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 | The war cemetery of Rostock contains the burials of 319 Soviet soldiers and 397 forced labourers who perished during World War 2.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/6696 |  | 08/31/2009 | 31 | 
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 | On 2 May 1945, the death march from Sachsenhausen ended at this location. The 18,000 survivors of the march were liberated then by Russian troops. This memorial commemorates those who died during this march.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/5563 | | 08/31/2009 | 29 |
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 | The Golm (69 m) is the highest hill on the Usedom-island. On this hill started in 1944 a German military cemetery (Kriegsgräberstätte) with more than 1250 killed soldiers of the army, navy and air force.
On 12 March 1945 the harbour-city Swinemünde, filled with wounded and refugees, was destroyed by 671 American bombers. About 20,000 people were killed and most of them were burie... | | 08/31/2009 | 26 |
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 | The Second Armistice at Compiègne was signed at 18:50 on 22 June 1940 near Compiègne, in the department of Oise, between Nazi Germany and France. Following the decisive German victory in the Battle of France (10 May–21 June 1940), it established a German occupation zone in Northern France that encompassed all English Channel and Atlantic Ocean ports and left the remainder "free" to be... | | 08/31/2009 | 42 |
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 | On this cemetery (Kriegsgräberstätte) are the graves of 2000 casualties, soldiers, civilians and POW’s, of the bombardments on Peenemünde and Karlshagen on 17 and 18 August 1943 and 18 July 1944.
There are also two mass graves with 56 and 213 forced laborers from the camps Trassenheide I and Trassenheide II, satellite camps of concentration camp Ravensbrück. They had to work on t... | | 08/31/2009 | 24 |
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 | At the end of the Second World War, younger boys were asked to defend Germany. On 26 April 1945, when the use of a Panzerfaust was explained, it exploded and 23 boys, at the age from 14 to 19, died. Their remains were buried together in a collective grave.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/5075 | | 08/31/2009 | 36 |
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 | This war cemetery contains the burials of ca. 125 Soviet soldiers who fell in 1945 or died in the period thereafter of their wounds.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/6594 | | 08/31/2009 | 26 |
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 | This German bunker was to defend the north-side of the Moerdijk-Bridges.
This bunker, of type 622 with an extra tobruk, was part of the Baupunkt 97 of the Stutzpunktgruppe Moerdijk.
Fotos and info: http://www.ww2museums.com/article/5691 | | 08/31/2009 | 54 |
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 | This German casemate is a recycled Dutch casemate. The old loop-holes were closed and new made in the northern wall. In front of the bunker is a tobruk for a flame thrower.
The bunker was part of the Baupunkt 97 of the Stutzpunktgruppe Moerdijk.
More info : http://www.ww2museums.com/article/5692 | | 08/31/2009 | 31 |
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 | This German anti-aircraft emplacement (FLAK) was build on top of a Dutch casemate, at the north side of the Moerdijk Bridge.
The FLAK-emplacement was part of the Baupunkt 97 of the Stutzpunktgruppe Moerdijk.
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 | This German coastal battery at Scheveningen was built between 1941 an 1945. The main armanant composed of four 15,5cm guns.
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The battery today:
It is currently abandoned. | | 08/31/2009 | 50 |
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 | Pingley POW (prisoner of war) camp is one of the few prisoner of war camps in the United Kingdom that remains in good condition. Unlike the relatively nearby Eden Camp which is preserved as a WW2 museum, Pingley Camp lays in a semi derelict state in the grounds of Pingley Farm. It is situated on the outskirts of Brigg, Lincolnshire.
The camp was used to house mainly Italian priso... | | 08/31/2009 | 28 |
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 | RAF Twinwood Farm is a former World War II airfield in England, located 4 miles N of Bedford. Twinwood Farm was where USAAF Major Glenn Miller aircraft took off on 15 December 1944 for Paris. His plane disappeared over the English Channel and was never found.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Twinwood_Farm | | 08/31/2009 | 29 |
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 | Action T4 (German: Aktion T4) was a program, also called Euthanasia Program, in Nazi Germany spanning October 1939 until August 1941, during which physicians killed 70,273 people specified in Hitler's secret memo of September 1, 1939 as suffering patients "judged incurably sick, by critical medical examination", but described in a denunciation of the program by Cardinal Galen as long-... |  | 08/29/2009 | 604 |
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 | The Schwerbelastungskörper (German: "heavy loading body") is a large cylinder made of concrete in Berlin, Germany. It was built in 1941 to study the feasibility of constructing large buildings on the sandy ground in the area, in preparation for the planned construction nearby of a massive Triumphal Arch. It is 18 m high and has a mass of 12,650 metric tons. Because of nearby apartment... | | 08/29/2009 | 78 |
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 | During the capture of the different countries Hitler wants to have on a short but safe distance from the frontline a Fuhrerhauptquartier (FHQ). From this FHQ he can lead the war. Wolfsschlucht 2 in the forest of the small French village Margival (Picardie) is one of the FHQ's. The 2 behind Wolfsschlucht is simply to clarify because there was already a Wolfsschlucht 1. Wolfsschlucht 1 was locate... | | 08/29/2009 | 86 |
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 | This gigantic bunker was used by the Germans during World War 2 for the construction and maintenance of the Schnellboot.<br>
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The bunker today: It is currently used for mineral storage and is not accesible.<br>
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More Info - http://www.prinzeugen.com/SBOATIND.htm | | 08/29/2009 | 410 |
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 | This German bunker of the type Sk, was used to store torpedo's. The outer walls are 2.50 meters thick and the roof is 3 meters.<br>
Address:Kromhoutstraat, IJmuiden
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/5976 | | 08/29/2009 | 46 |
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 | The Generaloberst-Beck-Kaserne are barracks of the armed forces of Germany, the Bundeswehr, in Sonthofen in Oberallgäu.
The estate was built in 1934 as NS-Ordensburg Sonthofen by the German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront) for the NSDAP.
Three NS-Ordensburgen existed:
Ordensburg Krössinsee, in Pomerania
Ordensburg Sonthofen, Allgäu
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 | German dragon teeth's (Höckerlinie) at IJmuiden. | | 08/29/2009 | 52 |
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 | This German anti-aircraft battery consisted of seven 10,5cm guns (of whom 4 modern SK/C 32 pieces) and is located near the German coastal battery Heerenduin. | | 08/29/2009 | 44 |
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 | Ordensburg Krössinsee (also Crössinsee) was placed near the city of Falkenburg in Pomerania, today Złocieniec Poland. It was the first of three NS-Ordensburgen, the educational centers for or cadres of the NSDAP.
The laying of the foundation stone of Ordensburg Krössinsee was on 22 April 1934. It was planned by the Cologne architect Clemens Klotz. The vast construction of ru... | | 08/29/2009 | 32 |
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 | This German anti-aircraft battery consisted of four 10,5 cm guns of the type SK/C 32.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/5980 | | 08/29/2009 | 36 |
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 | This German checkpoint of the type Walzkörpersperre was the only acces to the hermetic closed Festung IJmuiden and is one of the last remaining checkpoints of the Atlantikwall.<br>
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Info and fotos - http://www.ww2museums.com/article/5977 | | 08/29/2009 | 53 |
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 | Between 1942 and 1943 Villa Emma was a hiding place for about 100 Jewish children from different European countries. They were supported by the citizens, doctor and priest of Nonantola.<br>
When the Germans occupied Italy the children found shelter on a different location, again with help of the people of Nonantola. Finally they succeeded in their escape to Switzerland.<br> | 08/29/2009 | 22 |
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