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German Navigation Beacon Station near Petten

German Navigation Beacon Station near Petten

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).
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The Former Nazi Yacht Hela in Sevastopol

The Former Nazi Yacht Hela in Sevastopol

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.
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Coleshill House - Home of Churchills Underground Army

Coleshill House - Home of Churchills Underground Army

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/
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Dragon Teeth near Aesch

Dragon Teeth near Aesch

It's a part of the defence line of the Grenzbrigade 4 Westlicher Abschnitt (BL/SO) and used by Division Gempen.
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03 Stutzpunktgruppe Skagen sperrbatterie

03 Stutzpunktgruppe Skagen sperrbatterie

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 ...
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D-Day - Private John Steele hanging from church tower

D-Day - Private John Steele hanging from church tower

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...
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The Tehran Conference 1943

The Tehran Conference 1943

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...
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The Yalta Conference 1945

The Yalta Conference 1945

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...
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Historic Soviet-American meeting in Torgau 1945

Historic Soviet-American meeting in Torgau 1945

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...
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Harris Neck Army Airfield

Harris Neck Army Airfield

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
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Fort Gordon Memorial

Fort Gordon Memorial

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
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Oskar Schindlers Emalia Works

Oskar Schindlers Emalia Works

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...
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Stone Quarry - Concentration Camp Plaszow

Stone Quarry - Concentration Camp Plaszow

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...
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German War Cemetery Laurahuette

German War Cemetery Laurahuette

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...
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Russian War Cemetery Wroclaw

Russian War Cemetery Wroclaw

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
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Polish War Cemetery Wroclaw

Polish War Cemetery Wroclaw

On the Polish war cemetery of Wroclaw are 603 burials from the Second World War.

There are Polish soldiers and insurgents of the Warsaw uprising buried. The grave of admiral Stefan Frankowski can also be found among the graves.

http://www.ww2museums.com/article/5208

Stefan Frankowski (1887-1940) was a Polish commodore, posthumously promoted to count...
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German War Cemetery Gross Naedlitz

German War Cemetery Gross Naedlitz

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.

Groß Nädlitz German war cemetery contains 12,500 graves. Ultimately 18,000 graves will be brought here together.

http://www.ww...
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Kostrzyn nad Odra remains after total bombing

Kostrzyn nad Odra remains after total bombing

At the outbreak of World War II Küstrin had 24,000 inhabitants. However, due to Allied air raids on the railway hub and local factories and especially during the Battle of the Oder-Neisse and Battle of the Seelow Heights, almost 95% of the buildings were destroyed (including all 32 of the city's factories) and the town was generally deserted. The suburb Alt-Drewitz (modern Drzewice, one of Kost...
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Air Raid Shelter Strzegomska

Air Raid Shelter Strzegomska

This air raid shelter (in German: Hochbunker) was built between 1942 and 1943. It offered protection during bombardments. The bunker is 25 meters high. The outer walls has a thickness of 1,10 meter. During the siege of Breslau (now: Wroclaw) in 1945, the air raid shelter served as Festunglazaret II.

Address:ul. Legnicka, Wroclaw
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Air Raid Shelter Slowianska

Air Raid Shelter Slowianska

This air raid shelter (in German: Hochbunker) offered protection during bombardments.

Address:ul. Slowianska, Wroclaw
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Air Raid Shelter Ladna

Air Raid Shelter Ladna

This air raid shelter (in German: Hochbunker) offered protection during bombardments.

Address:ul. Ladna, Wroclaw
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German Airfield Rom

German Airfield Rom

A few days after the occupation of Denmark, the local Danish authorities were informed by the Germans that an airfield was to be established on an approx. 600 ha. area to the south of Rom church.

Work started that year and by 1941, the grass airstrips, the concrete taxiways, the dispersal bays, the ammunition and fuel depots and the anti-aircraft defences had taken form. The 43 c...
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Soviet T-34 Tank Westerplatte

Soviet T-34 Tank Westerplatte

On the Westerplatte peninsula stands a soviet T-34/76 (mod. 1943) tank.

Address:Westerplatte, Gdansk
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Bunker Sep

Bunker Sep

This bunker was a component of the Polish defence sector Jastarnia, that consisted of 4 main bunkers and a couple of small defence works.
Most of these bunker were still in construction when the German invasion of 1939 was launched.
"Sep" is a stronger type bunker in compare of the other sector Jastarnia defence works.
It was protected against impacts of 220 mm sh...
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Light Casemat Jastarnia

Light Casemat Jastarnia

This bunker was a component of the Polish defence sector Jastarnia, that consisted of 4 main bunkers and a couple of small defence works. Most of these bunker were still in construction when the German invasion of 1939 was launched.
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