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4 days ago · Ferdinand Foch. Second Battle of Ypres, (April 22–May 25, 1915), second of three costly battles in World War I at Ypres (now Ieper), in western Flanders. The battle marked the Germans’ first use of poison gas as a weapon. Although the gas attack opened a wide hole in the Allied line, the Germans failed to exploit that advantage.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 days ago · The In Flanders Fields Museum presents the story of the First World War in the West Flanders front region. It is located in the rebuilt Cloth Hall of Ypres, an important symbol of wartime hardship and later recovery. From this symbolic accommodation, the museum pays great attention to the contemporary landscape as one of the last tangible witnesses of the war history.
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2 days ago · The album tells the extraordinary story behind the flooding of the Yser plain which halts the enemy’s advance across West Flanders. The idea comes from Emeric Feys, a judge from Veurne, who uncovers documents proving that the same tactics were successfully used to frustrate a previous invading army – the French – in 1793.
4 days ago · The scars of the Great War, which raged from 1914-18, remain visible in Europe more than 100 years after the fighting stopped. The conflict left its mark in a variety of forms, from bunkers and trenches to the scattered war memorabilia that remains buried beneath the former battlefields.
2 days ago · In Belgium, a total of 18,000 Jews were deported in 100 days in 1942, followed by 8,000 in the following years. Many of them were betrayed by locals or by their supposed protectors as soon as the money ran out. A large number of Jews were active in the Belgian resistance. Just under 10% of the Jews in Belgium before the war were Belgian nationals.
5 days ago · After lunch the tour will lead to the Tyne Cot Cemetery, the largest Commonwealth cemetery in the world and Hill 60 or Hill 62. We also scheduled a stop at the Flanders Fields Museum where you`ll discover the stories behind the grueling tranche war. As a conclusion to this full day trip we`ll attend the Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate.
1 day ago · Belgium, [A] officially the Kingdom of Belgium, [B] is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the south, and the North Sea to the west.
