France
After French revolutionaries chased the monks out of Saint-Bertin Abbey in 1791, demolition began.
Dark Tourism
Explore the intriguing world of dark tourism in Europe, where history's shadows come alive. Visit sites of battles, tragedies, and mysteries, each telling a unique story of the past. Uncover the allure of exploring Europe's darker side, from haunting ruins to historic battlegrounds.
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Berlin
It is quiet at the top of the Teufelsberg, an artificial hill just outside the center of Berlin. Silent as a mouse. That was a bit different during the Cold War.
Schleswig-Holstein
In 1876, German industrialist Max Duttenhöfer founded the explosives factory "Düneberger Pulverfabrik" near the German city of Hamburg, where gunpowder and other explosives were produced during both world wars.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Crumbling Soviet statues look with sorrow at the decline of one of the most important bases of the Russian air force in East Germany: the Pütnitz airport in Damgarten.
Rügen
In 1935, Adolf Hitler gave the go-ahead for the construction of a megalomaniac holiday colony in Prora on the German island of Rügen.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
From 1936 onwards, hundreds of scientists, engineers and technicians settled in the German fishing village of Peenemünde on the Baltic Sea to develop and test the V2 rocket.
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.
Berlin
In 1936, just before the Second World War broke out, Germany organized the Summer Olympics in Berlin.
Sachsen-Anhalt
During Germany's division, the Helmstedt-Marienborn border post was the most crucial crossing along the German internal border.
Normandy
Massive concrete colossi lie half-buried in the sand on the French beach of Arromanches: silent witnesses to the day history was written in Normandy.
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