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Fortyfikacja
This bunker, a concrete casemate from 1939, is one of the remnants of the fighting during the German invasion on 10 May ...
Muzeum
Kleng Wach (Vaals dialect for small guardhouse) was built around 1890 as a customs office. Located on the border between...
Pomnik
During the years of occupation, the borders were closed and Vaals became isolated due to its special location. The same ...
More than half of the Jewish residents of Valkenburg (over forty people) were murdered in the extermination camps. They ...
The monument in Voerendaal commemorates the 34-year-old Belgian resistance fighter Marcel Le Chantre. On 2 September 194...
On the liberation day of Banholt, 13 September 1944, another joyful event took place in the village. A resistance plaque...
The Historical Collection of Ground-Based Air Defence (Historische Collectie Grondgebonden Luchtverdediging, HCGLVD) was...
Pole bitwy
When the final Canadian-British attack on the German positions at the Sloedam was successful, the advance to Middelburg ...
Historia
At the end of April 1945, German soldiers opened a cupboard on the farm of the Dijkema family on Geefsweersterweg betwee...
Imperialne Muzeum Wojny w Londynie jest jednym z pięciu oddziałów Imperialnego Muzeum Wojny w Anglii. Obejmuje ono rozma...
Audiospot
Before the War, Jan van Hoof was active in the Scouts and he naturally gravitated to the Resistance. He spent months obs...
During the war, Jakob (Jaap) Klok ended up in the resistance in Dantumadeel, where he played an important role. At the t...
Miejsce zainteresowania
The Channel Islands were the only British Isles to be occupied by German forces during WWII. The Islands of Guernsey bec...
The village of Scharsterbrug and the bridge over the Scharster Rhine were important to the German defenders. Both were s...
The Channel Islands were the only British territory to be occupied by German forces during WWII. Islanders lived under G...
Sark Island, one of the Islands of Guernsey, was occupied by German forces in 1940 for a period of almost five years. Wh...
On 12 April, a Staghound of the Royal Canadian Dragoons drove into an ambush at Oldeholtpade. Private Wilfred Berry was ...
An estimated 1,800 Dutch citizens, the so-called Engelandvaarders, attempted to escape to England during World War Two. ...
Until 1943, Rabbijn Maarsenplein, later renamed after one of the victims, was the heart of The Hague's Jewish quarter. T...
The Jachtslot de Mookerheide estate is very attractive, a fact already recognised at the beginning of the previous centu...
Out of fear of being arrested by the Canadians, a group of SD and SS men fled from Groningen to Zoutkamp on 15 April 194...
In October 1944, Canadian private Patrick Wright is involved in fierce fighting in the vicinity of Huijbergen. He is onl...
In September 1944, after four years of relative peace, the villages of Overasselt and Nederasselt became the site of the...
On the 17th of September 1944, countless parachutists and gliders with military equipment landed here in Groesbeek. Oper...