Hamburg
Like the capital, Berlin, the German port city of Hamburg was fortified with two concrete Flak Towers ('Flaktürme' in German) between 1942 and 1944.
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
On the night of April 25 to 26, 1940, the British Royal Air Force bombed the German capital Berlin. For Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, it was unpalatable to have bombs hit the capital of his Third Reich.
Aachen
In the run-up to the Second World War, Adolf Hitler ordered the construction of a defense line in the west of the country, the so-called West Wall. You will still find hundreds of meters of tank barriers in Aachen, Germany.
Berlin
Karlshorst not only has a former airport in store but also a vanished zeppelin shed and a railway yard that has been transformed into a landscape park.
France
Pointe du Hoc, a promontory littered with craters and concrete blocks, stands out between Utah Beach and Omaha Beach, two of the five beaches where the Normandy landings took place on June 6, 1944.
Hauts-de-France
For 75 years, the North Sea has been pounding into two bunkers at the Martha infantry support point, a German complex on the beach of Escardines that was part of the Atlantic Wall.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
In Peenemünde, Germany, the Nazi rocket testing center, a coal-fired power plant was established in 1939 to enable the energy-intensive production of liquid oxygen - the fuel for the V2 rocket.
Hauts-de-France
After the First World War, the German army left dozens of bunkers behind in the French Illies, a village about 20 kilometers west of Lille.
Zeeland
The Eede-Aardenburg air watchtower is one of the 276 lookout posts built in the Netherlands during the Cold War.
Zeeland
At the beginning of October 1944, the British Air Force bombed the sea dike at Ritthem in the Netherlands. The aim was to flood Walcheren and force away the German army.
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