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Story
The fire at the Palais de Justice on 3 September 1944 remains one of the key moments of the Liberation of Brussels. In c...
Monument
Erected after the war, this monument evokes De Gaulle’s return to France in Normandy on 14 June 1944, four years after l...
The village of Joure served as an important hub for both the German and Canadian military in April 1945. Residents initi...
Battlefield
On Saturday 14 April 1945, the Canadians prepare to capture the Herebrug in Groningen. By 7pm they try to get over it. T...
Landmark
The Bridge over the Rhine at Arnhem was the last bridge that needed to be captured during Operation Market Garden. If th...
Museum
Historisch Museum De Casteelse Poort is housed in a villa that stands on the site of an old castle. Remains of the castl...
Shortly after the invasion of Czechoslovakia on 15 March 1939, Hotel Slovan became headquarters for occupying German for...
On 18 September 1944, one day after the first British airborne landings took place and lieutenant colonel Frost managed ...
War belongs in the museum. That is the motto of the War Museum Overloon. In the museum, the history of the Second World ...
The liberation of Geel did not pass off without a struggle. The British 50th Northumbrian Infantry Division succeeded in...
Audiospot
The first four years of the war were relatively quiet in Oosterbeek, and with the advance of the Allied armies in early ...
On 17 September 1944, two crewmembers of a downed American transport plane were captured in Wyler and moved to Kranenbur...
Vector of Memory
One of the most intense battles in the Netherlands during the Second World War took place in the vicinity of Overloon as...
A historic Roman prison, anti-fascists, fascist traitors and partisans were imprisoned there during the war. It thus bec...
The final hurdle of the Rhineland Offensive was the Rhine itself. The crossing near Wesel (Operation Plunder) was one of...
To secure the strategic bridges captured earlier by airborne forces, the Allied ground troops of Operation Market Garden...
At the back of Utah Beach, the village of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont was liberated by a unit of the 501st parachute regiment o...
On 7 September 1939 the Polish forces defending the Military Transit Depot came once again under heavy fire. It was clea...
Vogelsang International Place is riddled with Nazi-symbols. Quite a few of them focus on the national socialist idea of ...
During the Battle of the Bulge, the villages of Champs and Longchamps were defended by the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regi...
The Nurses of Bastogne Memorial commemorates the nurses who put their lives in danger to save those of others. The memor...
On 15 April 1945, Franeker was liberated. In the afternoon, a reconnaissance unit of the Royal Canadian Dragoons, coming...
On 18 April, the Afsluitdijk was one of the last open routes to the province of North Holland. The occupying forces were...
Fierce fighting in and around Holwierde precedes the liberation. When it finally happened on April 29, 1945, there were ...
