This is the major section of the site. Here you’ll find thousands of pictures of how the battlefields look nowadays. From Normandy, Flanders, the Ardennes, Arnhem, to Bratislava. This section is also great if you’re planning a trip to the battlefields yourself. These pages are picture heavy, so they can take some time to load.
In each section, you’ll find large thumbnails of al the sites in a section. You can skim the thumbnails to have a quick look of all the pictures inside, or click the thumbnail to see all the pictures in the album. When you click the thumbnail, you can subscribe to the album by RSS, view the pictures one by one or select them from the browser, last you can use the slideshow feature.
This large section of the site is divided in following topics:
Blitzkrieg 1939-1944
From the Blitzkrieg, the Battle of Britain and the naval battles in the Atlantic till D-Day, including the taking of Fort Eben Emael, the Maginot Line, Operation Dynamo, the Dieppe Raid and all other major battles in the European Theater before D-Day.
The invasion in Sicily and the war in Italy.
D-Day & The Battle of Normandy 6.6.1944-21.8.1944
The landing in Normandy and the fierce battles in the hedgerows till Operation Cobra and the Breakout of Normandy.
Race to the Rhine 21.8.1944-16.12.1944
The Race through France, Belgium and The Netherlands, including Operation Market Garden and the Battle of The Scheldt.
Battle of the Bulge 16.12.1944-25.1.1944
Hitler’s last gamble, the last German offensive on the Western Front to capture the port of Antwerp.
Hitler’s Last Days 25.1.1944-8.5.1944
From the battle of the Bulge, till the fall of Berlin, including the capture of the Luddendorf Bridge in Remagen and the Colmar Pocket.
Eastern Front
Hitler’s Quest for lebensraum int he East. The fierce fighting in Russia, the greatest conflict on earth.
Holocaust
Pictures of the Holocaust in Europe, the places where six million Jews were brutally murdered by the Nazi’s, like Auschwitz, Natzwiller-Struthof, Breendonk, Oradour Sur Glane, ...
Every section or sub section has it’s own slideshow capability on top of the page, and the ability to add comments (“voeg opmerking toe”) to every picture. You can jump through the pictures by clicking the next (“volgende”) or previous (“vorige”) buttons on the bottom of the page.
You can also subscribe to each section by RSS, so you will be notified when new pictures are added.
