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Monument
A third large Soviet memorial in Berlin can be found in the borough of Pankow in the northern part of the city. Just lik...
Cemetery
The French war cemetery in Venafro, Italy, contains the graves of 3,414 French soldiers who fell during the Second World...
Landmark
The Canadian troops were looking to cross Drenthe with a sizeable army as quickly as possible, with the aim of liberatin...
Story
On 12 September 1944, the first U.S. troops crossed the German border near the ancient city of Aachen, with units pushin...
Known as the historical centre of trade unionism in Milan, the Chamber of Labour was repeatedly attacked and occupied by...
Battlefield
In the winter of 1944, Groesbeek was front line territory. The 19th Century Den Heuvel estate on Wylerbaan was one of th...
Upon the arrival of the liberators, the Netherlands Internal Armed Forces (Nederlandse Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (NBS)...
The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin-Charlottenburg was damaged during air raids in November 1943 and later comp...
Museum
The museum is arranged along a route which follows the historical and chronological development of the main phases of th...
After the Second World War the former deputy commander of the Military Transit Depot, captain Dąbrowski, initiated the b...
From 19 December 1944, as part of the defence of Bastogne, elements of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division had arrived an...
Opened in 2004, on the 60th anniversary of the eponymous event, Warsaw Rising Museum is the first narrative museum to be...
The Museum of the Second World War was launched in November 2008 and is located in Gdańsk. The museum is situated 200 me...
Fort Nelson, now managed by the Royal Armouries, houses a vast collection of weaponry, many items of which are exemplary...
Museum Stutthof is located in the former German Stutthof concentration camp. The museum preserves, researches and displa...
During its lifetime the City Prison in Gdansk housed all kinds of prisoners, many criminals but political prisoners as w...
Portsmouth Cathedral is affectionately named ‘The Cathedral of the Sea’ due to its multifarious connections and memorial...
In 1939 Major Sucharski commanded the small garrison that heroically defended the Westerplatte peninsula during the firs...
Audiospot
After Nijmegen was bombed on 22nd February 1944, Hotel Erica in nearby Berg en Dal became a refugee centre for those who...
During 1944, the Pia Casa di Beneficenza (Pious Charity Home), the town's historic charitable institution, became a conc...
Operation Veritable was part of an Allied pincer-movement aiming to clear the area between the Roer and Rhine rivers of ...
On the night of 13-14 April 1945, a skûtsje (a sailing ship) was sunk by the resistance here, right in front of the bri...
The Loggia dei Mercanti (Merchant's Loggia), is a symbol of the Milanese resistance and is where the 19 plaques with the...
Between September 1944 and February 1945 American and German soldiers faced each other directly in the pillboxes at the ...
