The Bastogne War Museum, inaugurated in 2014, serves as an example of hard-won peace by showing visitors the context, causes, events and consequences of World War II through the prism of the Ardennes Counteroffensive, a major battle in Bastogne, a Belgian region in the Ardennes. The Bastogne War Museum's exhibition room displays many objects recalling the fierce battle that took place in the Ardennes during the winter of 1944-1945. That battle forced Adolf Hitler's army to withdraw on the Eastern Front, precipitating the fall of Nazi Germans. The museum offers visitors optional audio-guided tours through four fictional characters: a German lieutenant, an American soldier, a young teacher from the Communal school of Bastogne and Emile Mostade, a 13-year-old boy.
