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 | The French war cemetery of Venafro contains the burials of 3.414 French soldiers who fell during the Second World War. This is the biggest French war cemetery from WW2 on Italian soil.
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 | The Fosse Ardeatine massacre (Italian: Eccidio delle Fosse Ardeatine) was a mass execution carried out in Rome on 24 March 1944 by German occupation troops during the Second World War as a reprisal for a partisan attack conducted on the previous day in central Rome.
Subsequently, the Cave Ardeatine[1] (also known as the Fosse Ardeatine[2]) became a National Monument and a Memoria... | | 09/04/2009 | 28 |
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 | 6,807 German soldiers of WW2 are buried here. | | 09/04/2009 | 33 |
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 | In this cemetery in Kaliningrad, formerly Königsberg, 9,541 victims of the battle of Königsberg 1945 found their last resting place. Many of them were fugitives from other areas who thaught it was safe here.
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 | his English coastal battery was built between 1940 and 1941. The main armanant composed of two 6-inch (152.4 mm) guns.
The battery today:
It is currently abandoned. | | 09/04/2009 | 34 |
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 | Just above the harbour you can find the village St. Martin's Battery, it was part of an old fortification.
At this location were several heavy guns placed to protect the harbour of Dover and the rest of the English coast, as well to attack enemy ships in the Canal. They where not allowed to fire to the coast of France as an answer to German shellings, because that would result in... | | 09/04/2009 | 29 |
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 | he collection of the former Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Museum at Aldershot has moved to the Imperial War museum at Duxford.
The museum is now called Airborne Assault Museum.
It can be found in hangar no. 1.
For the current visitor information, please visit the website of the museum: http://duxford.iwm.org.uk/. | | 09/04/2009 | 30 |
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 | "The Needles" new battery is a product of subsidence problems and concerns about the old battery.
The main armanant composed of three BL 9.2 inch (233.7 mm) pieces and saw action during World War Two.
The battery today:
It is currently abandoned. | | 09/04/2009 | 30 |
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 | Flak towers (German: Flaktürme) were large, above-ground anti-aircraft gun blockhouses used by the Luftwaffe to defend against Allied air raids on certain cities during World War II. They also served as air-raid shelters for tens of thousands of people and to coordinate air defence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flak_tower | | 09/04/2009 | 50 |
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 | A replica coastal gun is mounted on it's original emplacement as it was during World War Two. | | 09/04/2009 | 39 |
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 | The Bunker (also Reichsbahnbunker) in Berlin-Mitte is a listed air-raid shelter. It was constructed in 1943 by Nazi Germany to shelter up to 2500 Reichsbahn train passengers. The square building has an area of 1000 m² and is 18 metres high; its walls are up to two metres thick. There are 120 rooms on five floors. In May 1945 the Red Army took the building and turned it into a prisoner-of-war ca... | | 09/04/2009 | 44 |
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 | The Plötzensee Memorial Center commemorating the victims of National Socialism is a site of quiet remembrance.
From 1933 to 1945, 2,891 people unjustly sentenced to death by the National Socialist judiciary were executed here. Of these, 68 came from Belgium and 35 of the Netherlands. Half of the people who were executed here came from Germany.
Today, the execution ... | | 09/04/2009 | 23 |
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 | This construction is an exact copy of the German tank wall as it stood on the Atlantikwall. It was used in 1943 for the purpose of training prior to D-day. | | 09/04/2009 | 33 |
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 | This heavy anti-aircraft battery was built during World War 2. It's armanant composed of four 3.7 inch (94 mm) Bofors pieces. | | 09/04/2009 | 33 |
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 | This Spigot Mortar Emplacement stands at the entrance to Elvetham Heath.
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 | This appealing memorial commemorates the victims of the Holocaust.
On 7 November 1938, the synagogue and other Jewish buildings in Kassel were destroyed. This was two days before the Kristallnacht.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/5502 | | 09/04/2009 | 139 |
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 | On this War Cemetery (Kriegsgräberstätte) of the Second World War are 1736 Russian P.O.W.’s buried. They died in the Stadwaldlager Bocholt because of diseases, hunger and violence. None of them is known by name.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/1838 | | 09/04/2009 | 23 |
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 | Amersfoort concentration camp (Dutch: Kamp Amersfoort, German: Durchgangslager Amersfoort) was a Nazi concentration camp in Amersfoort in the Netherlands. The official name was "Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort", P.D.A. or Police Transitcamp Amersfoort. During the years of 1941 to 1945, over 35,000 prisoners were kept here. The camp was situated in the southern part of Amersfo... | | 09/04/2009 | 33 |
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 | It was on this airfield of the Messerschmitt Factory Augsburg-Haunstetten on May 10th. 1941, at about 6:00 P.M. that Rudolf Hess took off in a Messerschmitt Bf 110, Messerschmitt to his famous flight to Scotland.
Today the area is a part of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS).
Some of the airfield is still visible.
http://en.wik... | | 09/03/2009 | 152 |
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 | On May 10, 1941, at about 6:00 P.M., Hess took off from Augsburg in a Messerschmitt Bf 110, and Hitler ordered the General of the Fighter Arm to stop Hess (squadron leaders were ordered to scramble only one or two fighters since Hess's particular aircraft could not be distinguished from others). Hess parachuted over Renfrewshire, Scotland on 10 May and landed (breaking his ankle) at Floors Farm... | | 09/03/2009 | 1,088 |
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 | This U-boat bunker is located in Bremen. The bunker was 362m x 68m in size and the roof of the bunker was 4,5m thick. The construction of the bunker started in March 1944 and was never completed.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/5273 |  | 09/03/2009 | 173 |
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 | Major memorial place for the July 20 assassination plot against Adolf Hitler.
Under the leadership of the Infantry General Friedrich Olbricht, the Bendlerblock was the focus of military resistance to the Nazi regime. It was here that Olbricht developed the "Valkyrie" operation plan into a plan for a coup d'état against Hitler. In October 1943 Colonel Claus von Stauffenb... | | 09/03/2009 | 69 |
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 | At the Northern Station (Nordbahnhof) of Stuttgart this memorial: „Zeichen der Erinnerung“ (Marks of Remembrance) is located. It commemorates the more than 2000 Jewish inhabitants of Stuttgart and Württemberg who were deportated between 1941 and 1945. Almost none of them survived the concentration- and extermination camps.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/5396 | | 09/03/2009 | 30 |
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 | Villa Bouchina was a house of internment (a reservation camp) in the Dutch city of Doetinchem where the Germans held nine Jewish people during World War II, with the intention to protect these 'prisoners'. The interned people had had a certain importance to The Netherlands or Germany before the war, and therefore the Germans helped them to survive for a while.
But there were also... | | 09/03/2009 | 22 |
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 | Between March 1944 and April 1945, an satellite camp from Neuengamme was located in Barkhausen (Porta Westfalica). It was named Porta (A II Barkhausen) and the location was a party-hall of Hotel Kaiserhof. About 1500 prisoners lived here. They were forced labourers and worked in underground factories.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/5134
http://www.team-porta.de/... | | 09/03/2009 | 32 |
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