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Story
It was not only the Canadians, British and Americans who helped to liberate our country — in October 1944, some 16,000 P...
The liberation of the Netherlands began in September 1944 with the start of Operation Market Garden. Numerous paratroope...
‘I’m very far away, but my heart is back at home. With my wife, who is alone. All I have now is the memory of the fairy ...
William Baird was born into a musical family in Canada in 1922. His mother played the piano and his father the violin. D...
There was a ghostly atmosphere in Asten in the night of Wednesday 20 to Thursday 21 September 1944. British grenade fire...
At the end of October 1944 the German army retreated in the direction of Moerdijk. The storm clouds of war were still ha...
“I was always compared to the other Hans”, said Hans van Alphen (1946) from Uden. During the bloody liberation of Braban...
Someren had already been liberated and there was heavy fighting 1500 metres away at lock gate no. 11. The English libera...
Things were tense around the village of Best from 18 September 1944 onwards. American soldiers were approaching from Ein...
Vector of Memory
During Operation Market Garden there was fierce German resistance on and around the bridges of Nijmegen. On the 20th of ...
Museum
In the night of 21 January 1943, the German occupiers raid and clear Het Apeldoornsche Bosch ('The Apeldoorn Forest'). C...
Gdynia War Museum displays the collection of collector Mario Maas. At the age of six, he started collecting items from W...
Battlefield
The Allies spearheaded the invasion of Walcheren with Operation Infatuate II: a landing near the bombarded ‘Zeedijk’ nea...
After the liberation of Oostburg, the Canadians were left facing a final obstacle: the drainage canal at Retranchement. ...
Fortification
Because of the control of the Scheldt Estuary, Flushing gained an important position during the Second World War. The ci...
Monument
Walcheren was of great strategic importance due to its location at the mouth of the Scheldt Estuary and the strong Atlan...
Camp Erika, also known as Camp Ommen, is a virtually forgotten former German concentration camp in the forests of Ommen,...
The story of Anne Frank is well known due to her father's publication of her diary. Although her life in hiding was we...
The official conduct of Aachen's first city administration under Franz Oppenhoff encountered criticism within the US a...
Landmark
On the one hand, the Aachen Central Station was the last German stop for many people fleeing from National Socialist p...
Haus Löwenstein (Löwenstein House) stands as an example of German reconstruction after the war. Built in the 14th cent...
On the afternoon of 12 September 1944, the small municipality of Roetgen, located about 20 kilometres southeast of Aac...
Haus Grenzwacht (Border Guard House) was used as the city health department of Aachen during the Third Reich. The heal...
Other
The Nazis made use of the judiciary system to expand and strengthen their power. The so called Sondergerichte (Special...
