We bring you face to face with people who lived through the invasion, occupation and liberation of Western Europe. The video clips below are just a taste of the interviews you watch before meeting these fascinating people. Already knowing their stories allows you to jump right into conversation, giving you a chance to interact with living history.
Meet and talk with English people in the Aldbourne area who housed the paratroopers. Learn what it was like for the two cultures to interact for nearly 9 months
Meet and talk with people from Normandy to understand what it was like to live under 4 years of German occupation and then be liberated on D-Day. Learn what impact that day and the battles afterward had on that area and their lives.
Meet and talk with Dutch people who watched the skies as they filled with parachutes on Sept. 17th during operation Market-Garden. Talk with people from the Dutch resistance and learn what it was like to be a child during the war.
Meet and talk with Belgians in the Ardennes area who lived through the Battle of the Bulge. Hear stories of courage from resistance fighters and people who had their houses change hands several times in the battle.
Meet people like Ernst Grube, a child during WWII with a Jewish mother, he recollects clearly the atrocities that were committed against his kin. He was placed in a Jewish home for children, and watched more than half of them being transported to the death camps.
Meet people like Franz Joseph Müller, a fair haired German boy who was forced to join the Hitler Youth. Very quickly, he discovered that fascism was tearing up his country. During his rebellious military service in France he was captured by the Gestapo and tried before the high court in Munich for treason.
Meet people like Max Mannheimer, who was born in 1920 in Czechoslovakia and survived the death camp of Ausschwitz-Birkenau, the concentration camps of Dachau and Theresienstadt and the Warsaw Ghetto. Having lost six relatives in the death camps, he recalls every detail like it was yesterday.
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