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Monument
The Evacuation monument reminds Lomm's inhabitants of the general evacuation of the local population in January 1945. Th...
Landmark
Hotels "Schoonoord and Vreewijk" were intended as a temporary medical point in Oosterbeek, but became the main medical p...
Story
Arnhem survives a large part of the war quite well, but on 17 September 1944, the city finds itself in the middle of the...
The Musis Sacrum Concert Hall was extensively and frequently used by the German occupiers during the Second World War. F...
Jan Dommering was a hotel owner and an internationally known billiard player. During the war, he collaborated with the r...
The company of lieutenant Victor Dover has been ordered to take the German Ortskommandantur, but gets stuck at the Utrec...
On 18 September 1944, one day after the first British airborne landings took place and lieutenant colonel Frost managed ...
The St Elisabeth Hospital, today an apartment building, was still a hospital in the war years. During the Battle of Arnh...
When on 18 September British units at the Utrechtseweg have to pull back a few hundred metres, general Urquhart is cut o...
There used to be a ship bridge on this spot. This bridge was still used during the war and became one of the targets of ...
In May 1940, 'De Ginkel' was the scene of acts of war. Inn De Zuid-Ginkel played a sad role. Here were three hussars (so...
As part of Operation Market Garden, British paratroopers landed on the Ginkel Heath in September 1944. This led to heav...
In March 1935, on the edge of the Ginkel Heath, labour camp 't Wijde Veld was opened for young unemployed people. At the...
On October 20, 1st Lieutenant Hugo Sims was ordered by the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, stationed in the Betuwe, to "de...
Audiospot
The province of Zealand and Flanders play a key role at the end of World War II. From September 4 until November 8 1944 ...
After Terneuzen was liberated and the Western Scheldt became a front line, the shelling increased. Jan Oele, who was act...
“Monument to the Dutch” is the only monument in the Netherlands that was donated by veterans of the 101st Airborne Divis...
The Kangaroo monument was erected in honour of the 101st Airborne Division that fought hard against the German occupiers...
On 24 September 1944, Koevering and Logtenburg were captured by German units during Operation Market Garden. As a result...
During Operation Market Garden, the allied troops passed the Veghel Town Hall under intense public interest. The huge co...
The province of Zealand and Flanders play a key role at the end of World War II. From September to early November 1944 t...
The monument keeps alive the memory of the execution of seven men who were shot by a German firing squad on De Hamert, a...
The monument keeps alive the memory of the 54 American soldiers who were killed in action during the heavy fighting arou...
In 1945, eleven children were killed by the explosion of abandoned armaments just outside Roermond. The two dramas unfol...
