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Monument
In the evening of 14 April, a Royal Canadian Dragoons patrol reached the area around the village which is now called Dam...
Landmark
"That morning lasted longer than ever. I did nothing but stand at the window and talk. Down in the park a man told me th...
Story
After the Allied airborne troops were defeated at Arnhem in September 1944, it took until March 1945 for the Allies to g...
The Ost-West-Achse landing strip was located on the nowadays Straße des 17. Juni. In the last days of the Battle of Berl...
The Irish Regiment of Canada fought in Gelderland in April and then spent a short time in Friesland to guard the Zuiderz...
On Sunday 15 April 1945 - the day that is considered Friesland's liberation day - here in Kiesterzijl, German gunfire ki...
After the German occupation of Rome, the soldiers who remained in the capital tried to organise themselves, forming the ...
Museum
The Polish Post Museum in Gdańsk was founded on 1 September 1979, on the 40th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second ...
Operation Veritable was part of an Allied pincer-movement aiming to clear the area between the Roer and Rhine rivers of ...
Cemetery
The cemetery is the largest created in Italy by the German Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge organisation. It stan...
The South African war cemetery hosts the bodies of 503 soldiers who fell during operations on the Gothic Line....
Between September 1944 and February 1945 American and German soldiers faced each other directly in the pillboxes at the ...
Audiospot
Approximately 6500 aeroplanes crashed in the Netherlands during the Second World War. 400 of these crashed in the Achter...
Siebrand Paapst (1928-2016) is taken hostage by the Germans on April 27, 1945. Together with 25 villagers he spends a fr...
Many Native American soldiers played an important role in WWII, thousands served their country between 1941 and 1945. ...
The Allied Museum tells a unique story: from the German defeat in the Second World War to the division of West and East ...
The Canadians reach the Bolwerk bridge in Appingedam on Monday 23 April 1945. The shooting stopped for a while. Three Ge...
The museum hosts exhibits, documents and photographs of the front's passage through the area. It also displays watercolo...
Established in 2006, the Ecomuseo Urbano Milano Nord (EUMM) represents one of the first and leading examples of an urban...
The Sicily-Rome American Cemetery and Memorial in Nettuno, Italy, covers 77 acres. The cemetery contains the remains of ...
Binario 21, the most important centre on the remembrance of the Shoah in Milan, is located at the back of Milan's Centra...
The Allied landing at Salerno on 9 September 1943 coincided with the proclamation of the armistice of the Kingdom of Ita...
The war cemetery in Rome was built after the entry of the Allied force into Rome in June 1944. It contains 426 Commonwea...
Battlefield
On Saturday 14 April 1945, the Canadians prepare to capture the Herebrug in Groningen. By 7pm they try to get over it. T...