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Pole bitwy
Delfzijl-Pocket, as the Canadians called the port city, was the last hurdle on the way to the complete liberation of the...
From Weiwerd, the Irish Regiment of Canada advanced with tank support towards Farmsum on 2 May 1945. Delfzijl had alread...
After the heavy fighting for Woldendorp, the Canadians of the Westminster regiment advanced on April 30, 1945 towards Te...
Muzeum
In the Frisian Maritime Museum, a model can be seen of the barge Jan Nieveen, which maintained a regular ferry service b...
Historia
With reconnaissance flights, the Allied air force mapped out German troop movements in Friesland. And, in some cases, at...
"The worm has red hair," "Give my regards to Joseph." Such phrases were used to announce arms drops. In Friesland, 24 of...
Fierce battles raged in the skies above Friesland throughout the occupation. Allied bombers heading for targets in Germa...
Every year on 15 April, the Royal Canadian Dragoons commemorate the liberation of Leeuwarden and Friesland on Leeuwarden...
By 18 April, the mainland of Friesland had been liberated. The fighting continued in Groningen. The Wadden Islands had t...
During the war, dozens of people hid in the small village of Abbega and the adjacent hamlet of Abbegaasterketting. In Fe...
Pomnik
There is a living war memorial in Grolloo in the form of a Canadian Red Beech. It is known as the Vredesboom (Tree of Pe...
A village in Drenthe, in the smoke of the Westerbork camp, not only had NSB members, but also the resistance. Everyone k...
Because of the situation in the south, the Allied advance and the liberation of the northern part of the Netherlands had...
On 6 April 1945, the first Canadian scouts had been spotted in the northern part of the Netherlands. The population was ...
The bridge over the Linthorst-Homan Canal had been blown up, so the Canadian liberators had to take a different way on t...
After the German resistance was forcibly crushed in Hooghalen, the Canadian troops moved into Assen. In the preceding da...
A special museum has been established at the Johan Willem Friso Barracks in Assen: the Stoottroepen Museum displays the ...
“It was the end of January 1945. For quite some time, hunger had held the Holland provinces in the western part of the N...
14 March 1945. Bomb on Nieuwstraat, currently known as Wethouder Buningstraat. The war was nearing its end, but the neig...
A commemorative plaque on the bridge between Zeegse and Schipborg has been commemorating a special man since 4 May 2021:...
The Dennenoord psychiatric hospital was full of Germans during the war, which had been seized by the occupying forces to...
Zuidlaren's resistance monument is undeniably a resistance monument. It depicts a man facing a firing squad. He appears ...