A 33-kilometre-long canal zigzags from Stabroek to the Albert Canal in Antwerp. What at first glance looks like a strip of nature was initially intended to hold up German tanks.
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.
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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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