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 | At Springhirsch near Kaltenkirchen was from August 1944 to April 1945 a satellite camp of concentration camp Neuengamme.
The prisoners had to construct a military airport.
About 700 of them died in this camp.
Some remains of the camp are still visible. There is also a small museum and a memorial.
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 | Belong to the German defence Atlantic wall.
The bunker complex with more than 350m, till June 1944, the German have here installed 4 artillery pieces of 105m
http://manche.fr/patrimoine/batterie-azeville.asp | | 08/29/2009 | 34 |
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 | U-boat bunker is located in Lorient. The bunker was 403 x 146m in size and the roof of the bunker was 3,5m thick. The bunker was constructed in the period May 1941 - December 1941 and had a capacity of 7 boats |  | 08/25/2009 | 1,008 |
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 | The bunkers complex consists of two groups of radar one with two radars (Mammut FuMo 51) and the other with radars(FuMo214, FuMo 24 and Regelbau 636) | | 08/25/2009 | 389 |
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 | At the entrance to Eden Camp a Spitfire can be found.
Other items at the museum are:
Spitfire Mk. IX
Hawker Hurricane
Russian T-34/85 Medium Tank
GMC Truck
40mm Bofors Anti-Aircraft Gun
White M16 Half Track
Leyland Hippo Mk. II
German sFH 18 150mm Howitzer
Schutzenpanzerwagen SdKfz 251
British 3.7 inch ... | | 08/25/2009 | 63 |
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 | In early 1942, a small contingent of Army personnel, under the command of a Sergeant, arrived at Malton, midway between York and Scarborough in North Yorkshire. Their task was to construct a barbed wire enclosure and erect tents to house the steady flow of enemy prisoners of war captured in North Africa. The site was named Eden Camp and the first inmates were two hundred and fifty Italian pris... | | 08/25/2009 | 40 |
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 | Vierville Artillery Bunkers, Cannon, Ponton-Bridge | | 08/25/2009 | 95 |
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 | An Italian sea plane base was located here from the 20's until the end of World War Two. The facility was used to train pilotes and test sea planes.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/6741 | | 08/25/2009 | 36 |
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 | The Cannock Chase German war cemetery is on Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, England.
On 16 October 1959, the governments of the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany made an agreement about the future care of German military personnel and German civilian internees of both World wars interred in scattered cemeteries not already maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves ... | | 08/21/2009 | 45 |
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 | This site was an airforce-base for fighters and had also function as a leading centre for nightfighters. This proves the presence of a bunker, type L 479, who served as a checkpoint for nightfighters. The pilots stayed at the castle of the landlord. They behaved very correctly according to the marchioness. Only somethimes they used the clock on the tip of the facade as target.
T... | | 08/21/2009 | 37 |
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 | Between the villages Hazebrouck and Cassel in the wood called Bois des 8 Rues you can find this very special launching facility for V1 rockets.
This location is build in 1943 and is nicely preserved throughout the years. There is a tour around the bunkers with information panels.
This location was used for launching V1 rockets. There were hundreds of launching sites all ... | | 08/21/2009 | 114 |
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 | At about 1000 yards south of the village of Prédefin 1200 laborers started early 1943 with the construction of a large base for radio detection and radio transmission channeling. The whole installation was erected in a meadow and forested landscape around 160 – 164 meters above sea level and was connected to the railway Hesdin – Saint Pol with a supply track.
The centre of the ba... | | 08/21/2009 | 25 |
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 | Fort Jutphaas was part of the New Holland Water Line. In the Second World War, it was a major sending and receiving station of the Deutsche Kriegsmarine, especially the submarines.
A long retractable antenna mast was used. The station played a major role in the coordination of the German submarines and Admiral Karl Dönitz was regularly here.
