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Items related to World War II (1939-1945) |
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 | An aerial vertical view of the destroyed bridge with a fly-by photo. |  | 05/13/2006 | 603 | 
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 | An aerial view of the Railway Bridge which was blown by the Germans on Sunday 17th September 1944. | | 05/13/2006 | 459 |
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 | Bergen-Belsen, (or Belsen) was a Nazi concentration camp in Lower Saxony, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Between 1943 and 1945 an estimated 50,000 European civilians died there. A memorial and an exhibition centre exist on the site now. |  | 05/13/2006 | 1,419 |
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 | This is a well-preserved M4A3 Sherman tank used by the Free French 2nd Armoured Division on top of the pillbox.
It's located at the east side of Arromanches overlooking the Mulberry harbour and Gold beach. | | 05/13/2006 | 450 |
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.jpg) | This is a photograph taken of 15 February 1944, which shows the advance from Easy Red at Omaha Beach, Normandy.
Look here http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/100-11/ch4.htm#red for more info about this action. | | 05/12/2006 | 342 |
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 | Seine river bridge at MANTES-GASSICOURT under bombardment by aircraft of Ninth Air Force. | | 05/11/2006 | 171 |
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 | In addition to the radar stations on the Normandy coast were a series of observation posts set around ten kilometres apart, but closer if headlands were concerned, to enable visual signalling to adjacent posts. For the Normandy coast these were regionally controlled by the Flugmelde Zentrale (Plotting Centre) situated some three miles inland near Caen. Altogether the Caen centre controlled some... |  | 05/11/2006 | 325 |
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 | This photo shows the advance from Omaha Beach between exits D-3 and E-1 with the direction St.Laurent. | | 05/11/2006 | 809 |
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.jpg) | In this file, you will find all sunken ships with the information (some with pictures) about these ships. Also a small overview of his life in the German Navy. Special thanks for information to u-boat.net. | | 05/09/2006 | 504 |
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 | Burg Vogelsang was erected between 1934 and 1936 as one of four elite academies where racially pure young German men were to be moulded into leaders for the Third Reich.
The buildings are one of the best-maintained examples of Nazi architecture in Germany and the biggest after the Nuremberg party rally grounds.
The Burg's black stone cladding and crushing symmetry,... | | 05/03/2006 | 366 |
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 | Actually known as hedehogs, these spiked barriers are effecitve at keeping mechanized units out. They are very prominent at the beggining of the movie "Saving Private Ryan." These hedgehogs in particular are a WWII memorial showing the furthest point German troops penetrated Russia. | | 05/02/2006 | 353 |
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 | Former U.S.Army Ammunition Depot in Berlin | | 04/30/2006 | 168 |
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 | It was here in a tent on may 4th. 1945 Field marschal Montgomery and Admiral von Friedeburg signed the german capitulation, and that had effect from may 5th.
After the war the britons build up a memorial but it was taken away again 1953 and brought to Sandhurst military academy. | | 04/25/2006 | 369 |
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 | 1937 Hitler wanted a new stadium for his Nazi rallies in Nuremberg. The hill here was chosen because it had the right angle as the stadium. 1/10th of the stand of the stadium with place for 42000 seaters.
Links:
http://www.lostplaces.de/hirschbachtal/index.html
http://www.nuernberg.de/tourismus/rundgaenge/reichsparteitagsgelaende_e/e_d_stadion.html |  | 04/25/2006 | 292 |
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 | The westwall (also known as Siegfried Line) a 630 km defence within 18.000 shelter, galleries as well as trenchs and armour-barrier. Hitler planed it 1936 and let it built between 1938 and 1940. To see the course and pictures of the Westwall go to www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westwall
Der Westwall (bei den Alliierten auch unter dem Namen Siegfried-Linie bekannt) war ein ueber c... | | 04/24/2006 | 594 |
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 | In this file, you will find all sunken ships with the information (some with pictures) about these ships. Also a small overview of his live in the german navy. Special thanks for information to u-boat.net. | | 04/19/2006 | 1,021 |
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 | picture of tuindorp Den Helder WW2 | | 04/08/2006 | 215 |
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 | Picture taken during bombing the Old rijkswerf 19-02-1943 | | 04/07/2006 | 262 |
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 | before picture of bombing old rijkswerf 19-02-1943 | | 04/07/2006 | 187 |
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 | 31 placesmarks at hitler's headquater obersalzberg | | 04/07/2006 | 893 |
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 | Mittelbau was a complex of factories, storage depots, facilities and prisoner camps, some underground, that were used from August, 1943 until April, 1945 to manufacture and test the V-2 rocket near Nordhausen in central Germany. The main V-2 assembly line was located in an underground factory called Mittelwerk that was excavated beneath Kohnstein Mountain, about 2 km southwest of the town of Ne... | | 03/31/2006 | 693 |
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 | This is a picture of the RAF bombing raid on 25 April 1945 of the obersalzberg complex and hitlers berghof. | | 03/26/2006 | 891 |
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 | In this file, you will find all sunken ships with the information (some with pictures) about these ships. Also a small overview of his live in the german navy. Special thanks for information to u-boat.net. | | 03/23/2006 | 735 |
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 | Ryvangen located north of Copenhagen was the place the Nazis executed danish resistance members. 202 members were found burried here and 106 were reburried after identification. Also burried here are 31 danes who died in german KZ's. And 151 resistance members with unknown burial-place are remembered on a wall located at the pin. | | 03/23/2006 | 149 |
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Between 8. and 15. June 1944 the 101. Airborne Division fought the Battle of Carentan against troops of the 6. Fallschirmregiment (Parachute Regiment) and the 17. SS-Panzergrenadierdivision. Carentan was one of the key positions to take Cherbourg and the peninsula Cotentin.
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After the invasion began Allied units tried to take the bigger cities in the back coun... | | 03/20/2006 | 1,272 |
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