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 | In early 1944, 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich was stationed in the southern French town of Montauban north of Toulouse to gain new equipment and freshly trained troops. After the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, Das Reich was ordered to make its way across the country to stop the Allied advance. In the days leading up to the Allied D-Day landings at Normandy, the local French Resistance ha... |  | 11/04/2009 | 12 | 
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 | On the Central Cemetery of Szcecin are the graves of soldiers who perished in World War 2. Among them are 3.012 soviet soldiers, 20 soviet citizens and 367 Polish soldiers.
There are also 33 Belgian and 6 Polish POW's buried on an other part of the cemetery.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/5249/Russian-and-Polish-War-Graves-Szczecin.htm | | 11/01/2009 | 9 |
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 | In order to maintain the graves of German soldiers who were killed in Poland in the Second World War, their graves are brought together from hundreds of locations to 13 large German war cemeteries. This started in 1989 and is not ended yet.
Neumark German war cemetery contains 9,600 graves. Ultimately 32,500 graves will be brought here together.
http://www.ww2museu... | | 11/01/2009 | 8 |
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 | Kasimovo at Leningrad Oblast on 21th May 1943 and photographed by Finnish Air Force.
The interpreter has found five R-5s / R-Zs, eight unknown single-engined planes, a Tomahawk, eleven LaGG-3s or La-5s, two Su-2s and a I-16. Total of 28 planes.
Finnish National Archive Sörnäinen. File PK 2266/1. | | 10/30/2009 | 21 |
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 | Lavansaari aerodrome in Gulf of Finland on 26th August 1943. The photo interpreter has marked down only three fighter aeroplanes at the north part of the runway but I can see two fighters taking off and an Douglas A-20 at a stand from a close-up.
Finnish National Archive Sörnäinen. File PK 2103/63. | | 10/30/2009 | 17 |
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 | Former Finnish Air Force aerodrome now used by the Soviet Air Force at Hallinkangas on 10th August 1944.
Finnish National Archive Sörnäinen. File PK 2266/1. | | 10/30/2009 | 10 |
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 | Morje aerodrome at Leningrad Oblast on 21st May 1943. There are no aeroplanes at the aerodrome and overall the place seems to be not in use.
Finnish National Archive Sörnäinen. File PK 2266/1. | | 10/30/2009 | 14 |
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 | "Lili Marleen" (a.k.a. "Lili Marlene", "Lily Marlene", "Lili Marlène" etc.) is a German love song, which became popular during World War II. The poem was originally titled "Das Mädchen unter der Laterne" (German for "the girl under the lantern"), but it became famous as "Lili Marleen".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili_Marleen | | 10/28/2009 | 13 |
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 | Janowska was a German Nazi labor, transit and concentration camp established September 1941 in occupied Poland on the outskirts of Lwów (Poland, today Ukraine). The camp was labeled Janowska after the nearby street's name ulica Janowska, nowadays Shevchenka street - Ukrainian: Вулиця Шевченка.
In ... | | 10/21/2009 | 574 |
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 | Sajmište concentration camp (Serbian Cyrillic: Концентрациони логор Сајмиште) was a Nazi concentration camp, located in the Independent State of Croatia, on the outskirts of Belgrade. It was established in December 1941 and shut down i... | | 10/21/2009 | 225 |
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 | Stp.Gr. Petten XVIb HL, Bpt 55a L 'Elektra-Sonne 5'
'Elektra-Sonne 5' has been used by the German navy and air force for navigation over long distances. The system contained several big antennas, approximately 100m high, which were used to send and receive signals. The Germans had build several of these stations along the entire European coast line (Atlantikwall). | | 10/06/2009 | 270 |
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 | This yacht belonged to Karl Dönitz, was a German naval Commander who served in the Imperial German Navy during World War I, and during World War II. A military trophy of the USSR after the World War II. This photo is made in the Southern bay of Sevastopol. On the yacht repair work at this time was spent. | | 09/26/2009 | 80 |
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 | The House and grounds were used during WW2 to train spies and approx 5,000 of the general public (Auxiliary Units) in sabotage and guerrilla warfare techniques.
