ProRail zegt dat er op het spoor materialen zijn gevonden die duiden op sabotage.

De filmbeelden laten zien dat het Nederlandse leger 86 jaar geleden weerstand heeft geboden, bijvoorbeeld door bruggen op te blazen. Toch weten de Duitsers het gebied snel te veroveren.

We are now 50 Q&As in, and the questions keep getting better, sharper, and more human! This milestone edition of The Old Front Line is built around four listener prompts that take us from the small, intimate scale of one soldier’s photograph to the vast, uneasy scale of a battlefield that never fully stops giving things back to the surface.

Step onto the Western Front in Flanders as we explore the area near to Ypres known as The Bluff. In this episode we uncover the story of the fighting here in February-March 1916, when British and German forces struggled for control of the high ground overlooking Ypres. Using contemporary accounts and battlefield evidence, we explain why this small rise in the landscape mattered so much and how the battle unfolded.

Handwritten documents from the Holocaust, whether in the form of diaries, personal letters or official forms, sometimes seem to have been written in an unreadable scrawl. Often, the reason they…

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Beladen erfgoed: De bunker van nazi-Rijkscommissaris Seyss-Inquart in Wassenaar staat vanaf volgende maand te koop. Na veel discussie, en de koper mag er niet zomaar alles mee doen.

Is there a ‘culture’ surrounding The Old Front Line? One that helps define it and enables us to understand that landscape of the First World War? If so, what is it, and how can we under…

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De grootste bunker van Nederland zou gedeeltelijk worden gesloopt, maar zal nu waarschijnlijk behouden blijven.