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 | 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... |  | 09/21/2009 | 23 | 
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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.
Groß Nädlitz German war cemetery contains 12,500 graves. Ultimately 18,000 graves will be brought here together.
http://www.ww... | | 09/21/2009 | 39 |
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 | 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... | | 09/21/2009 | 56 |
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 | 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 | | 09/12/2009 | 585 |
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 | This air raid shelter (in German: Hochbunker) offered protection during bombardments.
Address:ul. Slowianska, Wroclaw | | 09/12/2009 | 52 |
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 | This air raid shelter (in German: Hochbunker) offered protection during bombardments.
Address:ul. Ladna, Wroclaw | | 09/12/2009 | 54 |
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 | 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... | | 09/12/2009 | 74 |
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 | On the Westerplatte peninsula stands a soviet T-34/76 (mod. 1943) tank.
Address:Westerplatte, Gdansk | | 09/12/2009 | 114 |
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 | 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... |  | 09/12/2009 | 63 |
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 | 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. | | 09/12/2009 | 27 |
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 | These type of reinforced Polish trenches can be found in great numbers along the east coast of Hel peninsula | | 09/12/2009 | 49 |
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 | A Polish coastal battery was part of the Rejonu Umocnionego Hel. The main armanant composed of two 75mm "Schneider" guns.
During the Battle of Hel in 1939, this battery took down 30 German fighterplanes.
The battery today:
It is currently abandoned.
Address:Lesna, Hel | | 09/12/2009 | 37 |
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 | A German coast battery stands on the island of Wolin and defended the bay of Pomerania against assaults from sea.
Battery "Goeben" is constructed between 1938 and 1939 and consisted of a fire-control tower (see picture) and three 283 mm canons.
In 1940, these canons were dismantled and brought to Norway.
Battery "Goeben" today:
The batter... | | 09/12/2009 | 36 |
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 | The factory for synthetic petrol (German: Hydrierwerke Pölitz - Aktiengeselschaft) at Police has an atrocious history.
The construction of this complex started in 1937 as one of the 12 factories of I.G. Farben. The fuel which was produced here had been intended for the German army.
The outbreak of World War 2, speed up the grow process because of the inflow of foreign labourers fr... | | 09/12/2009 | 47 |
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 | Museum with life-size dioramas, old military vehicles, authentic photos and historical ground.
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Tours around the former battlefield of Poteau with two original halftracks.
For the current visitor information, please visit the website of the museum : http://www.museum-poteau44.be/ | | 09/12/2009 | 24 |
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 | Fortress Eben-Emael, a beautiful name for an impregnable fortress.<br> Unfortunately, less then 50 German paratroopers managed to silence the fortress in less then 15 minutes.
In 1988, the fortress was re-opened and it became able to visit the fortress. Nowadays, a lot of work is done by the volunteers of the fortress, to give you the most realistic impression of what happened ove... | | 09/12/2009 | 40 |
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 | Here a trace, there a memory. Only if you drive into the hamlet of La Gleize via the Churchroad, you feel the ominous strengths of that dark December month. Because there, still as massive and threatening as it was on Saturday 16 December 1944, when it rattled over the border for that daring adventure, Obersturmbannführer Jochen Peipers last Tiger-tank stands.
This Tiger II (Köni... | | 09/12/2009 | 82 |
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 | Small airfied used during WWII by the German forces.
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM8CH_Flugsttzpunkt_Kommando_18_XI_Rye | | 09/12/2009 | 32 |
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 | This artillery piece is a British Ordnance QF 25 pounder later refitted with a 105mm barrel by both the Belgium and Luxemburgian Army.
Address:Place Capitaine Lespagnard, 4190, Werbomont | | 09/10/2009 | 38 |
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 | American Half-track vehicle, complete with machine gun.
From the village, pass the river Amblève, here -directly on the opposite side- on the right is the Half-track.
Address:Stavelot | | 09/10/2009 | 36 |
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 | In the village Meyerode outside the school is a German 75mm anti-tank gun. Opposite the school is a bar, this was once the Headquarters for a time of SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer und Generaloberst der Waffen-SS Josef "Sepp" Dietrich commander of the 6.Panzer Armee. | | 09/10/2009 | 43 |
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 | The reinforced position of the city of Liege (Belgium) was a part of an extensive network of fortresses as a protection against an invasion by an enemy. It forms an arc that reaches from Comblain-au-Pont to Visé.
The defence lines around Liege stretched over a length of 60 kilometres and comprised strong ‘modern’ blockhouses (Tancremont, Battice and Aubin-Neufchâteau) and smalle... | | 09/10/2009 | 38 |
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 | A boxcar that has been used to transport prisoners to the camps during the Second World War.
Address:Bihain 21a, Vielsalm | | 09/10/2009 | 33 |
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 | On the village-square of Burdinne are two German PAK-40 anti-tank guns located next to the war memorial of Burdinne.
Address:Rue de Huy, Burdinne | | 09/10/2009 | 39 |
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 | In 1939 the Belgian government decided to built a military airbase near Chièvres. The preparatory work starting at the end of the same year.
After the German invasion of Belgium on May 10 1940, the Germans occupied the area on May 19 1940 and install the JG 26; that will remain until early June.
In June 1940 started the construction of the buildings of the German airbase.
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