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Audiospot
As a grocer, Ruurd de Bruin was closely involved in the resistance in Northeast Groningen. In August 1944 he was arreste...
Museum
The History Museum Jean Garcin in Fontaine-de-Vaucluse opened in 1990. It offers a multidisciplinary approach to the per...
Story
On Tuesday, 19th September 1944, the British paratroopers George Bowers and Robert Thompson were fatally hit by German f...
The Topography of Terror in Berlin stands on the site of the main organs of Nazi terror between 1933 and 1945, including...
Fortification
When Canadian soldiers liberated the area around the village of Groede on October 25, 1944, they were astounded to find ...
In the church of Holwierde hangs a wooden board with a carved text from the Bible book of Proverbs. There is a story beh...
The Historical Technical Museum in Peenemünde was built in 1991 on the grounds of the former German development centre w...
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe or Holocaust Memorial, in Berlin honours the Jewish victims of the Holocaust...
The Nazi Forced Labour Documentation Centre in Schöneweide opened in 2006. It is the last well-preserved former Nazi for...
Cemetery
The Polish War Cemetery at Monte Cassino can be found on the slopes between Point 445 and the Abbey on the mountain of M...
The war cemetery in Mignano Monte Lungo contains the graves of 975 Italian soldiers who died in the course of WWII. The ...
On 16th and 17th November 1944, a battle takes place to secure a bridgehead at the drainage canal and Noorder vaart cana...
On October 1, 1944, 247 Lancaster bombers targeted the sea dyke and the village of Westkapelle with the aim of flooding ...
The Lorraine American Cemetery covers 113.5 acres and comprises 10,489 graves of American soldiers, most of whom were ki...
Rome was the first capital to be liberated from Nazi German occupation on 4 June 1944. Rome had been declared an open ci...
At the first phase of the Second World War, the tunnels of Dover Castle housed the command centre of the great evacuatio...
The Dunkerque 1940 – Operation Dynamo Museum tells the story of Dunkirk during WWII. From the Battle of Dunkirk and the ...
The Serret Museum in Saint-Amarin is located in a former administrative tribunal which was transformed into a military h...
Landmark
Similar to Noorbeek and Mheer, the village of Mesch to the south-east of Eijsden laid claim to the title of 'first liber...
Monument
On 11 June 1944, a group of seven resistance fighters from the former Pas-de-Calais region, on their way to a maquis (a ...
On 30 August 1944, two young Resistance fighters in their twenties, taken hostage by German soldiers the day before, wer...
On 27 August 1944, six Resistance fighters aged between 21 and 61 were executed by German soldiers in the courtyard of...
On 2 September 1944, a group of FFI (French Interior Forces) attacked a retreating German column in the hamlet of Vert...
Mimoyecques Fortress is a former Second World War bunker located in the municipality of Landrethun-le-Nord in the Pas-de...