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Items related to World War II (1939-1945) |
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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 | 54 | 
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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 | 43 |
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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 | 40 |
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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 | 49 |
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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 | 29 |
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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 | 47 |
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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 | 93 |
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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 | 39 |
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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 | 42 |
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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 | 43 |
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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 | 49 |
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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 | 43 |
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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 | 38 |
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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 | 46 |
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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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 | The Maldegem Flugplatz is situatied near the 'Ringbaan' which is now largely an industriel area.
The former Belgian airfield, which was still beeing constructed in 1940 was occupied by the German and Italian Air force during WWII. Later on it was used by the Canadian liberators. One of my witnesses told my the Germans returned for a short while on the first of January 1945. It... | | 09/10/2009 | 45 |
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 | A combination of an M4A4 with a Firefly-tower stands at the station of Leopoldsburg.
The tank is a remembrance to the order (0-groep) of general Brian Horrocks to the commanders of the groundforces which took part in operation Market Garden on Friday 15 September 1944 in the former Splendid cinema, opposite the station.
Address:Station, 3970, Leopoldsburg | | 09/08/2009 | 313 |
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 | The single person air raid schelter made of concrete and steel was built during the Second World War. It provided a shelter for railway signalmen during airplane attacks on the yard.
There were several of these structures spread over the area.
The station Hamont is the frontier of the railway Antwerp-Mol-Hamont-Mönchengladbach in the German Ruhr.
Address:Oude Watert... | | 09/08/2009 | 369 |
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 | Remains of Flakstellung Langenberg.
Address:Lichtaartseweg, 2200, Herentals | | 09/08/2009 | 189 |
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 | Belgium bunkerfront around the lock at Olen.
Address:Sluizenweg, 2250, Olen | | 09/08/2009 | 75 |
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 | A Sherman Firefly situated in Klein-Willebroek, part of Willebroek, is a monument in remembrance to the 11th Armoured Division and Robert Vekemans. The bridge next to this monument was on the allied route to Antwerpen.
Address:Louis De Naeyerkaai, 2830, Willebroek | | 09/08/2009 | 39 |
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 | From November 1, 1944 until December 16 1944 a concentration camp was established near Ladelund close to the border to Denmark. It was a subcamp to the Neuengamme concentration camp.
The camp had 2,000 internments who had to build the Frisian Wall at the west coast of Germany together with the internmented people from Camp Husum-Schwesing. 300 died during the construction, 106 we... | | 09/06/2009 | 494 |
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 | The Nuremberg trials were a series of trials, or tribunals, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany after its defeat in World War II. The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg, Germany, from 1945 to 1946, at the Palace of Justice. The first and best known of these trials was the Trial of the Major War Criminal... | | 09/06/2009 | 142 |
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 | The notorious Burma-Siam railway, built by Commonwealth, Dutch and American prisoners of war, was a Japanese project driven by the need for improved communications to support the large Japanese army in Burma. During its construction, approximately 13,000 prisoners of war died and were buried along the railway.
An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 civilians also died in the course of t... | | 09/06/2009 | 355 |
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 | The notorious Burma-Siam railway, built by Commonwealth, Dutch and American prisoners of war, was a Japanese project driven by the need for improved communications to support the large Japanese army in Burma. During its construction, approximately 13,000 prisoners of war died and were buried along the railway.
An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 civilians also died in the course of t... | | 09/06/2009 | 38 |
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