In 1943, the fort was... | | 08/21/2009 | 29 |
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 | The Blechhammer (English: sheet metal hammer) area was the location of Nazi Germany prisoner of war (POW) and forced labor camps (German: Arbeitslager Blechhammer, Nummernbücher). Labor camp prisoners began arriving as early as June 17, 1942, and the mobile “pocket furnace” (German: Taschenofen) crematorium was at Sławięcice. The March (1945) evacuated POWs (one camp went to Regensbur... | | 08/21/2009 | 40 |
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 | Falstad concentration camp was a prison camp in Ekne in Skogn, close to Levanger, Norway, used mostly for political prisoners from Nazi-occupied territories.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falstad | | 08/21/2009 | 47 |
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 | Crveni Krst concentration camp (English: Red Cross concentration camp), also known as logor Crveni Krst (логор Црвени Крст) or Lager Niš (Лагер Ниш), was a concentration camp located in Crveni Krst, in the industrial zone of the Serbian city of Niš, and opera... | | 08/21/2009 | 36 |
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 | Fort de Romainville (in English, Fort of Romainville), was a Nazi prison and transit camp, located in the outskirts of Paris. The Fort was invested in 1940 by the German military and transformed into a prison. From there, resistants and hostages were directed to the camps. 3,900 women and 3,100 men were interned before being deported to Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, Buchenwald and Dachau concentratio... | | 08/21/2009 | 25 |
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 | Kaufering Concentration Camp was a network of subsidiary camps of the Dachau concentration camp.
With the intensification of the Allied air war against German industrial and military enterprises after 1943, the German Armaments Ministry and the Schutzstaffel (SS) agreed to accelerate construction of massive underground factories, using large numbers of conscripted laborers and co... | | 08/21/2009 | 46 |
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 | Camp Gurs was an internment and refugee camp constructed by the French government in 1939. The camp was originally set up in southwestern France after the fall of Catalonia at the end of the Spanish Civil War to control those who fled Spain out of fear of retaliation from Francisco Franco's regime. At the start of the World War II, the French government interned Germans and citizens of other Ax... | | 08/21/2009 | 30 |
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 | The Drancy deportation camp of Paris, France was used to hold Jews who were later deported to the extermination camps. 65,000 Jews were deported from Drancy, of which 63,000 were murdered including 6,000 children. Only 2,000 remained alive when Allied forces liberated the camp on 17 August 1944.
Drancy was under the control of the French police until 1943 when administration was ... | | 08/21/2009 | 34 |
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 | Royallieu was one of the biggest transit camps of Nazi-Germany in occupied France. More than 45.000 people passed through it. The camp served between June 1941 and August 1944.
Within Royallieu stood "Camp C", or the "Jewish camp". This part of Royallieu was an extermination camp on itself. The Jewish prisoners were starved to death.
http://www.... | | 08/21/2009 | 29 |
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 | The Camp de Rivesaltes is a military camp in France (also called camp Joffre) located on the territory of the commune of Rivesaltes in Pyrénées-Orientales in the South of France. The camp was also used for interning several civil populations from 1939 to 2007. The darkest period of the camp was in 1942 when 2251 Jews, including 110 children of the Rivesaltes Camp were transferred via the Drancy... | | 08/21/2009 | 35 |
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 | The camp Le Vernet (or Camp Vernet) served several functions between June 1918 and 1948:
June 1918: Establishment of the camp to house French colonial troops during World War I. Short after the opening of the camp, it became a camp for German and Austrian POW's.
During the interbellum: Military depot.
1939: Reception camp for refugees Spanish civil war... | | 08/21/2009 | 35 |
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 | Camp des Milles was a French internment camp, opened in September 1939, in a former factory. The camp was first used to intern Germans and Austrians, and by June 1940, some 3,500 people were detained here.
Between 1941 and 1942 Le Camp des Milles was used as a transit camp for Jews before deportation. About 2,000 of the inmates were shipped off to the Drancy camp on the way to Au... | | 08/21/2009 | 25 |
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 | Polish War Cemetery with 650 graves.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/119 | | 08/19/2009 | 125 |
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