Day: Second World War
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"Stolen Memory" - Special exhibition at the Musée Mémorial Walbourg 1870-1945 (FR)
From mid-December, we have the good fortune and honour of hosting the exhibition #StolenMemory, sponsored by the Bad Arolsen Archives and supported by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, [...].
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Peace and the French - A day of remembrance at Regelbau 10 in Rastatt (DE)
Peace and the French - A day of remembrance at Regelbau 10 in Rastatt, organised by the Rastatt Historical Society.
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War belongs in a museum - Kehl-Neumühl camouflage bunker (DE)
End and beginning - On 8 May 2025, 80 years will have passed since the end of the Second World War in Europe. When the guns finally fell silent, more than 60 million victims had [...]
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Special opening day of the Hornisgrinde bunker (DE)
Special opening day of the Hornisgrinde bunker on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the capture of the Hornisgrinde by French troops, who only left the mountain peak again in 1999, with guided tours of the traces of the German and French [...]
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Day of Remembrance 1945 in Hatten (FR)
Day of Remembrance in Hatten in northern Alsace Wreath-laying ceremony, historic vehicles drive past, commemorative event at the cemetery, exhibition with historic pictures and vehicles
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Commemorative trip to Northern Alsace (FR)
Commemorative trip with two historic vehicle convoys in northern Alsace, ending in Lauterbourg.
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Remembrance weekend UNDERTONE and the 2nd liberation (DE/FR)
From mid-March 1945 to the end of March 1945, Operation UNDERTONE led the Allies through the Siegfried Line to the Rhine and led to the collapse of the German troops west of the [...]
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Excursion in the Colmar region (FR)
After French forces reached the Rhine at Mulhouse and Strasbourg in November 1944, the Alsace bridgehead held by the Wehrmacht protruded like a bulge into the Allied front. Heavy [...]
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Remembrance weekend NORDWIND, Upper Rhine (DE/FR)
Following the Battle of the Bulge, the Wehrmacht launched its last major offensive in the west - NORDWIND - in the night from 31 December 1944 to 1 January 1945. The aim was to achieve victory with several [...]
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Remembrance of the destruction of Küstrin in 1945, Kostrzyn nad Odra (PL)
Public event in the fortress Kostrzyn nad Odra (PL) to commemorate the almost complete destruction of the city of Küstrin by the Red Army in spring 1945.