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 | Gorch Fock was the pseudonym of the German author Johann Wilhelm Kinau (22 August 1880 - 31 May 1916). Other pseudonyms he used were Jakob Holst and Giorgio Focco.
Kinau was the eldest child of fisherman Heinrich Wilhelm Kinau and his wife, Metta Holst, on the Elbe island of Finkenwerder, near Hamburg. In 1895 he was apprenticed to his uncle, the merchant August Kinau in Geestemü... |  | 11/01/2009 | 15 | 
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 | The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria on 28 June 1914 in Bosnia-Herzegovina - then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire - brought the tensions between Austria-Hungary and Serbia to a head. This triggered a chain of international events that embroiled Russia and the major European powers. Thirty-seven days later the world was at war.
The heir to the Austro-Hungar... | | 10/28/2009 | 22 |
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 | The Italian war cemetery for fallen soldiers from the First World War, also contains the graves of 20 Italian POW's from the Second World War. They died in German captivity (1943).
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/5272 | | 09/21/2009 | 328 |
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 | This French Military Cemetery is a reminder that for the opening of the war the northern flank of the Ypres Salient was held by the French Army (with the Belgian Army on their left).
There are 3547 soldiers buried here plus a mass grave for 609 unknown.
http://www.webmatters.net/belgium/ww1_potyze_fr.htm | | 09/18/2009 | 47 |
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 | Yorkshire Trench was the name given to a front line position dug by units of the 49th (West Riding) Division near the Yser canal at Boesinghe in 1915/16.
What can be seen at this site is a whole section of the trench, at its original depth, with fire-steps and loopholes, and the entrances to two sections of tunnels and dugouts. The dugouts probably date from a later period, 1916... | | 09/18/2009 | 44 |
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 | A large crater was blown at Hooge in July 1915. This occurred during a time of relative quiet on the British part of the Western Front, when few major assaults were made. Nonetheless, the average casualty rate for the British and Commonwealth forces was around 300 per day. Hooge, having been earlier lost, had been retaken in May 1915. On the 2nd of June, Hooge Chateau was lost.
T... | | 09/18/2009 | 56 |
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 | In 1915 two army chaplains – Rev. P.S.B. 'Tubby' Clayton and Rev. Neville Talbot - acquired an old Belgian town house in Poperinghe, and converted it for their own use as a veritable ‘oasis’ out of the line for troops going to and from the trenches. They named it ‘Talbot House’ after Neville’s brother and Clayton’s friend, Lieutenant Gilbert Talbot of the Rifle Brigade who was killed at Hooge ... | | 09/18/2009 | 30 |
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 | This small area of woodland was taken by German troops in 1914, and during the winter of 1914/15 a system of trenches was constructed in the what the Allies called 'Croonaert Wood', but which the Germans named 'Baynerwald' ('Bavarian Wood') as it was Bavarian units which had first been stationed here. Adolf Hitler had served here in 1914/15, and was awarded an Iron Cross close by, while working... | | 09/18/2009 | 36 |
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 | This museum was started in 1919 by the grandfather of the present owner, who preserved part of the trench system that remained in what the British Army called Sanctuary Wood. The wood got its name in the First Battle of Ypres in 1914, when men separated from their regiments came to this wooded area - a safe area away from the main fighting, a place of 'sanctuary' - to await to rejoin their unit... | | 09/18/2009 | 35 |
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 | The Hooge Crater Museum/Café is located on the old Menin Road, opposite Hooge Crater Cemetery, and close to the Hooge Chateau grounds. Hooge was the scene of almost continuous fighting during the Great War, and was on the front line from 1915-17. During this period both sides tunneled underneath each other, blowing huge charges of explosive - mine craters littered the area of the main road wher... | | 09/18/2009 | 25 |
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 | A monument for all the danes that was killed in World War 1. It contains the names of all the danes that was killed in the war. 4140 danes was killed in the war.
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM5ZQP_Mindeparken_Aarhus
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 | At Fromelles Hitler was stationed in 1916 with the 16th. Infantery Regiment.
