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Story
By 16 April, most of Friesland had been liberated. But some important targets of the Canadians had not yet been achieved...
Audiospot
One of the fiercest battles in the Netherlands during World War II takes place near Overloon. American and British armou...
Harrie van Daal, born in 1908, was a civil servant at the Municipality of Overloon–Maashees (later to become Vierlingsbe...
Monument
Woensdrecht was an important town for the Allies since it was the only land entrance to South-Beveland and Walcheren. If...
On Friday the 13th of October 1944, a Canadian soldier, John Dubetz, is ordered to storm the railway embankment with his...
On 6 September 1944, the day after Crazy Tuesday, armed SS troops marched along the Langstraat out of ‘s-Hertogenbosch o...
In 1940 George Eardley from Congleton was conscripted and in July 1944 he joined the Shropshire Regiment. He received hi...
‘Operation Market Garden’ was the Allied attempt to defeat the Germans as quickly as possible and put an end to the war....
At the beginning of November 1944 the Allied advance came to a standstill at the Hollands Diep and de Bergsche Maas wate...
Even along a quiet front line, safety could never be taken for granted. At Lith, the river Maas served as the frontline ...
In late March 1945, the First Canadian Army (General Crerar) was on the eve of the liberation of the eastern and norther...
Voor 1 november 1944 had de zevenjarige Rien van Broekhoven nog niet veel meegekregen van de ernst van de oorlog. Het hu...
Museum
During the battles in and around the village of Eerde, between 18 and 25 September 1944, both the mill and the church he...
Camp Vught, the former Konzentrationslager Herzogenbusch, was the only SS concentration camp outside Nazi Germany and th...
Nijmegen was hit hard by the violence of war: the American bombardment of 22 February 1944 left much of the inner city i...
Colonel Frank Krebs, commander of the 440th Troop Carrier Group, was sitting at the controls of the Dakota C-47 Stoy Hor...
Similarly to other cities located in liberated territories, 's-Hertogenbosch became a 'leave centre', a place where Cana...
Battlefield
West Brabant was liberated by a truly international force: General Crerar's First Canadian Army commanded British, Ameri...
Vector of Memory
The Vlagheide is a heathland between Sint Oedenrode and Schijndel. During Operation Market Garden, the area right behind...
Deelen airfield was one of the biggest German airfields in the Netherlands. Few people know that there are some other im...
Landmark
The village of Groesbeek sits very close to the border to Germany. From several points there are beautiful, and in war t...
In 1998, Maple trees were planted next to the current Freedom Museum to remember the Canadian liberators of Groesbeek....
Museum Vliegbasis Deelen is located on the road from Hoenderloo to Schaarsbergen. The former air base is a former German...
His name was Werner Klemke. He got his baptism of fire at the front line in North Brabant. Just like every other German ...
