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Cemetery
The Commonwealth Monumental Military Cemetery in Minturno buries 2049 soldiers who fell during WWII on the Garigliano Fr...
Monument
The monument is devoted to the fallen Canadians who, between 31 August and 1 September 1944, conquered Quota 204 by brea...
Museum
The first narrative museum in Italy, the MAR, which stands for Museo Audiovisivo della Resistenza (Audiovisual Museum of...
Landmark
Only seconds passed between the continuous and prolonged hissing of the falling bombs and the subsequent explosion, yet ...
A cemetery commonly referred to as the Cemetery of the Canadians was built in the aftermath of the crossing of the front...
Story
On 17 October 1944 Gino Menconi was captured by the Germans, wounded, tied to a bed. After being doused with petrol, he ...
In his early twenties, Aldo Salvetti was captured, tortured and finally crucified to a gateway. He never revealed the na...
A small church on a hill on Monte Pasquilio overlooks the entire promontory, which was built brick by brick by the parti...
The Peace Church and the Eastern Gothic Line Museum are located on the Trarivi promontory, in the current town of Montes...
A symbolic place of resistance and war in Rimini. On 16 August 1944, three young partisans, Luigi Nicolò, Adelio Pagliar...
Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt's ancestors most probably hailed from Oud-Vossemeer. A small exhibition in the former co...
Several reconnaissance operations were carried out in January 1945 to prepare for the Rhineland offensive. Sadly, not ev...
The monument on the Voerweg commemorates the end of the Second World War and the 1st Canadian Army who were stationed in...
Siebrand Paapst (1928-2016) is taken hostage by the Germans on April 27, 1945. Together with 25 villagers he spends a fr...
The end of Fliegerhorst Havelte can be pinpointed very precisely: a barrage of bombs dropped on 24 March 1945 left nothi...
Hoogeveen was liberated on 10 and 11 April 1945. The majority of the area was liberated by Belgian SAS troops, coming fr...
As the Belgian SAS entered the area with heavily armed jeeps on the east side of the Hoogeveen municipality and purged i...
Pesse is situated at a junction of roads that cuts across Drenthe from north to south, with another connecting road to M...
The route along the Oranje Locks was not the easiest for the Canadian liberators. Close to Halerbrug, Oranje and Hijken,...
A village in Drenthe, in the smoke of the Westerbork camp, not only had NSB members, but also the resistance. Everyone k...
The bridge over the Linthorst-Homan Canal had been blown up, so the Canadian liberators had to take a different way on t...
This residential house served as an SD prison in the last year of the war, where many were severely abused, which culmin...
The Netherlands' Internal Armed Forces (Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten - BS) prepared to take over as soon as the Germans w...
