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Audiospot
In the winter of 1944, the front line ran straight through the Betuwe region. The Germans planned on preventing any furt...
Storia
Lance Sergeant John Alexander Bullions of the Irish Regiment of Canada was in command of the leading section of the forw...
On April 15, 1945, the day that almost the entire city of Groningen was liberated, a hospital transport with three hundr...
The Germans decided in September 1944 to make the road to Appingedam and Delfzijl impassable for the approaching advance...
Fortificazione
On June 2, 1940, the coffee cups on the table were shaking in many households of the inhabitants of Delfzijl. For the fi...
Monumento
Il monumento ad Inka a Danzica è dedicato alla memoria dell’eroina polacca Danuta Siedzikówna e tutti coloro che hanno p...
On the night of ½ May 1945, Private Wilson Lewis Lemmon of the Pioneer Platoon was attached to the D Company of the Iris...
Luogo di interesse
Sulla facciata del Palazzo Littorio di Camaiore è murata una lapide dedicata agli uccisi nei rastrellamenti dell’agosto ...
Museo
The Bunkermuseum Schlei on the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog is housed in a bunker used during the Second World War by...
Ad inizio maggio del 1945 Schulenburgring 2 era un punto focale della storia mondiale. In questo edificio il Generale so...
After his release from prison camp Wilhelmshaven, resistance fighter and helmsman of the Abel Tasman Henk Brouwers from ...
Il 24 marzo 1944, le forze tedesche fucilarono 335 prigionieri italiani nelle Fosse Ardeatine, appena fuori Roma. L’ecci...
On 6 September 1944, British Guards units managed to establish a bridgehead on the other side of the Albert Canal in Ber...
I sudafricani entrarono a Prato il 6 settembre 1944, la mattina stessa anche alcune formazioni partigiane raggiunsero il...
The Allies brought freedom. But in return they also took something with them. According to Lawyer Vos from Appingedam: '...
By 16 April, most of Friesland had been liberated. But some important targets of the Canadians had not yet been achieved...
October 1944: As the occupying forces fired V1 and V2 rockets at the port of Antwerp, many of the flying bombs landed pr...
In autumn 1944, the arms drops began. There were about 25 of them in the province of Friesland in the period before libe...
In this monumental town hall complex, the past comes alive in special collection presentations and notable key figures, ...
On their way through Friesland, the Canadians were severely hampered by the fact that the Germans had blown up a lot of ...
Major Jean Prosper Gautier was the commander of the Squadron of the Royal Canadian Dragoons that entered Dokkum with its...
On the day of the Dokkum’s liberation, a deadly tragedy unfolded at the southern access bridge. The Allies were approach...
The liberation of northeast Friesland was not achieved without a struggle. The Dutch Domestic Armed Forces (NBS) and Can...
On 22 January 1945, members of the 'Sipo und SD' killed twenty men on the Woudweg in Dokkum. It was the largest executio...