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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 | 26 | 
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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 | 38 |
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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 | 37 |
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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 | 141 |
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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 | 24 |
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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 | 36 |
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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 | 159 |
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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 | 1,099 |
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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 | 177 |
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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 | 71 |
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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 | 31 |
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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 | 24 |
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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 | 34 |
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 | In Kochendorf, an satellite camp of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp was located. It was also known as Eisbär. About 1,800 people were imprisoned here and used as slave labour.
At the end of March 1945, the prisoners were forced to a death march to Dachau. In the camp and during the death march, at least 447 prisoners died.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/5039 | | 09/03/2009 | 34 |
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 | Hinzert (SS-Sonderlager Hinzert or Konzentrationslager/KZ Hinzert) was a Nazi concentration camp located in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, 30km away from the Luxembourg border.
Between 1939 and 1945, 13,600 political prisoners between the ages of 13 and 80 were imprisoned at Hinzert. Many were in transit towards larger concentration camps where most would be killed. However, a si... | | 09/03/2009 | 36 |
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 | The Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (German: Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda or Propagandaministerium) was Nazi Germany's ministry that enforced Nazi Party ideology in Germany and regulated its culture and society. Founded on March 13, 1933, by Adolf Hitler's new National Socialist government, the Ministry was headed by Dr. Joseph Goebbels and was res... | | 09/03/2009 | 28 |
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 | Plötzensee Prison (German: Strafgefängnis Plötzensee) was a Prussian institution built between 1869 and 1879 near the lake Plötzensee, but in the neighbouring borough of Charlottenburg, on Hüttigpfad off Saatwinkler Damm. During Adolf Hitler's time in power from 1933 to 1945, more than 2,500 people were executed at Plötzensee Prison. Among them were members of the Red Orchestra (Rote Kapelle), ... | | 09/03/2009 | 28 |
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 | The People's Court (German: Volksgerichtshof) was a court established in 1934 by German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, who had been dissatisfied with the outcome of the Reichstag Fire Trial (all but one of the accused were acquitted). The "People's Court" was set up outside the operations of the constitutional frame of law. The court had jurisdiction over a rather broad array of "polit... | | 09/03/2009 | 27 |
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 | In 1945, Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, who was briefly President of Germany for ten days after Adolf Hitler had appointed him his successor and then committed suicide, fled to Flensburg with what was left of his government where they were arrested and unseated at the Naval Academy Mürwik by British troops. Flensburg and the Naval Academy were thereby, for a few weeks, very briefly the last seat of... | | 09/02/2009 | 405 |
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 | The Battle of Halbe (German: Kessel von Halbe, Russian: Хальбский "котел", Halbe cauldron) lasted from April 24 to May 1, 1945 was a battle in which the German Ninth Army, under the command of Colonel General Theodor Busse was destroyed by the Red Army during the Battle for Berlin.
The N... | | 08/31/2009 | 75 |
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 | This cemetery is also known as Waldfriedhof. It is one of the biggest war cemeteries in Germany, with 22,500 burials.
The cemetery started in 1953 when graves from the surroundings of Halbe were brought together on this place. Still graves were brought to this cemetery, for example 170 graves in 1993.
Most burials are soldiers or members of the so-called Volkssturm... | | 08/31/2009 | 40 |
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 | The Russian war cemetery (Kriegsgräberstätte) in Frankfurt a/d Oder contains 1453 graves from the Second World War.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/5056 | | 08/31/2009 | 30 |
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 | The construction of this underground bunker complex began in 1939. Due the enormous threat of air bombing it was decided to transfer the headquarters of the Oberkommandos der Kriegsmarine (OKM) seated in Berlin to this complex. From 30 January 1943 till 19 April 1945 "Koralle" remained in this function. The Befehlshabers der U-Boote (BdU), which directed all of the U-boat activities, ... | | 08/31/2009 | 68 |
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 | Next to the Maria-church (Marienkirche) in Stralsund is a small Russian war cemetery from the Second World War.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/5340 | | 08/31/2009 | 25 |
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