Berlin
On November 11, 1945, just six months after the end of the Second World War, the Red Army erected a series of Soviet monuments in the German capital Berlin.
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At the end of the 19th century, the Cotonnière du Touquet settled in the northern French textile town of Tourcoing.
Zeeland
Of the more than 260 water towers that have appeared in the Dutch landscape since 1856, 175 remain, including the water tower in Axel in Zeeland.
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Belgian coast
Not much remains of Ramskapelle's former railway station today, as it was shot to pieces during the Battle of the Yser. The station was, therefore, right on the front line along the Yser.
Hainaut
Pont de l'Origine is one of the drawbridges along the old canal between Brussels and Charleroi.
Aachen
In 1938, the Organization Todt, the construction company of the German Third Reich, began constructing the West Wall (or Siegfried Line), a German defence line from the Netherlands to the Swiss border.
Belgian coast
More than a hundred years ago, on May 12, 1917, the biplane of Count Paul de Goussencourt and Lieutenant de Cubber thundered from the sky during a firefight above Kaaskerke, a small town part of Diksmuide. Both died instantly.
Ghent
An old railway embankment along the Scheldt has revealed its secrets since the beginning of this century. Not only was it transformed into a miniature nature reserve, but you will also find references to the railway past.
Sachsen-Anhalt
During Germany's division, the Helmstedt-Marienborn border post was the most crucial crossing along the German internal border.
Berlin
The Spreepark amusement park has been gathering dust since 2001. To avoid bankruptcy, the owner moved some attractions to Peru to start with a clean slate. In vain, as it now appears.
Grand Est
During the First World War, the top of the Linge, a 987-metre-high hump in the Vosges, was the scene of a bloody trench war that claimed the lives of 17,000 French and German soldiers in just a few months.
Niedersachsen
The iron Ottiliae head frame in Clausthal-Zellerfeld is the oldest remaining example of its type in Europe.
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On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall, a symbol of Cold War division and oppression, was breached. Berliners poured through the newly opened checkpoints.
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