Découvrez les événements clés de la guerre et les histoires de celles et ceux qui ont vécu cette période majeure de notre histoire.
George John Lionel Maduro moved to The Hague from Willemstad (Curaçao) at the age of 10. When the war broke out, he was ...
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The 18-year-old Berliner Joachim Peiper enlisted the SS in October 1933 and was soon assigned to the elite of this force...
Malgré leur réticence à quitter le village de Vossenack, qu'ils habitent depuis des générations, Helene Palm et sa famil...
De formation philosophe mais de vocation tankiste. Adoré par les soldats car lui seul veillait sur leur vie. Aimé par le...
Josef Brettschneider took part in the Battle of Berlin as a young lieutenant. In a hopeless situation, he had to fight w...
C’est le 10 septembre 1944 que le major-général britannique George Erskine (1899-1965) arrive à Bruxelles. Il y séjourne...
Démis de ses fonctions par l’occupant durant l’été 1941, Joseph Van de Meulebroeck (1876-1958) est de retour dans la cap...
On 13 July 1944, the military administration which had been in place since 28 May 1940 and headed by General von Falkenh...
« Le » résistant de Mons-Borinage, et bien davantage Une individualité ne peut résumer évidemment à elle seule un fait s...
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny commandait l’armée française « B », devenue plus tard la 1ère Armée, la plus grande formation...
Après avoir chassé les Japonais de Guadalcanal en 1943, le général Patch commanda la Septième armée américaine depuis le...
Lieutenant Shalwa Loladze was a Georgian soldier fighting for the Soviet Union at the beginning of the Second World War....
During the Second World War the U.S. Armed Forces were segregated based on race. The 761st Tank Battalion, known as the ...
After the Allied outbreak from Normandy in August 1944 the population of Paris decided that it was time to try to libera...
As an Indian secret agent Noor Inayat Khan was active for the British secret service Special Operations Executive (SOE) ...
As part of not only the French Armed Forces but also the Free French Forces under command by Charles de Gaulle, Edgard T...
As part of the White Rose (Weiße Rose) resistance group Sophie Scholl was one of the Germans who stood up against the Na...
The Allied forces insisted only white soldiers would be present for the liberation of Paris. Claude Mademba-Sy was an ex...
During Operation Amherst, French parachutists were dropped in Drenthe. The goal of this operation was to support the Can...
For a long time the prevailing view among the U.S. Air Force was that African Americans could not fly airplanes. However...
Joe Polowsky was one of the U.S. soldiers who met the Soviet troops on the Elbe near Torgau in April 1945. After the war...
The Women’s Land Army (WLA) was established to avoid a food shortage in the United Kingdom in 1939. Daphne Mary Banks (n...
During the Second World War, American Lee Miller was one of the few female photographers accredited as war correspondent...
Marcel Pinte probably was the youngest French resistance fighter during the Second World War. As a six year old he helpe...