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Audiospot
On the 29th of October 1944, soldiers of the 1st Polish Armoured Division enter Breda. After several artillery bombardme...
With the advance of the Allies, the Germans fall back to a line, which among other places, runs along this canal. At the...
In October 1944, the fighting in and around the village of Dorst is so fierce the Poles of the 1st Polish Armoured Divis...
Story
To prevent the Germans from crossing the area on the right bank of the Orne, the British paratroopers were tasked with t...
Monument
William Thomas Buddell (1920) was one of at least thirteen Canadians who were killed or who died during or as a result o...
On 14 July 1944 a monument in honour of the 1st Special Service Brigade was inaugurated in Amfreville. The ceremony took...
In October 1944, a 12-year-old boy witnesses the devastation wrought in his village after the Battle of the Mark Canal. ...
On the 27th of October 1944, Achtmaal is liberated by the US 104th Infantry Division, nicknamed the Timberwolves. The so...
The civilian population of Gennep had already been evacuated in the last couple of months of 1944, but there were still ...
After Nijmegen was bombed on 22nd February 1944, Hotel Erica in nearby Berg en Dal became a refugee centre for those who...
In March 1945, the Allies headed for Berlin. They crossed the River Rhine in a number of different places in Germany, bu...
The hamlet of De Horst near Groesbeek is just a stone's throw away from the German border. During the airborne landings ...
Landmark
Fort Zinna Prison in Torgau was one of the largest military prisons during the Second World War in Germany. Here many Ge...
Museum
The Remembrance Centre about Indonesia in The Hague keeps the memories alive of the events which happened during the Sec...
The National Monument in the centre of Amsterdam’s Dam Square serves as a daily reminder of the atrocities of the Second...
In September 1944, Hotel Sionshof found itself playing a brief yet pivotal role in the makings of world history when Cap...
The National Canadian War Memorial in Apeldoorn is called 'The Man with Two Hats'. Ottawa, Canada, has an identical stat...
After the failure of Operation Market Garden in September 1944, the Betuwe suffers difficult times. For weeks, villages ...
On 16 April 1945 the 5th Canadian Armoured Division liberated the village of Otterlo. But other German soldiers, on the ...
This is where the liberation of Apeldoorn started - here, on the night of the 16th of April 1945. Albert van de Scheur a...
It goes without saying that during a war, bridges are strategically important. But what if there are no bridges anymore?...
By spring 1943, a camp had established itself in the Soerelse forest near Nunspeet as a safe haven for people in hiding....
In the autumn of 1944, the organised underground in Putten is very active. On the 30th of September, eight resistance me...
On Sunday 17 September 1944, the relatively peaceful life at Heilig Landstichting changed when thousands of paratroopers...