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Story
Spier was one of those seemingly insignificant villages in Drenthe during the war, where life seemed to go on as usual, ...
Private Harte was a stretchet-bearer in the A Company of the Cape Breton Highlanders on 1 May 1945 when a platoon was en...
Audiospot
On the 23rd of January 1945, Operation Blackcock, the Allied operation to expel German troops from the Ruhr Triangle bet...
During the Second World War, the Eems and Dollard coasts were part of the German Atlantic Wall. The anti-aircraft batter...
At the end of April 1945, the battle for the so-called Delfzijl-Pocket started in full force. After some fierce fighting...
Landmark
On June 6, 1944 the staff of the 716th infantry division took up its new command post on the north west of Caen. During ...
Monument
On 19 November 1944, members of the 'Sipo und SD' shot three men in cold blood on the Rijksstraatweg, near the exit to M...
Cemetery
Fifteen Allied pilots and fifteen resistance causalities found their final resting place at the Noorderbegraafplaats in ...
Museum
The POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw was opened in 2013. Its core exhibition is made up of eight gal...
Oskar Schindler's Factory in Krakow is a former metal item factory which was turned into a modern museum devoted to the ...
With Canadian troops approaching, members of the German 'Sprengkommando' were ready to blow up the Leeuwarden post offic...
During the war, Fliegerhorst Leeuwarden was an important base of operations for the Luftwaffe, the German air force. By ...
In the spring of 1945, tens of thousands of Limburg evacuees, fleeing the violence of war, arrived in Friesland. Eightee...
The Museum of Struggle and Martyrdom was built on the grounds of the former camp in Treblinka, the second-largest exterm...
On September 27, 1944, because the Germans were expecting an Allied attack, they order the population of Overloon and th...
Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin was built in 1941. An estimated 150,000 prisoners entered the camp and 80,000 of t...
The Ghetto Heroes Monument in Warsaw commemorates the first Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943. The monument, designed by Le...
The German Death Camp in Bełżec was operational from March 1942 and it was the first place where stationary gas chambers...
The Home Army Museum in Krakow was established in 2000 and named after general Emil Fieldorf. It is the only institution...
The Historical Museum of the City of Krakow became an independent institution in 1945. Oskar Schindler’s Factory and The...
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp, where over 1.1 million men, women and chil...
Forte lorenese, symbol of the town, was a fascist base during the war, a prison for many anti-fascists...
The primary school in Nozzano was requisitioned by the retreating Nazis and turned into a place of violence and death th...
The monument was erected to honour resistance members who died, and in particular Jan van Hoof. Jan van Hoof was a membe...