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Monument
A part of the municipality of Mons since 1971, the large village of Cuesmes, half rural and half industrial, saw tragedy...
Story
Mons, the capital of Hainaut province, owed its rapid liberation principally to the men of the 3rd Armored Division (“Sp...
Cemetery
The National Shooting Range was located in the municipality of Schaerbeek. During both wars, patriots were executed ther...
Mainly victims of Operation Blackcock, a gruesome battle in which the so-called Roerdriehoek between Sittard and Roermon...
Fortification
Sanderbout Fortress in the historic centre of Sittard was probably built around 1500. It is the only visible bastion of ...
Located near the Pont Neuf in Alençon, the Leclerc monument was inaugurated on March 15, 1970 to recall the liberation o...
Trees have been planted in the Memorial Woods on the Kollenberg, at a ten-minute walk from the historic city centre, in ...
There is a war monument in Meeswijk, on the Belgian side of the ferry across the river Meuse near Berg aan de Maas. It ...
This bunker, a concrete casemate from 1939, is one of the remnants of the fighting during the German invasion on 10 May ...
Landmark
The Rolberg in Elsloo offers a wide view of the Belgian Meuse region and witnessed the beginning and the end of the war....
Battlefield
In the early morning of 1 September 1944, a squadron of American fighter spotted a train near Stein. They had orders to ...
During the years of occupation, the borders were closed and Vaals became isolated due to its special location. The same ...
Museum
Kleng Wach (Vaals dialect for small guardhouse) was built around 1890 as a customs office. Located on the border between...
After several aborted attempts to take Aachen, the Americans prepared a new attack on the city from 7 October 1944. The ...
The centre of Vaals offers a good view of the German Schneeberg, a wooded hill north of Aachen. There is a tank obstacle...
Many imposing buildings in the Vaals region were used for military purposes during the Second World War. Sometimes this ...
Five months after the liberation of Vaals, a murder took place in the Vijlener Woods in March 1945. Border guard Jeu Sai...
More than half of the Jewish residents of Valkenburg (over forty people) were murdered in the extermination camps. They ...
In the weeks preceding the liberation of South Limburg, the German troops hastily built fortifications along the river G...
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 ...
Since the official establishment of the Dutch National Socialist Movement NSB in 1932, Valkenburg had a remarkable numbe...
Originally, so-called block crushers extracted marl from the Heidegroeve in Valkenburg. In the course of time, part of t...
