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Monument
On 31 August 1944, cornered by Allied troops advancing on Abbeville, the German forces executed a group of eleven men ...
Camp Erika, also known as Camp Ommen, is a virtually forgotten former German concentration camp in the forests of Ommen,...
Because of its very active resistance movement, the municipality of Andeville particularly fuelled the hatred of Nazi Ge...
Story
On 30 August 1944, three members of the French Fighting Forces were killed by the Nazis. They had been parachuted in t...
On 4 September 1944, after a German officer was killed by the Resistance, sixteen civilian hostages were shot. The massa...
Museum
La Coupole, one of the most atypical German constructions of the Second World War, was intended to serve as a storage ...
On 2 September 1944, 36 civilians were executed by retreating German troops in the hamlets of Gard and La Junière (locat...
Grantham was home to the Headquarters of RAF No. 5 Group in Bomber Command....
Located on the former Second World War airfield, the centre includes an Avro Lancaster ‘Just Jane’, which performs tax...
RAF Ingham was the home of No. 199 (RAF) and 300 and 305 (Polish) Bomber Squadrons who served with the RAF during the ...
Located in the control tower of this former Lancaster base, the RAF Wickenby Memorial Museum recounts the history of t...
Located in Woodhall Spa, the Petwood Hotel is a treasured part of the history of Bomber County, as the county of Linco...
Cemetery
The Commonwealth war cemetery in Berlin contains 3,595 graves from the Second World War, 397 of them unidentified. The m...
The National Holocaust Centre and Museum has two permanent exhibitions and hosts many events every year. It is the onl...
Battlefield
West Brabant was liberated by a truly international force: General Crerar's First Canadian Army commanded British, Ameri...
Similarly to other cities located in liberated territories, 's-Hertogenbosch became a 'leave centre', a place where Cana...
Other
Already in the early Middle Ages, Lublin was a significant political, religious and economic centre. Its importance was ...
Even during quiet periods at the front, military training continued. In late 1944, the Canadian troops found an ideal sp...
Landmark
On the one hand, the Aachen Central Station was the last German stop for many people fleeing from National Socialist p...
Between 1940 and 1944, large parts of Aachen were destroyed in a total of 69 air raids. Although reconstruction began ...
The official conduct of Aachen's first city administration under Franz Oppenhoff encountered criticism within the US a...
On the afternoon of 12 September 1944, the small municipality of Roetgen, located about 20 kilometres southeast of Aac...
Fortification
While numerous bunkers enabled the population of the city of Aachen to find easy shelter in emergency situations, the ...
Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp was established in 1943 near Nordhausen in Thuringia, Germany. It served as a subcamp ...