The house mysteriously burned down in the early 1950th and the remains were demolished 1953. Wher the house stood a garden was build.
http://www.coleshillhouse.com/ | | 09/25/2009 | 37 |
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 | It's a part of the defence line of the Grenzbrigade 4 Westlicher Abschnitt (BL/SO) and used by Division Gempen. | | 09/24/2009 | 251 |
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 | When you have passed the city Skagen you can drive up to the utmost north east point of Denmark where the Germans made some fortifications to defence and to control the entrance of the Baltic sea.
Along the road Nr. 40 just outside Skagen you see a camping/holiday resort.
You can start at the beach and do your search in the direction of the lighthouse. You will encounter ... | | 09/24/2009 | 72 |
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 | Private John M. Steele was the American paratrooper made famous in the movie, "The Longest Day" who landed in St. Mère-Église, the first village in Normandy liberated by the Americans on D-Day - June 6th, 1944...
During the first night of Operation Overlord (June 5-6, 1944), American soldiers of the 82nd Airborne parachuted into the area west of St. Mère-Église in succe... | | 09/24/2009 | 99 |
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 | The Tehran Conference (codenamed Eureka) was the meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill between November 28 and December 1, 1943, most of which was held at the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran. It was the first World War II conference among the Big Three (the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom) in which Stalin was present. It succeeded the Cairo... | | 09/24/2009 | 25 |
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 | The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, was the wartime meeting from 4 February 1945 to 11 February 1945 among the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union—President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin, respectively—for the purpose of discussing Europe's po... | | 09/24/2009 | 39 |
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 | Elbe Day, April 25, 1945, was the date Soviet and American troops met at the River Elbe, near Torgau in Germany, marking an important step toward the end of the World War II in Europe. The first contact was made between patrols near Strehla, when First Lieutenant Albert Kotzebue crossed the River Elbe in a boat with three men of an intelligence and reconnaissance platoon. On the east bank, they... | | 09/24/2009 | 23 |
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 | At the start of World War II, the Army took over the existing airfield at Harris Neck for training pilots. After WWII, the Army gave the land to McIntosh County. Today it is part of the Harris Neck Wildlife Refuge.
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM48RF_Harris_Neck_Army_Airfield_Townsend_GA | | 09/24/2009 | 39 |
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 | Site of training facilities for 4th Infantry Division--the first U.S. Troops to land on Utah Beach, Normandy, France, 6 June 1944.
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM70BA_Fort_Gordon_Augusta_GA | | 09/24/2009 | 16 |
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 | This enameling factory was managed by the Sudeten-German industrialist. He employed cheap, Jewish labor. He treated his Jewish employees well and succeeded in saving 1.100 of them from the Nazi claws by moving them to a labor camp near his new enterprise in Brünnlitz in the Czech Republic. After the war Schindler was awarded by Yad Vashem (Israel’s Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Autho... | | 09/24/2009 | 40 |
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 | This stone quarry was a component of the concentration camp Plaszow.
Many years the internees of camp Plaszow where forced to do forced labor in this quarry. Many people will remind this spot from scenes of the famous movie Schindler's List, as well as the notorious SS-Hauptsturmführer Amon Göth, former commander of Plaszow. Notoriously because of his inhuman treatment towards the inter... | | 09/24/2009 | 41 |
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 | In order to maintain the graves of German soldiers who were killed in Poland in the Second World War, their graves are brought together from hundreds of locations to 13 large German war cemeteries. This started in 1989 and is not ended yet.
Laurahütte German war cemetery contains 22,860 graves. Ultimately 40,000 graves will be brought here together.
http://www.ww2m... | | 09/24/2009 | 28 |
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 | The Russian war cemetery of Wroclaw contains the burials of 760 soviet soldiers. Among those buried here are 6 Hero's of the Soviet Union.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/5449 | | 09/21/2009 | 213 |
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