1926 result(s)
Pomnik
A garden in Baexem contained the grave of British soldier Donald Barret for almost two years. It was not until October 1...
Historia
More than 250,000 German prisoners of war were present on Belgian soil at the end of the war. Tens of thousands were put...
Miejsce zainteresowania
While the occupation and the first liberation had been quite calm for the small town of Rochefort, on the borders of the...
Audiospot
One of the fiercest battles in the Netherlands during World War II takes place near Overloon. American and British armou...
Plaque on the wall of the Roermond police station on the Andersonweg (Anderson road). On 6 June 1945, the plaque was unv...
In 1883-1884, the Province of Liège established the Colonie Wallone d’Aliénés (Walloon Insane Colony) in the village of ...
In Jevigné, a town in the municipality of Lierneux, halfway between Malempré and Vielsalm, the German troops were subjec...
While the Baugnez massacre committed by the SS was widely commemorated, the Chenogne massacre was long forgotten as in t...
At the end of the occupation, members of the Armée secrète hid in the woods surrounding the village of Bande. On the day...
Muzeum
Brooklands Museum is now home to a vast collection of aircraft, airfield vehicles, cars, bikes and weapons. Brooklands r...
On 11 September 2020, this monument was unveiled in the Old Churchyard in Roermond, in memory of thirteen men from Roerm...
Pole bitwy
On 27 October 1944 at 6.15 in the morning, the deafening roar of cannons put an abrupt stop to the relative calm at the ...
The first phase of Operation Mallard entailed crossing the northern part of the Wessem-Nederweert Canal by the Scottish ...
In Nederweert, a big liberation celebration was organised from 9 to 12 June 1945, with a parade in which more than 1500 ...
Fortyfikacja
The castle of Blitterswijck was destroyed by acts of war at the end of the Second World War....
The 'Norfolk monument' in Venray was erected in memory of the soldiers of the 1st battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regimen...
The monument at the former Vredeskerk in Venray was erected in memory of all soldiers (American, Canadian, German, Engli...
The civilian population paid a heavy price during the Ardennes offensive. Civilians were massacred or used as hostages, ...
In October 1942, the Gestapo expelled all the priests of Lilbosch Trappist Abbey from the monastery and confiscated the ...
Next to Eupen and Malmedy, St. Vith was rightly considered the smallest town in the East Cantons. On the eve of the war,...
The fire at the Palais de Justice on 3 September 1944 remains one of the key moments of the Liberation of Brussels. In c...
For nearly 80 years, an abandoned piece of German anti-aircraft artillery has been standing on Susteren's town hall squa...
Due to its elevated position (193 metres), the plateau atop the Eyserbosweg offered the Allies a unique, direct view of ...
The Peel-Raam Line was constructed in the extreme west of North and Central Limburg in 1939, at the very last moment, to...