The D-Day Landings and the Battle of Normandy

Your holiday lodging in "self-catering gites charme et confort " are at only 40 min from the Memorial, 1 hour from D-Day landing Beaches, Omaha Beach, Pointe du Hoc, port artificiel d' Arromanches and Colleville sur mer 's american cimetry ( 9 387 graves ) and 1 hour too from Sainte Mère Eglise and Utah Beach ( Airborne Museum );
Saint James 's americain cimetry at 30 mn ( 4 410 graves )

 The Caen Memorial and international Park

History for Peace

* How could the slaughter of 1914-18 lead to even more terrible tragedy ?The Memorial makes us see and understand .
* Going down a long spiral, screens set into the wall broadcast the news of the period .
* Nuremberg : a ranting speech by the distator . Rethondes : conversation between Weygand and Huntziger . London : General de Gaulle's call to arms .
* These voices open up on the dark years of the Occupation . Resisters and collaborationists face each other in the shadows .
* The gaze of the martyrs of the Shoah pierces the darkness as we move on .
* Next door, total war rages : technology paves the way to the Liberation .

 Hope, Freedom and Peace

* The Allied D-Day Landing unfolds on 3 screens.
* The " Great Book " of the Battle of Normandy recounts the hundred days of fierce fighting . The film " Hope " evokes other conflicts of the 20th century .
* At the foot of the Memorial, the Nobel Peace Pricewinners' Gallery brings hope for a new dawn .