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Landmark
The river Niers in Gennep presented a difficult natural obstacle at the beginning of the British attack on the Lower Rhi...
Fortification
Huys Heyen, strategically located on the river Meuse, dates back to the beginning of the 16th century. The castle almost...
Story
As the experience of the First World War had amply demonstrated, the end of the fighting did not mark the end of the dan...
If we compare the current convent in Ottersum with photos from before 1944, it is clear that about half of the buildings...
Monument
Von Mitte September 1944 bis zum 12. Februar 1945 war Milsbeek stets in der Nähe der Front. Die Lage dort war lebensbedr...
In the autumn of 1944, the Château du Petit-Spay in Trois-Ponts took in children who have had to flee the V1 and V2 bomb...
September 1944. As the liberation approached, some 5,000 French-speaking collaborators, including their leader Léon Degr...
Museum
Brooklands Museum is now home to a vast collection of aircraft, airfield vehicles, cars, bikes and weapons. Brooklands r...
After the British had liberated Gennep on 12 February 1945 and penetrated ever deeper into Germany, there was a growing ...
Shortly after the Allied airborne landings near Arnhem and Nijmegen on Sunday 17 September 1944 (part of Operation Marke...
The Arms Monument is located just outside the built-up area of Milsbeek, at the Zwarteweg, and is a permanent reminder o...
Vossenberg Fortress is located on a sandy ridge in the Groote Peel nature reserve. The fortress was built in 1939 when t...
The liberation of Meijel began on 25 September 1944 and lasted almost two months until the final liberation on 17 Novemb...
In 1944, the park became the home of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force where General Eisenhower planne...
More than 250,000 German prisoners of war were present on Belgian soil at the end of the war. Tens of thousands were put...
While the occupation and the first liberation had been quite calm for the small town of Rochefort, on the borders of the...
Plaque on the wall of the Roermond police station on the Andersonweg (Anderson road). On 6 June 1945, the plaque was unv...
Likemost of the Luxembourg province, Houffalize, situated north of Bastogne around an important strategic crossroads, th...
In 1883-1884, the Province of Liège established the Colonie Wallone d’Aliénés (Walloon Insane Colony) in the village of ...
In Jevigné, a town in the municipality of Lierneux, halfway between Malempré and Vielsalm, the German troops were subjec...
While the Baugnez massacre committed by the SS was widely commemorated, the Chenogne massacre was long forgotten as in t...
At the end of the occupation, members of the Armée secrète hid in the woods surrounding the village of Bande. On the day...
The French 2nd Armoured Division came into play at a crucial moment in the Battle of Normandy, after the breakthrough of...
To prevent the Germans from crossing the area on the right bank of the Orne, the British paratroopers were tasked with t...