For a long time it was thaught he was staying in a bunker west of fromelles. Often referred to as Hitler's bunker but this is wrong ! Hitler didn't recognize this bunker during his visit.
A sign was placed here referring to Hitler's bunker but it is gone or removed by now.
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 | In Fromelles and Fournes-en-Weppes Hitler was stationed in 1916 and had a billet (lodging for troops).
On June 26th. 1940 Hitler visited the sites again.
http://pierreswesternfront.punt.nl/?id=415454&r=1&tbl_archief=&
Around the cities a lot of bunkers can be found. | | 09/10/2009 | 125 |
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 | The German flying aces of Jagdgeschwader 1, Manfred von Richthofen's squadron, lived in this castle when not flying. | | 09/10/2009 | 29 |
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 | Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron) was stationed here with his Jagdgeschwader 1. It was also here he took off to his last air battle on april 21st. 1918.
The successor of The Red Baron became Wilhelm Reinhard who was killed during a test flight of his plane. Wilhelm Reinhard's successor became Herman Göring.
http://www.michaelonealaviationart.com/cappy_aerodrom... | | 09/10/2009 | 39 |
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 | Canakkale Turkish Martyrs' Memorial is the main Turkish memorial on the Gallipoli peninsula. The Turks know the campaign under the name Canakkale, the town on the Asiatic side of the Dardenelles that was heavily fortified and was the main supply port for reinforcements to the peninsula (and collection point for their wounded) then. The main towns on the peninsula, Krithia and Maidos had been bu... | | 09/04/2009 | 83 |
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 | All Commonwealth cemeteries of the Battle of Gallipoli from Februar 19th. 1915 – Januar 9th. 1916. | | 09/04/2009 | 82 |
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 | The Helles Memorial serves the dual function of Commonwealth battle memorial for the whole Gallipoli campaign and place of commemoration for many of those Commonwealth servicemen who died there and have no known grave. The United Kingdom and Indian forces named on the memorial died in operations throughout the peninsula, the Australians at Helles. There are also panels for those who died or wer... | | 09/04/2009 | 33 |
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 | This war cemetery, an ossuary, started after the First World War, and there are 8,582 soldiers from Austria-Hungary and Germany buried here.
In 1956, 847 German soldiers who were killed in the Second World War were buried around the ossuary.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/3439 | | 09/04/2009 | 29 |
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 | Mata Hari was the stage name of Margaretha Geertruida "Grietje" Zelle (7 August 1876, Leeuwarden – 15 October 1917, Vincennes), a Dutch-Frisian exotic dancer and courtesan who was executed by firing squad for espionage during World War I.
On 13 February, 1917, Mata Hari was arrested in her room at the Hotel Plaza Athénée in Paris. She was put on trial, accused of spying... | | 08/31/2009 | 45 |
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 | The armistice treaty between the Allies and Germany was signed in a railway carriage in Compiègne Forest on 11 November 1918, and marked the end of the First World War on the Western Front. Principal signatories were Marshal Ferdinand Foch, the Allied Commander-in-chief, and Matthias Erzberger, Germany's representative.
The Armistice was agreed at 5 AM on 11 November, to come int... | | 08/31/2009 | 36 |
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 | File contains placemarks to various German World War 1 cemeteries in France with links from Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V.
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 | File contains placemarks to various German World War 1 cemeteries in Belgium with links from Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V.
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 | File contains all Commonwealth cemeteries with thousands of graves from The Great War in France. Also many churchyards with graves of fallen soldiers are located. For each placemark there is a link with infos from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Churchyards with a few graves aren't showed in this file but can be seen in the enclosed link.
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 | The Germans need for airships grew fast in the first months of the war, and already in September 1914 it was suggested to build an airship base in Tønder. The first 2 sheds where finished in March 1915. Their dimensions were 540 feet long, 95 feet high and 120 feet wide.
On the March 23 1915 the first airship, Parceval PL 25, arrived in Tønder. This non-rigid airship was based in... | | 08/29/2009 | 47 |
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