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German Radiocentre Predefin

German Radiocentre Predefin

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...
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German Radiostation Jutphaas Fortress

German Radiostation Jutphaas Fortress

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...
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Camp Blechhammer

Camp Blechhammer

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...
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Falstad concentration camp

Falstad concentration camp

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
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Crveni Krst concentration camp

Crveni Krst concentration camp

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...
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Fort de Romainville

Fort de Romainville

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...
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Kaufering Concentration Camp

Kaufering Concentration Camp

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...
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Camp Gurs

Camp Gurs

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...
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Drancy Internment Camp

Drancy Internment Camp

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 ...
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Royallieu Transit Camp

Royallieu Transit Camp

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.

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Camp de Rivesaltes

Camp de Rivesaltes

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...
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Concentration Camp Le Vernet

Concentration Camp Le Vernet

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...
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Internment Camp Camp des Milles

Internment Camp Camp des Milles

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...
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Polish War Cemetery Langannerie

Polish War Cemetery Langannerie

Polish War Cemetery with 650 graves.

http://www.ww2museums.com/article/119
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German War Cemetery Reillon

German War Cemetery Reillon

In Reillon, a Germen and a French war cemetery from the First World War are lying next to each other. After the Second World War, the German cemetery was extended for reburying all the German war casualties in the Meurthe-et-Moselle region.

The cemetery contains 2,586 German war graves from the Second World War. Of these, 330 are located in a mass grave.

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German War Cemetery Andilly

German War Cemetery Andilly

Andilly German War Cemetery is the largest German War Cemetery in France, with 33,085 graves from the Second World War.

http://www.ww2museums.com/article/1875
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German War Cemetery Champigny-St.-Andre

German War Cemetery Champigny-St.-Andre

The German war cemetery Champigny-St.-André contains 19,809 graves from the Second World War. There is also a mass grave with 816 casualties. Of these, 303 are identified.

http://www.ww2museums.com/article/3452
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German War Cemetery Mont-de-Huisnes

German War Cemetery Mont-de-Huisnes

This cemetery (Kriegsgräberstätte) lies 1 km north of Huisnes-sur-Mer, on a hill of 30 metres high.

It is different from ther cemeteries because the casualties are brought together in chambers, 180 casualties in each chamber. The chambers form a circle which is about 47 metres wide.

The cemetery contains 11,956 war graves.

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German War Cemetery La Cambe

German War Cemetery La Cambe

German War Cemetery (Kriegsgräberstätte) with 21,160 graves.

The hill in the middle of the cemetery is a mass grave witch 296 casualties. When new German casualties worden found in Normandy, they will be buried in this hill. So the number of casualties on this cemetery is still rising.

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German War Cemetery Marigny

German War Cemetery Marigny

This German War Cemetery (Kriegsgräberstätte) contains 11,172 graves, most of the casualties were buried here after the Second World War, when they were brought together from lonely fieldgraves and small cemeteries.

http://www.ww2museums.com/article/121
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German War Cemetery Orglandes

German War Cemetery Orglandes

Shortly after the Second World War this cemetery contained 7,358 German casualties together with several thousands American soldiers.

When de American graves were removed to the American Cemetery Normandy, the remaining empty graves were used to bury German casualties from the wide surroundings.

Nowadays 10,152 German soldiers are buried on this cemetery
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German War Cemetry St. Desir-de-Lisieux

German War Cemetry St. Desir-de-Lisieux

The British grave-service buried 3,697 German casualties on this terrein and made it a German War Cemetery (Kriegsgräberstätte). It is known as one of the cemeteries where Germen casualties who were found nowadays can be buried.

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German War Cemetery Lommel

German War Cemetery Lommel

The largest German military cemetery (Kriegsgräberstätte) in Europe is situated in Lommel. Since 1946 39.099 soldiers who died in WWI but mainly in WWII are buried here. During the fighting in Belgium and Germany (mainly at Aachen and Düren) the Americans buried the German dead provisionally on 4 temporary cemeteries from which the dead were later brought over to Lommel. Thousands of German sol...
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German and French War Cemetery Strasbourg

German and French War Cemetery Strasbourg

This cemetery started in 1888 as a garnison cemetery. In the First World War it was used to bury 1717 German and 386 Franch soldiers, as well as 1164 POW’s of several nationalities.

In the Second World War the cemetery was used again to bury 1069 German and 1969 French soldiers who were killed in that war.
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German War Cemetery Bergheim

German War Cemetery Bergheim

The German war cemetery Bergheim, situated on Grasberg hill, contains 5,308 graves from the Second World War. They were brought together from 225 places in de Haut-Rhin region.

http://www.ww2museums.com/article/3449
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