Scopri gli eventi chiave e le storie di coloro che hanno vissuto questo difficile periodo storico.
A day after she landed at Schiphol airport, after travelling from far off Kurgan, Zoya Kozyreva stood at her father’s gr...
#Biografia
Konstantin Grigoryevich Butorin was born in 1909 in the far east of Kazakhstan. At ten years of age he leaves the parent...
Daughter Alexandra: “My daddy was born in the village of Zudilovo near Omsk (20 May 1917). Since childhood he worked on...
His stomach is grumbling louder than gunfire in the fields around Smolensk, observes Kazikhan. Sure, the battles at the ...
The Merlinettes were the first female soldiers allowed into the French Army. Their unit was created in 1942 and they pla...
Private Sidney Cornell was a British parachutist that participated in Operation Varsivity in March 1945 in France. He di...
Audie Leon Murphy was the most decorated American soldier of the Second World War. He received every military combat awa...
Waverly Bernard Woodson Jr. was an African American corporal who came ashore on Omaha beach in Normandy on D-Day. Despit...
After the death of Helene Kröller-Müller in 1939, Sam van Deventer becomes the new director of the Rijksmuseum Kröller-M...
#Storia
The Channel Islands were left undefended by British forces throughout WWII and lived under German Occupation for five lo...
#Storyline
The concentration camp in Stutthof was initially founded to eliminate and persecute Poles. Later in the war the role of ...
By 1945 it was clear that Nazi-Germany would lose the war. In May the Czech population rose up against the German occupy...
The battle of Berlin was one of the last battles of the Second World War in Europe. The war that had proceeded from Berl...
Operation Cannonshot was the code name for the Canadian crossing of the IJssel at Gorssel and Wilp on April 12, 1945. Af...
The Allied Rhineland Offensive comprised several large-scale military operations during the last months of the Second Wo...
In December 1944, when the Allies had advanced to the Belgian Ardennes, they were completely surprised by three German a...
As D-Day approached, Kent became the stage for one of the War’s greatest deception plans, Operation Fortitude South. In ...
The liberation of the Alsace happened in stages. Logistical difficulties, broken terrain, stubborn German resistance, an...
In May 1940 the Netherlands was occupied by German forces. It would take five years before they could be ousted. The fin...
Operation Market Garden was one of the largest Allied operations of the Second World War. It took place in September 194...
During the autumn and winter of 1944/45, the longest battle of the Second World War on German soil took place in the Hue...
In August 1944 the Allies broke out of Normandy. The speed of the allied advance was so great that they outran their sup...
On 2 September 1944 allied troops crossed the Belgian border at diverse places. The process of liberation went fast: in ...
The liberation of Paris didn’t have Allied priority, but an uprising of the population against the Germans on 19 August ...
