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Story
Valkenburg was in the middle of a three-kilometre-wide breach in the German defences on 14 September 1944. The American ...
Fortification
Throughout the centuries, the caves around Valkenburg offered a safe haven in turbulent times. Intensive marl mining had...
Monument
After heavy fighting on the Peel front near Overloon and Meijel, the men of the American 7th Armoured Division were give...
The monument in Voerendaal commemorates the 34-year-old Belgian resistance fighter Marcel Le Chantre. On 2 September 194...
The Freedom Monument at the Vrijthof is a reminder to residents and visitors that peace and freedom cannot be taken for ...
On Tuesday 12 September 1944, men of the 117th regiment of the 30th American infantry division (Old Hickory) crossed the...
On the liberation day of Banholt, 13 September 1944, another joyful event took place in the village. A resistance plaque...
Landmark
Similar to Noorbeek and Mheer, the village of Mesch to the south-east of Eijsden laid claim to the title of 'first liber...
Cemetery
The cemetery of Stevensweert contains a number of graves of inhabitants who died during the years of occupation. ...
Audiospot
The Atlantic Wall is a line of defence ranging from Norway to Spain, constructed by Nazi Germany during World War II to ...
At both ends of the bridgehead installed on June 6, 1944, Caen and Cherbourg are the two main targets of Operation Overl...
The Irish Regiment of Canada fought in Gelderland in April and then spent a short time in Friesland to guard the Zuiderz...
On Sunday 15 April 1945 - the day that is considered Friesland's liberation day - here in Kiesterzijl, German gunfire ki...
Friesland was well aware of the dire food situation in the Dutch cities during the last winter of the war. Harrowing sto...
During the war, Jakob (Jaap) Klok ended up in the resistance in Dantumadeel, where he played an important role. At the t...
The impending liberation triggered a huge movement of Nazi sympathisers. Fearing a day of reckoning, collaborators sough...
On 11 November 1944, pilots of the Royal Canadian Air Force, based at Welschap airfield near Eindhoven, were ordered to ...
Lance Sergeant John Alexander Bullions of the Irish Regiment of Canada was in command of the leading section of the forw...
The village of Scharsterbrug and the bridge over the Scharster Rhine were important to the German defenders. Both were s...
The inhabitants flee from the town of Appingedam because of the heavy German shelling by the German coastal artillery. T...
Na de bevrijding van Sneek op 15 april, duurt het nog tot 5 mei voordat Duitsland officieel capituleert. Op 17 mei lopen...
On April 15, 1945, the day that almost the entire city of Groningen was liberated, a hospital transport with three hundr...
Dairy farmer Mulder from Jukwerd describes how exhausted German soldiers from Loppersum arrive at his farm in April 1945...
Friday 13 April 1945 "The signs of liberation are there. Where we could normally sell rationed products based on that ...
