The deportation of the Tanguy Abbots of Pont-Aven, France The Abbots Joseph and Francis Tanguy fell victim to the Nazi regime while following their beliefs and participating … Posted December 4, 2024 (updated December 5, 2024) by Pascal
Jacques Stosskopf Memorial – Lorient, France While Stosskopf appeared to collaborate with the Nazi's during the construction of the Keroman U-boat Base in Lorient, … Posted November 30, 2024 (updated November 30, 2024) by Pascal
Oberleutnant Felix-Maria Brandis – Messerschmitt Bf 110 LN+FR First lieutenant or Oberleutnant Felix-Maria Brandis was born in Ahaus Germany on 9 September 1919. His flying training … Posted October 13, 2024 (updated October 13, 2024) by Patrick
The Grave of Dutch Resistance member Nicolaas Erkens – Robermont Cemetery, Liege, Belgium The grave of Dutch resistance member Nicolaas Erkens, a Bronze Lion medal recipient (Dutch: Bronzen Leeuw), who was … Posted March 6, 2023 (updated November 30, 2024) by Pascal
Na de Grote Razzia – Rotterdamse scholieren voor dwangarbeid in Duitsland 1944-1945 With great pride we can announce that the first LandmarkScout book is out! After working on this project … Posted October 26, 2017 (updated May 5, 2024) by Pascal
Tank Driver Bob Dare recounts the fate of the Jackal in the Battle of Overloon, Netherlands John Collier was a wireless operator/ loader on Cheetah of Number 2 Squadron of the Coldstream Guards of … Posted June 15, 2015 (updated February 18, 2024) by Patrick
4th Battalion Coldstream Guards in WW2 This photograph is from the private collection of Don Roper. His father Herbert Hughes Roper or Bert for … Posted June 15, 2015 (updated May 26, 2022) by Patrick
Jan van Driel – How a Forced Labourer ended up in Sweden during 1944 A few years after the outbreak of the second world war, probably around 1943, the Germans ordered all … Posted July 3, 2014 (updated February 18, 2024) by Patrick
A Fallschirmjäger in Normandy, Operation Kursk, the battle of Sicily and Monte Cassino [...]Read More... Posted February 21, 2014 (updated April 18, 2024) by Patrick
Arbeitseinsatz – Forced labour at the Sigla Sicherheitsglas G.m.b.H. company in Gross Kunzendorf N.L. – Poland Hendrik (Henk) Hoogendoorn was born on the 1st of February 1921, my grandfather was just 19 years of … Posted February 7, 2014 (updated August 3, 2024) by Patrick
The Jackal; a Churchill tank left behind in the forgotten Battle of Overloon On 27 may in 2013 the Scouts received an email from Christine; "My mother and I are travelling … Posted September 17, 2013 (updated October 17, 2024) by Patrick
Arbeitseinsatz II – Forced Labour at Sigla in Poland In August 2012 Landmarkscout received an email from a descended of a survivor of forced labour in the … Posted October 26, 2012 (updated August 3, 2024) by Patrick
David van Dam; The cousin of my granddad – Gouda, the Netherlands The name “David” was used a lot in the family. My granddad, like David, has the same second … Posted October 25, 2012 (updated February 18, 2024) by Patrick
Lorenz Hackenholt, the nazi that got away? From November 1939 Hackenholt was assigned to the Action T4 programme, working in all six facilities. In the … Posted December 8, 2011 (updated June 1, 2023) by Pascal
