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Museum
More than a museum dedicated to the landings on D-Day, the Juno Beach Centre is a place of memory representing a whole n...
Story
All of Assen had already been liberated, except for the Groningerweg bridge. Canadian war volunteer Clem Ervine decided ...
On the afternoon of September 2, a huge Panzer arrived in Jemappes via Avenue Maréchal Foch (the main road between Mons ...
Landmark
The house at the corner of Pippinstraße and Rolandstraße is believed to be where Colonel Gerhard Wilck signed the surr...
Haus Grenzwacht (Border Guard House) was used as the city health department of Aachen during the Third Reich. The heal...
Jersey War Tunnels, formerly known as the German Underground Hospital, is without doubt the best known of the Island’s w...
The beginning and end of the war in Assen played out similarly for Thijs Poorta, only involving different players. ...
The criminal gang from Jemappes and Baudour, joined by men from the Kriegsmarine (the German navy responsible for the lo...
When on 18 September British units at the Utrechtseweg have to pull back a few hundred metres, general Urquhart is cut o...
During the Roman Ghetto round-up, the Fatebenefratelli hospital hid a number of Jews to prevent them from being be loade...
Exciting days began for the residents of Grolloo on 8 April 1945. Machine guns rattled from all directions as a prelude ...
On 3 September 1944, at around 08:45, on Avenue Demerbe in Jemappes, Resistance fighters fired at a large group of retre...
SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters of Allied Powers Europe) is, as its name suggests, NATO's major headquarters in Europe. It i...
Audiospot
Saturday, 16 December 1944 marks the beginning of the last major offensive on the Western front – „The battle of the Bul...
The Roman convents, whose extraterritoriality was guaranteed, hosted in 1943-44 many anti-fascist leaders destined to co...
During the Second World War and Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands, all food in Guernsey was rationed. Even catche...
On April 12, 1945, Canadian infantrymen, including the renowned 48th Highlanders regiment, crossed the IJssel River. Amo...
Monument
Shortly after the liberation in 1945, the idea emerges among former resistance members from Ede to bury their fallen fri...
For a long time, it appeared as if Gennep would remain untouched by the swirl of battle during the Second World War. Thi...
Cemetery
Saint-Inglevert Canadian War Cemetery contains the graves of 729 soldiers who fell during the liberation of Boulogne-s...
After the Allied airborne landings on September 17, 1944, as part of Operation Market Garden, it becomes too unsafe in W...
After the German surrender to the troops in Northwest Europe on May 4, 1945, the First Canadian Army prepares to return ...
Fortification
Château Dambricourt (Dambricourt Castle) was the command post of the Festung Pi Stab 27, the German Engineer regiment fo...
On the 28th of October 1944, Polish soldiers drive unsuspectingly into an ambush as they approach this intersection. It ...