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Landmark
San Vittore was a historic judicial prison in Milan, which also became a political prison during the war. Ferruccio Parr...
Monument
The monument to the Little Martyrs of Gorla commemorates the massacre of 20 October 1944, when an American shelling hit ...
Fortification
On Torre di Mare beach, in Capaccio-Paestum, at the spot where the American Fifth Army landed on 9 September 1943, a def...
The Salerno bunker is kocated on the Bellara hill, one of Salerno's most scenic points from which one can see almost all...
Quota 424 is the name given to the top of the small hill in the Altavilla Silentina area, where a small monument commemo...
The five stumbling stones commemorate the imprisonment, deportation and death of members of the D'Angeli family, who wer...
Near the sea, in via Torre di Paestum, there is a military construction in the shape of a truncated cone ending with a b...
In Campagna, on 17 September 1943, two large American planes dropped their bombs....
Kerkrade's Nieuwstraat can justifiably be called unique, as the street marks the border between two countries. The even ...
Story
During WWII, the town of Eboli represented, together with Battipaglia, a junction of extraordinary importance for the co...
The concentration camp for Italian and foreign Jews in Bagni di Lucca operated from December 1943 to January 1944, when ...
By 18 April, the mainland of Friesland had been liberated. The fighting continued in Groningen. The Wadden Islands had t...
During the war, dozens of people hid in the small village of Abbega and the adjacent hamlet of Abbegaasterketting. In Fe...
Battlefield
On April 24, 1945, the Canadian soldiers of the Irish Regiment of Canada had cleared the village of Wagenborgen of the l...
Haren is visited by a wonderful group of liberators. On Friday evening the Essex Scottish Regiment advanced to Paterswol...
After the liberation in April 1945, Eelde was the central point for “The 8th Princess Louise New Brunswick Hussars”. Thi...
The grave monument in Gytsjerkwas erected in memory of Maria v/d Heuij. Maria was one of seventy evacuees from Arnhem an...
On 12 April, ten captured Dutch collaborators were shot without trial just outside Oldeberkoop. It was long thought that...
On 12 April, the Royal Canadian Dragoons were the first Canadian ground units to enter the province of Friesland near No...
On 11 November 1944, pilots of the Royal Canadian Air Force, based at Welschap airfield near Eindhoven, were ordered to ...
On 18 April, Makkum was one of the last villages on the Frisian mainland to be liberated. The residents of Makkum experi...
During the battle of Delfzijl, observation officer Captain Walker volunteers to search for a missing company of the Iris...
Immediately after the liberation in April 1945, a temporary Canadian cemetery was established in Wirdum. The 44 fallen s...
Museum
The San Giusto di Brancoli Remembrance Museum preserves materials, objects, documents and photographs related to WWI in ...
