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Fortification
Some talk about the Frieslandriegel, while others talk about the Assener Stellung. The fact is that the landscape in Dre...
Story
After the German resistance was forcibly crushed in Hooghalen, the Canadian troops moved into Assen. In the preceding da...
The beginning and end of the war in Assen played out similarly for Thijs Poorta, only involving different players. ...
14 March 1945. Bomb on Nieuwstraat, currently known as Wethouder Buningstraat. The war was nearing its end, but the neig...
Landmark
The Channel Islands were the only British territory to be occupied by German forces during WWII. Islanders lived under G...
The Roman convents, whose extraterritoriality was guaranteed, hosted in 1943-44 many anti-fascist leaders destined to co...
After the German occupation of Rome, the soldiers who remained in the capital tried to organise themselves, forming the ...
Jan Arends on the liberation of his native village and the shelling of the villa of Mrs Servatius, who was the owner of ...
Museum
Occupied for almost five years by German forces in June 1940, the Islands of Guernsey are strategically located in the E...
French paratroopers landed in several places in Drenthe the days before the liberation of Grolloo on 12 April, including...
Castle Cornet was a hugely strategic location for the occupying forces to control St Peter Port Harbour and so they rein...
On 13 October 1943 the Kingdom of Italy declared war on Germany and was recognized as a cobelligerent by the Allies. The...
Sark Island, one of the Islands of Guernsey, was occupied by German forces in 1940 for a period of almost five years. Wh...
Monument
Palazzo Marino, a 16th-century work by Perugian architect Galeazzo Alessi, is an aristocratic palace in Milan and has be...
The Ghetto of Rome has a long history; it was created in 1555 by pope Paul IV for the Jews to live in an area closed by ...
The Wedekind Palace (Palazzo Wedekind) on the Colonna Square (Piazza Colonna) in Rome was the headquarters of the Nation...
In the Lateran Palace, in Rome, many Italian antifascists and politicians found shelter between 1943 and 1944. After the...
Venice Palace (Palazzo Venezia), in Rome, was the headquarters of the Fascist government. Mussolini used its Globe Room ...
Other
The House of Remembrance and History, built in 2006 near Regina Coeli, houses the headquarters of several associations r...
Situated North-East of the city centre, Villa Torlonia was the official residence of Mussolini. Under the villa, an airt...
The city of Rome survived the German occupation in an atmosphere of terror, deprivation, and cold. People began to raid ...
Audiospot
After a week of fighting it became clear that Operation Market Garden had failed. At that point many British and Polish ...
On 24 March 1944, the German forces executed 335 Italian prisoners in the Ardeatine Caves (Fosse Ardeatine) just outside...
On 23 March 1944, in Via Rasella, in the centre of Rome, a bomb by GAP (Patriotic Action Group) partisans killed 33 Nazi...
