page_title: Liberation Route Europe
section_title: Gelderland
hierarchical_section_title: Liberation Route Europe / The Route / The Netherlands / Gelderland
caption_attribution_description: English: Front Airborne Museum 'Hartenstein'
context_page_description: Liberation Route Europe is an international remembrance trail that connects the main regions along the advance of the Western Allied Forces toward the liberation of Europe and final stage of the Second World War. The route started in 2008 as a Dutch regional initiative in the Arnhem-Nijmegen area and then developed into a transnational route that was officially inaugurated in Arromanches on June 6, 2014, during the Normandy D-day commemorations. The route goes from Southern England, through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands to Berlin, in Germany and then extends to the Czech Republic and Poland. The southern route starts in Italy. As a form of remembrance tourism LRE aims to unfold these Allied offensives of 1944 and 1945 in one narrative combining the different perspectives and points of view. By combining locations with personal stories of people who fought and suffered there, it gives visitors the opportunity to follow the Allied march and visit significant sites from war cemeteries to museums and monuments but also events and commemorations. In April 2019, Liberation Route Europe became a certified Cultural Route of the Council of Europe.
context_section_description: The main historical places on the route here are Arnhem (Battle of Arnhem)  Nijmegen (Operation Market Garden), Groesbeek (Operation Veritable), Wageningen (German capitulation), Oosterbeek (Operation Market Garden), Otterlo (Liberation of the East) and Lent (Men's Island).
  Important remembrance sites
  Museums
  Airborne Museum Hartenstein
  National Liberation Museum 1944-1945
  Museum De Casteelse Poort
  Cemeteries
  Airborne War Cemetery Arnhem-Oosterbeek
  Canadian War Cemetery Groesbeek
  Jonkerbos War Cemetery Nijmegen
  Loenen Field of Honour
  Memorial for the mass grave Huissen
  Audiospots: 76
caption: The Airborne Museum in Hartenstein
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