1942 result(s)
Story
On 12 September 1944, the first U.S. troops crossed the German border near the ancient city of Aachen, with units pushin...
Monument
Known as the historical centre of trade unionism in Milan, the Chamber of Labour was repeatedly attacked and occupied by...
Other
On 7 March 1944, the Italian fascists, on orders from the Germans, captured over one hundred people from Prato, who were...
By early April 1945, the Americans, British and Canadians had moved forward by some distance. American units had already...
The Treaty of Versailles established Gdańsk (Danzig) as a free city under the protection of the League of Nations. This ...
Regular air raids on Berlin by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) started in 1944, with almo...
Museum
The museum is arranged along a route which follows the historical and chronological development of the main phases of th...
Battlefield
On 16 April 1945, Soviet troops attacked the German line of defense near the town of Seelow, situated 70 km east from Be...
Landmark
During the war, Jakob (Jaap) Klok ended up in the resistance in Dantumadeel, where he played an important role. At the t...
On 1 September 1939, German SS troops took possession of Polish buildings and institutions in the city of Gdańsk. Some 1...
A town prison since 1808, St. George's prison housed numerous anti-fascists during the war. ...
Friesland was well aware of the dire food situation in the Dutch cities during the last winter of the war. Harrowing sto...
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 ...
Fierce fighting in and around Holwierde precedes the liberation. When it finally happened on April 29, 1945, there were ...
The liberation of the north-eastern part of Friesland was not achieved without a struggle. The Dutch Domestic Armed Forc...
Jan Arends on the liberation of his native village and the shelling of the villa of Mrs Servatius, who was the owner of ...
The Berliner Unterwelten Association informs the public about Berlin history from an unusual perspective. Before and dur...
A bomb crater is a reminder of the occasional massive bombing raids by Allied planes that usually wanted to minimise the...
French paratroopers landed in several places in Drenthe the days before the liberation of Grolloo on 12 April, including...
Audiospot
In the winter of 1944, the front line ran straight through the Betuwe region. The Germans planned on preventing any furt...
Lance Sergeant John Alexander Bullions of the Irish Regiment of Canada was in command of the leading section of the forw...
On April 15, 1945, the day that almost the entire city of Groningen was liberated, a hospital transport with three hundr...
The Germans decided in September 1944 to make the road to Appingedam and Delfzijl impassable for the approaching advance...