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A bloody liberation
A bloody liberation

The battle erupted in full force. For a fortnight, both camps shot back and forth. Kalmthout was heavily bombed. Many ho...

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Battle in the Kempen
Battle in the Kempen

House to house, body to body. On 25 September 1944 Canadian liberators crossed the Dessel-Turnhout-Schoten canal near Ri...

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A mass grave on the moors
A mass grave on the moors

On October third 1944, Allied troops took Brasschaat. After liberation, a gruesome discovery was made at the Maria-ter-H...

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Bombs under the bridges of Boom
Bombs under the bridges of Boom

The liberators were coming. On 4 September, British tanks rushed towards Boom. Their mission: to liberate Antwerp and th...

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Hiding in the brick oven
Hiding in the brick oven

Brickworks battlesOn 24 September, the battle erupted. With the help of local resistance fighters, the 49th Infantry Div...

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Children won't be spared
Children won't be spared

On 24 September, troops of the British 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division advanced from Postel, across the northern canal ba...

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German anti-aircraft guns strafing Allied aircraft
German anti-aircraft guns strafing Allied aircraft

The sparsely built-up area around Kasterlee was home to a lot of German anti-aircraft artillery during World War II. The...

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Lots of people and lots of flags
Lots of people and lots of flags

The end of the war was already in sight in Heist-op-den-Berg in August 1944. On 29 August, the women and children of the...

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The battle of Geel
The battle of Geel

Antwerp had been liberated, but the Germans were entrenched behind the Albert Canal. The Command of the British 50th Nor...

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The Hell of Ten Aard
The Hell of Ten Aard

On 14 September 1944, the 15th Scottish Infantry Division managed to cross the Bocholt-Herentals Canal and form a small ...

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Liberated, but still under attack
Liberated, but still under attack

On March 6 1945, at around 10 pm, a German flying bomb struck Heuvelplein. The projectile came down on the corner of Nie...

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Ten days of shelter
Ten days of shelter

In September 1944, projectiles from Germans and British crossed each other for days over the Kempisch Kanaal at Mol-Donk...

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Last train to Auschwitz
Last train to Auschwitz

During World War II, the Nazis used the Dossin Barracks as an assembly camp for nearly 26,000 Jews, Roma and Sinti. Plan...

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Celebration and sadness in Gierle
Celebration and sadness in Gierle

In the final months before liberation, several aircraft crashed near Gierle. On 9 May 1944, a US B-24 bomber crashed at ...

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Quickly liberated, long wait
Quickly liberated, long wait

From 3 September 1944, the Germans began the retreat. They claimed everything with wheels, from bicycles to farm carts. ...

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Ardennenoffensive
Ardennenoffensive

Der letzte Vorstoß der Deutschen Als die Alliierten im Dezember 1944 bis zu den belgischen Ardennen vorgerückt waren, st...

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Der Atlantikwall in der Normandie
Der Atlantikwall in der Normandie

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 ...

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Die Schlacht um die Normandie
Die Schlacht um die Normandie

Fought between the iconic landings on 6 June 1944 and the liberation of Paris on 25 August, the Battle of Normandy is of...

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82. US-Luftlandedivision
82. US-Luftlandedivision

From 1943 to 1945, the 82nd U.S. Airborne Division was deployed in all of the important operations in western Europe. It...

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6. Juni 1944 : D-Day
6. Juni 1944 : D-Day

Der 6. Juni 1944 ging unter dem legendären Namen D-Day als Tag der alliierten Landung an der Küste der Normandie in die ...

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Befreiung Belgiens
Befreiung Belgiens

On 2 September 1944 allied troops crossed the Belgian border at diverse places. The process of liberation went fast: in ...

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Schlacht um Berlin
Schlacht um Berlin

Die letzte große Offensive des Zweiten Weltkriegs auf europäischem Boden Die Schlacht um Berlin war eine der letzten Sch...

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Die Befreiung von Paris
Die Befreiung von Paris

The liberation of Paris didn’t have Allied priority, but an uprising of the population against the Germans on 19 August ...

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Die Schlacht im Hürtgenwald
Die Schlacht im Hürtgenwald

Die längste Schlacht des Zweiten Weltkriegs auf deutschem Boden...

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