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Monument
Casemate 7 was part of the delay line of the Geul Line, built in 1939, just before the German invasion in May 1940. Sinc...
Fortification
The bunkers at Dishoek played a crucial role during the Battle of the Scheldt in 1944. After the fall of Antwerp, Hitler...
Landmark
At the Milliomont stream near Renuâmont, an American Sherman tank nicknamed ‘Barracuda’ by its crew, was hit by enemy fi...
Constructed by Nazi Germany, the Atlantikwall was a line of defence of more than 5000 kilometres in length to prevent an...
When rumours of the liberation of Brussels reached Leopoldsburg, the occupiers began to retreat. So too in the K-blocks,...
Museum
Bunkermuseum Zoutelande tells the story of the German coastal defence system, the Atlantic Wall, in Zeeland. It also foc...
On May 12,1945 sufficient clearance work of mines and other defences at L’Ancresse Bay in Guernsey had been undertaken t...
Mill Lane had become the fortified citadel of the German Headquarters during the Occupation, surrounded by barbed wire a...
Located in central St Anne, the German Occupation collection at Alderney Society Museum is unique, as Alderney was the o...
Following the surrender of Alderney to the liberating forces on the 16th May 1945, a large scale clearance programme was...
Cemetery
War is not only about battles, battlefields, winners or losers. It is also about mourning, souvenirs, reconstruction and...
The Channel Islands were the only British Isles to be occupied by German forces during WWII. After the D-Day landings th...
On May 9 1945, one day after VE day, a small party from Liberating Task Force 135 ceremoniously hoisted a Union Jack Fla...
Herm Island, one of the Islands of Guernsey, was initially left unoccupied by German forces. It was later claimed by the...
On 9 May Allied soldiers from Liberation Task Force 135 landed at White Rock. Their arrival heralded the start of the li...
Story
All of Assen had already been liberated, except for the Groningerweg bridge. Canadian war volunteer Clem Ervine decided ...
The Channels Islands were the only British isles to be occupied by German armed forces during WWII. The occupation laste...
The surrender papers were signed by the German Commandant on 10th May 1945 and thereafter the British liberating party f...
Unlike the other Islands of Guernsey, the civilian population of Alderney was almost totally evacuated prior to its occu...
“It was the end of January 1945. For quite some time, hunger had held the Holland provinces in the western part of the N...
A special museum has been established at the Johan Willem Friso Barracks in Assen: the Stoottroepen Museum displays the ...
Tens of thousands helped dig the Assener Stellung in the last year of the war to stop the Allied tanks, but the arduous,...
Exciting days began for the residents of Grolloo on 8 April 1945. Machine guns rattled from all directions as a prelude ...
