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Fortification
Located near the Dutch border in Horbach, a district of Aachen, are tank traps that were once part of the Westwall. Co...
Monument
On 25 March 1945, just a few weeks before the end of World War II, Franz Oppenhoff, the Mayor of the city of Aachen, w...
While numerous bunkers enabled the population of the city of Aachen to find easy shelter in emergency situations, the ...
Akkrum was liberated by the Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars on 15 April. The same day, they left for Leeuwarden to...
Story
On their way through Friesland, the Canadians were severely hampered by the fact that the Germans had blown up a lot of ...
With the arrival of the Canadian Allies, liberation was approaching. On Sunday 8 April 1945, the Canadian Allies set up ...
Cemetery
Mont-de-Huisnes German war cemetery is located within a 30-metre high mound, one kilometre north of the small commun...
Battlefield
On Friday 6 April 1945, at about 11.30am, the Canadians made a reconnaissance towards Ommen. ...
Landmark
For more than three days, 750 British airborne troopers held out at the northern end of the bridge. Surrounded by German...
The La Cambe military cemetery is located only a few kilometres from Omaha Beach on the French Atlantic coast. On 6 Ju...
The baptism of violence of fascist squadrism in Lucca took place on 14 December 1920 during a political rally near the L...
On 30 August 1944, three members of the French Fighting Forces were killed by the Nazis. They had been parachuted in t...
Because of its very active resistance movement, the municipality of Andeville particularly fuelled the hatred of Nazi Ge...
House of the writer Guglielmo Petroni, author of the book 'Il mondo è una prigione' (The World is a Prison), which recou...
Saint-Inglevert Canadian War Cemetery contains the graves of 729 soldiers who fell during the liberation of Boulogne-s...
Monument dedicated to parish priest Don Aldo Mei, who was shot here by a German firing squad on the late evening of 4 Au...
Formerly the Palazzo Littorio, now the Justice of the Peace Offices, a public building commissioned by the Fascist regim...
On 27 August 1944, nineteen members of the French Forces of the Interior were executed by German troops in the commune o...
Museum
La Coupole, one of the most atypical German constructions of the Second World War, was intended to serve as a storage ...
On 2 September 1944, 36 civilians were executed by retreating German troops in the hamlets of Gard and La Junière (locat...
The Roquetoire bunker is located about ten kilometres from the special construction "Bauvorhaben 21" (La Coupole) in ...
On 28 August 1944, 21 FFI (French Forces of the Interior), who were entrenched in the ruins of Rimberlieu Castle were at...
On 4 September 1944, after a German officer was killed by the Resistance, sixteen civilian hostages were shot. The massa...
On 30 August 1944, two young Resistance fighters in their twenties, taken hostage by German soldiers the day before, wer...
