Memorials & Monuments

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, Last update: May 16 2016,
On the coast in Oban Scotland stands a World War One memorial for the Oban soldiers who lost their lives during the Great War. In later times fallen from...
, Last update: January 24 2016,
In Boskoop, a small village in the Netherlands, stands a memorial for fallen men during World War Two. On this monument are two rows of names. The left row...
, Last update: January 19 2016,
This is a Memorial Square which is used for commemorations ceremonies of the Royal Netherlands Air Force.
, Last update: January 19 2016,
This is a Memorial Garden to commemorate the soldiers of the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF), who have fallen by the cause of an accident or during acts of...
, Last update: January 2 2016,
Crossing the boulevard from the beach at Laboe where U-boat U995 type VII C is displayed, you can find the Marine-Ehrenmal (Eng: Navy Memorial) to honor the German Navy....
, Last update: January 2 2016,
During the war German prisoners of war were transported behind the Ural Mountains, some ended up far away in Gulags in eastern Siberia, some ended up just behind the...
, Last update: January 2 2016,
Kurgan, Oblast Krugan in west Siberia – Russia, near Omsk (±500km to the south – east), or Yekaterinburg (±400km to the north –east), was one of these places that...
, Last update: January 7 2016,
The holocaust memorial in Berlin is formed by a large 19.000 m² site filled with 2711 concrete blocks placed in straight rows like silent unmarked graves. The monument is...
, Last update: January 7 2016,
For Adolf Hitler, the signing of the Franco-German Armistice of 22 June 1940 in a railway carriage at Compiègne, France was a great triumph. It gave him an immense...
, Last update: January 7 2016,
This monument commemorates the landing and forming of a bridgehead by the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division "North Shore" to open the way for the 48th Royal Marine Commando's here...
, Last update: January 7 2016,
In the morning of April Sunday the 8th, a SAS (Special Air Service - British Special Forces) unit moves to their chosen objective, the bridge and the lock at...
, Last update: November 21 2016,
Some villagers had barely seen a German soldier from up close and it even seemed like the Second World War would pass this village by quietly. But that all...
, Last update: January 7 2016,
In October 1939, Hitler signed an euthanesia decree authorizing Phillipp Bouhler and Karl Brandt to carry out a secret euthanasia program.
, Last update: January 7 2016,
At the intersection of the road leading to Hitler's Wolfsschlucht 1 in Brûly-de-Pesche and Couvin, you will find the "Chapelle du Maquis". This chapel has been erected on the...
, Last update: January 7 2016,
On 21 September 2013 the 69th remembrance event of the mass dropping during Market Garden started at the Ginkelse moor near Ede. This year more than 800 parachutist will...

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