Explore the critical events related to the war and the personal stories of those who lived through that challenging time.
In September 1944, projectiles from Germans and British crossed each other for days over the Kempisch Kanaal at Mol-Donk...
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During World War II, the Nazis used the Dossin Barracks as an assembly camp for nearly 26,000 Jews, Roma and Sinti. Plan...
In the final months before liberation, several aircraft crashed near Gierle. On 9 May 1944, a US B-24 bomber crashed at ...
From 3 September 1944, the Germans began the retreat. They claimed everything with wheels, from bicycles to farm carts. ...
The last German surge was in December 1944, when the Allies had advanced to the Belgian Ardennes and were completely sur...
Following the invasion of the U.S.S.R. and the entry into the war of the U.S.A. on the British side, German strategy in ...
Fought between the iconic landings on 6 June 1944 and the liberation of Paris on 25 August, the Battle of Normandy is of...
From 1943 to 1945, the 82nd U.S. Airborne Division was deployed in all of the important operations in western Europe. It...
#Biography
6 June 1944 entered history under the now legendary name of D-Day, the Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy. It wa...
On 2 September 1944 allied troops crossed the Belgian border at diverse places. The process of liberation went fast: in ...
The battle of Berlin was one of the last battles of the Second World War in Europe. The war that had proceeded from Berl...
The liberation of Paris didn’t have Allied priority, but an uprising of the population against the Germans on 19 August ...
During the autumn and winter of 1944/45, the longest battle of the Second World War on German soil took place in the Hür...
The Ordensburg Vogelsang was a training venue for an upcoming Nazi-elite. Young cadets were persuaded they were racially...
On 1 September 1939 the Germans attacked the Westerplatte peninsula in the port of Gdańsk. This assault marks the beginn...
The Polish First Armoured Division under command of general Maczek played an important role in the liberation of France,...
D-Day is one of the most remembered campaigns of the Second World War. The operation involved troops from Britain, the U...
The Allied campaign of Monte Cassino was fought in four phases between January and May 1944. The town of Cassino was a k...
The European drama of 1939-1945 resulted in widespread destruction. Millions were killed, maimed, displaced or traumatiz...
Operation Pluto (Pipelines Under The Ocean) represents one of wartime’s greatest feats of engineering. Huge pipelines we...
In May 1940 the Netherlands was occupied by German forces. It would take five years before they could be ousted. The fin...
As D-Day approached, Kent became the stage for one of the War’s greatest deception plans, Operation Fortitude South. In ...
The Allied Rhineland Offensive comprised several large-scale military operations during the last months of the Second Wo...
The Second World War in Europe ended in the spring of 1945 with the Allied victory over Nazi Germany. The fate of the Ge...