,...
During the Battle of Arnhem, the 1st Border Regiment was one of the few regiments that could achieve its original object...
Vector of Memory
The liberation of Apeldoorn was part of Operation Cannonshot: Canadian troops crossed the river IJssel near Gorssel to l...
Wageningen was liberated on 17 April 1945 by troops of the British 49th Infantry Division. But nobody was there to celeb...
The monument at the former partisan camp commemorates the history of two hit squads and their German prisoners of war in...
The monument in the hamlet of De Donk commemorates five Scottish soldiers who were killed in the area in the days around...
Jac Maris (1900-1996), grandson of the famous painter from the Hague School Jacob Maris, made the war monument named The...
A garden in Baexem contained the grave of British soldier Donald Barret for almost two years. It was not until October 1...
Cemetery
Milsbeek War Cemetery is the smallest British war cemetery in the region. It is part of the parochial cemetery behind th...
