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Landmark
During Operation Market Garden, the allied troops passed the Veghel Town Hall under intense public interest. The huge co...
Vector of Memory
On Sunday, 17 September 1944, the inhabitants of Vught look up to the sky filled with excitement and with their mouths o...
In 1944, the park became the home of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force where General Eisenhower planne...
Story
On Saturday evening, April 14, 1945, a briefing is organized by Canadian Lieutenant V. Stott for the commanders of the S...
The Hochbunker Heckeshorn was a part of the former German Air Raid Defence School and now serves as an emergency hospita...
The world-famous botanical gardens at Kew boast some intriguing connections to Operation Overlord and Operation Totalise...
Battlefield
A major of The Black Watch was wounded on Saturday 14 April while crossing the Reitdiep by a bullet from a German sniper...
Fortification
The centre of Vaals offers a good view of the German Schneeberg, a wooded hill north of Aachen. There is a tank obstacle...
The Martinitoren in Groningen was under scaffolding during the war, because of the restoration of the tower. Work starte...
The Germans try to slow down the Canadian advance in the city of Groningen by blowing up the Vissersbrug and the A-bridg...
On Sunday 15 April 1945, the Canadians advance via the Ernst Casimirlaan to the Noorderplantsoen. The tanks and a cannon...
The Canadian Captain George Blackburn runs on April 14, 1945 from the Parkbrug towards the station in Groningen. From a ...
Monument
As early as 4 September 1944, people flocked to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Since 1922, this sepulchre had been the...
Audiospot
September 1944: after the failure of Operation Market Garden, the British Field Marshal Montgomery plans Operation Gatwi...
Cemetery
The National Shooting Range was located in the municipality of Schaerbeek. During both wars, patriots were executed ther...
During the war days, the Park School in Groningen was requisitioned by the Germans for a military hospital. During the f...
The Canadians deploy Kangaroo tanks of the 1st Canadian Armoured Carrier Regiment to storm the Herebrug on Saturday 14 A...
The monument was erected in 1951 in memory of more than one hundred Maastricht residents who died during the bombardment...
Vera Kohnová (26 June 1929 – 1942) was a young Czechoslovak Jewish diarist. She and the family were put on a transport t...
The Great Synagogue of Pilsen is the third largest in Europe and fifth largest worldwide. During World War II, it was se...
Museum
The Museum of the Italian Liberation Corps celebrates the Italian military unit that flanked the Allied troops during th...
Nijmegen was hit hard by the violence of war: the American bombardment of 22 February 1944 left much of the inner city i...
On 13 December 1944, the battle for the woodland between Krinkelt-Rocherath (Belgium) and Wahlerscheid (Germany) began...
The Waalsdorpervlakte is located in the Meijendel dune area near The Hague. During World War Two, more than 250 people, ...