Explore the critical events related to the war and the personal stories of those who lived through that challenging time.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower was placed at the head of the allied forces responsible for the landings in France in June ...
#Biography
United States General George Patton made his reputation in North Africa and Sicily. The Germans feared his skill and bra...
Bernard Montgomery was one of the most renowned Allied generals. He gained great popularity after his victories in North...
Only rarely do military units assume the name of their commanders. The Commando Kieffer owes its name to a banker born i...
Siebren Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema was born in the former Dutch East Indies and moved to The Hague with his parents in the...
George John Lionel Maduro moved to The Hague from Willemstad (Curaçao) at the age of 10. When the war broke out, he was ...
The 18-year-old Berliner Joachim Peiper enlisted the SS in October 1933 and was soon assigned to the elite of this force...
Helene Palm’s family was unwilling to evacuate their ancestral village of Vossenack, but the fighting made it impossible...
A philosopher by education, a tankman by calling. Soldiers adored him, for he cared about their lives. Dutchmen and Belg...
Josef Brettschneider took part in the Battle of Berlin as a young lieutenant. In a hopeless situation, he had to fight w...
It was on 10 September 1944 that British Major-General George Erskine (1899-1965) arrived in Brussels. He stayed there u...
Joseph Van de Meulebroeck (1876-1958), who was dismissed from his position by the occupier in the summer of 1941, reache...
On 13 July 1944, the military administration which had been in place since 28 May 1940 and headed by General von Falkenh...
"The" resistance fighter from Mons-Borinage, and much more Obviously, one individual cannot by him- or herself sum up th...
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny commanded the French ‘Army B’, later the 1st Army, which took part in the liberation of Franc...
After driving the Japanese out of Guadalcanal in 1943, General Patch commanded US Seventh Army from the landings of Oper...
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...