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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...
William Baird was born into a musical family in Canada in 1922. His mother played the piano and his father the violin. D...
Voor 1 november 1944 had de zevenjarige Rien van Broekhoven nog niet veel meegekregen van de ernst van de oorlog. Het hu...
Museum
The Nationaal Onderduikmuseum (National Hideout Museum) in Aalten presents how people in the Netherlands and Germany exp...
Audiospot
After several exciting first days of war in May 1940, Pingjum endured the occupation peacefully. In April of 1945, the s...
In the autumn of 1940, the German Blitzkrieg came to a halt. In the air, the roles were reversed. Allied aircraft crosse...
Monument
The last serious battle of the Queens Own Rifles of Canada took place on 16 April 1945 near Wons and Hayum. Nowhere in F...
Cemetery
The Brazilian Military Cemetery in Pistoia, Tuscany, contained the remains of 463 Brazilian soldiers who died in the Ita...
In order to turn Operation Market Garden into a success, heavy bombings were carried out shortly beforehand. The aim of ...
It is the 7th of February 1945, the eve of the allied offensive codenamed Operation Veritable. Kleve, which had been sub...
Landmark
On 18 December 1944, soldiers of Kampfgruppe Peiper, German 1st SS ‘leibstandarte Adolf Hitler’ Panzer Division, advan...
The M-10 Achilles Self-Propelled Gun was a British Anti-Tank Weapon used in the Second World War. Today, a memorial made...
One of the main objectives of Operation Market Garden was to capture the two bridges across the Waal river in Nijmegen. ...
After the death of Helene Kröller-Müller in 1939, Sam van Deventer becomes the new director of the Rijksmuseum Kröller-M...
A third large Soviet memorial in Berlin can be found in the borough of Pankow in the northern part of the city. Just lik...
In Pilsen, a glass pyramid commemorates the determination and courage of the 16th American Armored Division. It features...
The National Museum of the Marine in Toulon traces the history of the arsenal of Toulon. Visitors are welcomed by the fo...
Rosarium Wilhelminapark commemorative monument. Unveiled on 13 April 1949 by Bob Kwant, son of Carel Frederik Kwant, who...
The Rhone American Cemetery and Memorial in Draguignan can be found along the route of the U.S. Seventh Army's drive up ...
During World War II, South Drenthe was under a busy flight path. Quite a few planes were shot down as a result. Fighte...
The Cabinet War Rooms, beneath London, were key places in the planning of Allied forces from 1940 onwards. It was here t...
The Casemate of Neunhoffen-Dambach is a vestige of the Maginot Line in Alsace, France. The casemate has been restored to...
Before the war, the Van Limburg Stirum School was situated here. During the Battle of Arnhem, the school was taken by a ...
The L'abri de Hatten museum is dedicated to the innocent civilian victims and the American and German soldiers who died ...