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.
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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.
Zeeland
The German army spared no expense to make the eleven bunkers of Stützpunkt Groede resemble a cosy Dutch village.
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.
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.
Grand Est
At the end of the First World War, an observation tower was built on top of Tête de Raves in the French Vosges.
Grand Est
In 1926, the French Ministry of Defense unveiled plans to fortify the country's eastern borders against possible surprise attacks, such as during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870.
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