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Cmentarz
The municipal cemetery includes a mass grave with 186 war victims from Montfort and surrounding villages. They died in t...
Pomnik
This fountain commemorates the courageous behaviour of Roermond's women during the Second World War. Children can be se...
On 15 November 1944, the first men of the British 5th battalion Black Watch regiment entered Leveroy. East of the villag...
Miejsce zainteresowania
The Großdeutschland Guard Battalion played a key role in the suppression of the 20 July 1944 plot and was stationed in t...
The Karstadt Shopping Centre on the Hermannplatz was the largest shopping centre in Europe before the Second World War. ...
Fortyfikacja
The Fichtebunker was a gasometer from the 19th century that was rebuilt to a bunker in 1940 and used as an air raid shel...
Stokes Bay was an embarkation point for Operation Overlord and was a construction site for Mulberry Harbours used to off...
Pole bitwy
Now reinforced with units of the fifth Canadian Infantry Brigade, the sixth Infantry Brigade continued the advance towar...
Fort Rammekens was built in the sixteenth century to control and protect the shipping connection to Middelburg and Antwe...
For several years after the end of the Second World War, the Walcheren Causeway - at that time a dyke of a 1000 meters i...
On November 5, the battle at the Walcheren Causeway ended and Scottish and Canadian units advanced towards Middelburg. A...
Historia
Brussels. 7 September 1944. On the way to his headquarters, the Field Marshal Montgomery made a short, unexpected stopov...
During the night of October 8 to9, 1944, nearly 100 Buffalo amphibious vehicles full of military personnel were transpor...
At the end of October 1944, Canadian units attacked the bunker system of Stützpunkt Cadzand-Badhuis during their advance...
One of the main operations during the battle for the Scheldt was to clear the "Breskens pocket", the German defensive po...
Peace Square (náměstí Míru), featuring a park, is one of the earliest places of remembrance in Pilsen and is the locatio...
In 1950, the twenty-one members of the Rimburg Veterans Association decided to found a chapel in Rimburgerbos. They did ...
Audiospot
The resistance in Dronrijp sabotaged a German goods train on 10 April 1945, causing it to derail. The Sicherheitsdienst ...
In early April 1945, the tension in Leeuwarden was palpable. Liberation was imminent. Fleeing Germans and Nazi sympathis...
During the fighting in the center of Groningen on 14 and 15 April 1945, the Germans defended themselves fiercely. They a...
Fierce battles raged in the skies above Friesland throughout the occupation. Allied bombers heading for targets in Germa...
The Glider Monument consists of a steel skeleton of a full-size glider. The Waco CG-4 is an American military glider tha...
One of the last German positions around the municipality of Groningen where there is still fierce fighting is in Noorder...
During the liberation of the city of Groningen, the Canadian advance at the railway bridge over the Hoendiep came to a s...