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Monument
In the spring of 1945, tens of thousands of Limburg evacuees, fleeing the violence of war, arrived in Friesland. Eightee...
Story
The story of the Jewish people of Meppel, who were among the few to survive. Like the Van de Rhoer brothers. ...
On 11 November 1944, pilots of the Royal Canadian Air Force, based at Welschap airfield near Eindhoven, were ordered to ...
Towards the end of the war, French paratroopers were dropped in Drenthe. About 30 of them ended up around Zuidlaren. An ...
Dolle Dinsdag Dolle Dinsdag (Mad Tuesday) fell on 5 September 1944. At the German airfield Havelte, Jewish workers were ...
Landmark
Havelte was one of the last places in Drenthe to be liberated on 13 April. The reason for this was that the German airfi...
The story of the Jewish people of Meppel, who were among the few to survive. Like the story of Jacob and Johanna van Ess...
French paratroopers landed in several places in Drenthe the days before the liberation of Grolloo on 12 April, including...
De Vereeniging Concert Hall in Nijmegen endured a lot during the Second World War: bombings, fighting, a period on the f...
Da sich die Front bei Nijmegen ab November 1944 mehrere Monate lang nicht bewegte, verbrachten viele Soldaten Weihnachte...
A large Allied army camp was located in Wijchen from 1944 to 1945. It was know locally among the population as 'Little C...
Museum
The St. Martinus Church, presumably designed by architect Pierre Cuypers, was destroyed in the fighting for Gennep in Fe...
The Museum of the Battle of the Bulge in Clervaux illustrates the course of the Battle of the Bulge through documents an...
As part of 70 years of commemorating Operation Market Garden, a dozen photo boards have been placed in Groesbeek, showin...
The National Museum of Military History in Diekirch, Luxembourg was created in 1984 by collectors and volunteers....
The National Resistance Museum of Luxembourg can be found in Esch-sur-Alzette, in the southeast of the country....
Audiospot
The civilian population of Gennep had already been evacuated in the last couple of months of 1944, but there were still ...
By early April 1945, the Americans, British and Canadians had moved forward by some distance. American units had already...
For a long time, it appeared as if Gennep would remain untouched by the swirl of battle during the Second World War. Thi...
The Ellen Hoffmann Square is not only named after one of the murdered Jewish inhabitants of Gennep, her name is also a s...
Fortification
When Canadian soldiers liberated the area around the village of Groede on October 25, 1944, they were astounded to find ...
Battlefield
In addition to a landing at Westkapelle, the Allies also planned for a landing in Flushing during the invasion of Walche...
In addition to the landing at Westkapelle, the Allies started the invasion of Walcheren with a landing at Flushing – Ope...
