1926 result(s)
Story
After the Second World War the German population was forced out of the now Polish city of Gdańsk, to be replaced by Poli...
Landmark
Herm Island, one of the Islands of Guernsey, was initially left unoccupied by German forces. It was later claimed by the...
Museum
Occupied for almost five years by German forces in June 1940, the Islands of Guernsey are strategically located in the E...
On 9 May Allied soldiers from Liberation Task Force 135 landed at White Rock. Their arrival heralded the start of the li...
The Patton Memorial Museum Pilsen was opened in May 2005, on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the city of Pilse...
Cemetery
In the late 1930s the monks of Mariawald Abbey came into conflict with the Nazi regime and were evicted. During the batt...
Opened in January 2018, the International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) was established to preserve the stories and exper...
Audiospot
In October 1944, many Eastern European and Russian prisoners-of-war and slave labourers are in the Roerstreek to work on...
The Manhay History 44 Museum tells the stories of the Battle of the Ardennes in the Manhay, Lierneux and Erezée Sector...
Fortification
This bunker was built in 1941 and used for civil air-raid protection from 1942 onwards. With its small size and unusua...
Monument
The Venlo synagogue was located on the Maasvlakte from its opening in 1865 until its demolition in 1965. Before that, se...
From 1942 to 1943, Elizabeth Castle was used partially as a detention camp for military defaulters. It is understood tha...
The English Harbour was the location of a wooden railway bridge which was part of the Organisation Todt railway. The rai...
The Bastogne Barracks Museum was opened in 2010. It is located in the barracks that accommodated the Allied Headquarters...
In late 1942 Louisa Gould and her sister Ivy Forster began sheltering a fugitive Russian slave worker named Fyodor Burri...
The German fortification programme relied upon the efficient extraction of sand and aggregate from Jersey’s beaches and ...
The quarry at Les Maltières, near Gorey Village, was reopened in 1942 to meet the building objectives of the Organisatio...
The Memorial to the Forced Workers is located at La Hougue Bie Museum, within a former German command bunker. ...
Overdale Stores was the location of a fatal robbery committed by Russian slave workers, who were driven by desperate hun...
The former railway bridge over La Route de Moulin was built during the Occupation of Jersey in 1942 as part of the large...
During the Battle of Arnhem, the 1st Border Regiment was one of the few regiments that could achieve its original object...
Vector of Memory
The liberation of Apeldoorn was part of Operation Cannonshot: Canadian troops crossed the river IJssel near Gorssel to l...
The monument in the hamlet of De Donk commemorates five Scottish soldiers who were killed in the area in the days around...
During the Second World War, the German army built an anti-aircraft gun emplacement in Lichtaart. This artillery defende...