Scopri gli eventi chiave e le storie di coloro che hanno vissuto questo difficile periodo storico.
Durante la seconda guerra mondiale gli occupatori tedeschi uccisero sei milioni di ebrei in tutta Europa. Rose Jakobs er...
#Biografia
Rosie the Riveter is the symbol for all the women that worked in the war industry during the Second World War. As the me...
Durante la campagna d’Italia, Sergio Pivetta era un cadetto nelle Truppe Alpine del Regio Esercito Italiano. Nel 1944, n...
Stella Czajkowska is one of the relatively few Jews who survived the war, despite the ghetto, the gas chambers in Auschw...
Svetoslao N. Hlopoff arrivò nella Francia orientale come soldato dell’Esercito degli Stati Uniti d’America nel dicembre ...
The Reifeisen family was an ‘ordinary’ Jewish family, whose fate is exemplary for the destruction of European Jewry duri...
After Italy announced its withdrawal from the Second World War in early September 1943, the Wehrmacht deported Italian s...
Durante la campagna d’Italia, il principe ereditario Umberto di Savoia visitò spesso il fronte. Inoltre, alla vigilia de...
Vincenzo Cesare Dapino fu il primo comandante del Primo Raggruppamento Motorizzato, un’unità del Regio Esercito Italiano...
Werner Krüger era un soldato tedesco e prestò servizio nella 9a Divisione Panzer SS “Hohenstaufen”. Nel settembre del 19...
Wilhelm Keitel served as chief of the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht from 1938 to 1945. He loyally supported Hitler’s ...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower was placed at the head of the allied forces responsible for the landings in France in June ...
Il generale statunitense George Patton si è fatto una reputazione in Nord Africa e in Sicilia. I tedeschi temevano la su...
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...
