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Cemetery
Syracuse War Cemetery contains 1,059 Commonwealth graves from the Second World War, 134 of them unidentified. The cemete...
Story
Towards the end of the war, French paratroopers were dropped in Drenthe. About 30 of them ended up around Zuidlaren. An ...
On April 3, 1945, the BBC broadcasts a mysterious message: "Listen to the sound of the waves." This cryptic command serv...
Landmark
During the Occupation, the OMBR (Organisation Militaire Belge de la Résistance), was an organisation that grew out of th...
Situated North-East of the city centre, Villa Torlonia was the official residence of Mussolini. Under the villa, an airt...
Audiospot
On the 22nd of February 1944, Nijmegen was hit by a veritable carpet of bombs. American pilots carried out a bombing rai...
In the evening of Friday September 22nd 1944, parts of the allied ground army – coming from the south of the Netherlands...
War is cruel and costs countless lives. For those left behind, it is important to know where their loved ones died and w...
In January 1945, most of the prisoners of the main Stutthof camp were forced to walk to Danzig/Gdansk and beyond. 13.000...
The obsolete German battleship Schleswig-Holstein played an important role at the outbreak of the Second World War. The ...
Monument
On 26 September 1944, the Germans forced railwaymen Alfredo Ballotti and Dorindo Nicodemi to transport war material. The...
Estate the Hemelse Berg became a shelter for refugees during de Battle of Arnhem, but they did not get through the war u...
Fortification
Some talk about the Frieslandriegel, while others talk about the Assener Stellung. The fact is that the landscape in Dre...
One of the crucial moments for Italian history is 19 July 1943, when the Allies bombed the San Lorenzo district, speedin...
Quota 424 is the name given to the top of the small hill in the Altavilla Silentina area, where a small monument commemo...
The Monument to Resistance and Peace, erected in 1998, combines remnants of war ruins and works of art, and it is a cent...
The liberation of Drenthe had already begun when the Germans killed more than 90 Dutchmen from the infamous Scholtenhuis...
The monument to the Japanese American soldier inaugurated in Pietrasanta in 2000 is a tribute to all the Allied soldiers...
The story of the Jewish people of Meppel, who were among the few to survive. In this case, mother Roosje and daughter Al...
On 5 June 1945 the supreme commanders of the Western powers met for the first time with their colleague from the Soviet ...
Venice Palace (Palazzo Venezia), in Rome, was the headquarters of the Fascist government. Mussolini used its Globe Room ...
The breakthrough of the first line of the so-called 'Westwall' in October 1944 was a decisive success for the US troop...
In the Lateran Palace, in Rome, many Italian antifascists and politicians found shelter between 1943 and 1944. After the...