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Items related to World War II (1939-1945) |
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 | Location of sunken subs around the world.
colored year of sinking
1945 light green
1944 yellow
1943 red
1942 purple
Informations are from uboat.net. Thx. |  | 09/21/2005 | 972 | 
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 | Partially demolished Flak-tower located in a park in central Berlin, two corners are still remaining. The fortress is one of six Hitler sketched himself. Built by Italian and French workers in 1941-42, each complex could hold around 15,000 civilians.
Partially demolished by French forces in 1948-51, the debris is landscaped around the base of the towers, but not on the north side, becau... | | 09/20/2005 | 1,060 |
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 | The German Resistance Memorial Center is located in the Bendler Block in Berlin’s Mitte district, at the historic site of the attempted coup of July 20, 1944. On July 20, 1952, on the initiative of relatives of the resistance fighters of July 20, 1944, Eva Olbricht, widow of General Friedrich Olbricht, laid the cornerstone for a memorial in the courtyard of the Bendler Block.
Th... |  | 09/18/2005 | 602 |
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 | Barracks of the Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler in Berlin-Lichterfelde. After WW 2 used by US-Army and today used by a federal authority. | | 09/16/2005 | 1,046 |
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 | Location of suken subs around the world.
New: colored year
1945 light green
1944 yellow
1943 red
1942 brown
Informations are from uboat.net. Thx. | | 09/12/2005 | 1,110 |
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 | Operation Deadlight was the code name for the scuttling of the unwanted German U-boats which the allies got their hands on after the end of World War Two (WWII). Most of these (if not all) operations took place from Lisahally, Northern Ireland or Loch Ryan, Scotland. About 121 German U-boats were scuttled during the fall and and winter of 1945-1946 out of Ireland. |  | 09/07/2005 | 622 |
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 | Location of sinking around the world by enemy action.
Informations are from uboat.net. Thx. | | 08/29/2005 | 1,164 |
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 | Seat of the Teutonic Order and Europe's largest Gothic fortress. | | 08/27/2005 | 443 |
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 | RAF Keevil is a former World War II airfield in England. The field is located 4 miles E of Trowbridge in Wiltshire.
The airfield was built on a site previously ear-marked for the purpose in the mid 1930s. Consisting of 3 long concrete runways the airfield was used by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force Eighth and Ninth Air Forces.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RA... |  | 08/23/2005 | 245 |
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 | This is the Zeppelinfeld in Nuremberg, Germany.
During the Nazi Regime this became the place of their Nuremberg Rallies with over 100,000 people taking part.
Nowadays it is a public recreation area, and the grand-stand hosts a historical documentary exhibition on the area during the "Third Reich". | | 08/23/2005 | 409 |
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 | Kongresshalle in Nuremberg is the second largest nazi building survived WWII. | | 08/23/2005 | 779 |
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 | A "must see" museum, telling the story of D-Day and the invasion of France in 1944. | | 08/22/2005 | 260 |
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 | At this villa at Wannsee in Berlin, 15 high-ranking Nazi-officials (among them Reinhard Heydrich and Adolf Eichmann of the SS) met on Jan. 20th 1942 to discuss and decide about the organization of the "Final solution of the Jewish Question", e.g. the deportation and murder of millions of European jews in concentration camps.
It is a memorial site and museum now. | | 08/21/2005 | 327 |
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 | Lost positions of German u-boats during World War II.
Informations are from uboat.net. Thx. | | 08/19/2005 | 1,290 |
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 | Memorial to Soviet soldiers, Schoenholzer Heide, Berlin, Germany | | 08/18/2005 | 238 |
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 | The Reich Air Ministry (RLM - German: Reichsluftfahrtministerium) was a government department during the period of Nazi Germany (1933–45). It is also the original name of a building in Wilhelmstraße in central Berlin, the capital of Germany, which now houses the German Finance Ministry (see Reich Air Ministry Building).
The Reich Air Ministry Building, December 1938The Air Ministry was in ch... |  | 08/18/2005 | 251 |
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 | Hitler's Berghof
The Berghof was Adolf Hitler's home in Obersalzberg, in the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden. It was located lower down the same mountain as the Kehlsteinhaus, Eagle's Nest, which Hitler rarely visited due to his fear of heights.
Editors Note -
Its a bit fuzzy now, but hopefully as Google updates their imagrey will get a better view of it. | | 08/18/2005 | 1,173 |
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 | These are the locations where German WWII submarines were sunk by enemy action (destroyer, mines, etc.). World War II info.
Informations are from uboat.net. Thx. | | 08/18/2005 | 1,329 |
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 | These are the locations where german submarines were sunk by enemy action in World War II (destroyer,mines, etc.).
There will be subsequent files numbered from U-51 - U-100, U-101 - U-150 and so on.
All information is from "uboat.net" or "ubootwaffe.net". | | 08/17/2005 | 1,221 |
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 | This base is a bit special as it's an inland port, 60 miles from the coast.
Admiral Dönitz decided during the summer of 1941 to also a build a protective bunker in Bordeaux. Construction began in September 1941.
The bunker was 245m wide, 162m long and 19 m high. Above the pens the roof was 5.6m thick and 3.6m thick above the rear servicing area. The first U-boat to use... | | 08/17/2005 | 914 |
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 | The "Batterie Benerville" was fitted with four 15cm Guns (3 in the bunkers and 1 in the open field). The range of the guns was 15,000 m and they were able to hit the allied landing zones. | | 08/17/2005 | 966 |
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 | the ANHALTER Station was one of the biggest Railwaystations in Berlin. The Station was destroyed in WW2 by english and american Bombers. Only the main entrance is standing today. It is a memorial agains the war. | | 08/17/2005 | 230 |
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 | In this house on 8 May 1945 the surrender of Germany was signed by general field marshal Keithel. With the surrender of the German armed forces in Berlin-Karlshorst the WW2 in Europe was ended. | | 08/17/2005 | 544 |
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 | The Potsdam Conference was a conference held in Potsdam, Germany (near Berlin), from July 17 to August 2, 1945. The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the largest and most powerful of the victorious Allies that defeated the Axis Powers in World War II. The heads of government of these three nations—Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prim... | | 08/16/2005 | 231 |
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 | At the beach near Cap Breton in Aquitane, France, you can see the remains of Bunkers which should protect occupied France for the landing of the allied Forces. These Bunkers are now, 60 years later, washed out by the sea of the Dunes where they originally where placed. They were never used, because the D-Day invasion occured some 300 miles away in the north of France.
These bunkers... | | 08/15/2005 | 2,006 |
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