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Story
The civilian population paid a heavy price during the Ardennes offensive. Civilians were massacred or used as hostages, ...
Fortification
In October 1942, the Gestapo expelled all the priests of Lilbosch Trappist Abbey from the monastery and confiscated the ...
Next to Eupen and Malmedy, St. Vith was rightly considered the smallest town in the East Cantons. On the eve of the war,...
Monument
For nearly 80 years, an abandoned piece of German anti-aircraft artillery has been standing on Susteren's town hall squa...
The Peel-Raam Line was constructed in the extreme west of North and Central Limburg in 1939, at the very last moment, to...
The resistance organisation in the Gulpen district suffered a serious setback when on 21 July 1944 the Maastricht Sicher...
Landmark
Wylerberg House stands out for its remarkable architecture and the stories of the people who once lived there....
Schoonderlogt estate became one of the headquarters in the Betuwe region. This is where the evacuation of soldiers stuck...
The forgotten airport of Malden was one of the starting points for Operation Varsity, the biggest airborne operation eve...
Strategic planning station, observation point and hiding place: De Zuidmolen flour mill in Groesbeek played numerous rol...
The memorial plaque at the confluence of the Mže and Radbůza rivers commemorates the day of the first free radio broadca...
Breskens was bombed on September, 11 1944. Using air strikes, the British Royal Air Force tried to prevent the retreat o...
At the end of October 1944, Canadian units attacked the bunker system of Stützpunkt Cadzand-Badhuis during their advance...
On March 13, 1945, Queen Wilhelmina finally set foot on Dutch soil again after a five year exile. For this historic mome...
Battlefield
One of the main operations during the battle for the Scheldt was to clear the "Breskens pocket", the German defensive po...
Jindřich Křečan commemorative plaque and Roosevelt Bridge (Rooseveltův most) honour two individuals of World War II: Jin...
In the night of October 8 to 9, 1944, Canadian units landed on two beaches between Hoofdplaat and Paulinapolder. The obj...
At the end of the Second World War, Oostburg was almost completely destroyed. After the destruction in 1944, Amersfoort ...
During the night of October 8 to9, 1944, nearly 100 Buffalo amphibious vehicles full of military personnel were transpor...
The first Allied soldiers entering Zeeland on September 16, 1944, were Polish and part of the First Canadian Army. They ...
On October 1, 1944, 247 Lancaster bombers targeted the sea dyke and the village of Westkapelle with the aim of flooding ...
The monument to General Patton, under whose command the American army liberated Pilsen, was unveiled on May 1, 2015. Its...
Peace Square (náměstí Míru), featuring a park, is one of the earliest places of remembrance in Pilsen and is the locatio...
The three Stolpersteine (“stumbling stone” or “stones of the disappeared”) located outside of house Nr. 6 sady Pětatřicá...
