Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
You should not only be in Berlin for some of the finest abandoned watchtowers and barriers. The border zone also left its mark in the most northwestern city of the former GDR, Dassow, Germany.
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Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
From 1928 until the end of World War II, the German army, hidden deep in a remote corner of the country, tested aircraft, water, and amphibious vehicles.
Grand Est
Hidden deep in the woods near Verdun, France, lies Camp Marguerre, where the German army tested the use of concrete during the First World War.
Grand Est
Monday morning, February 21, 1916. A quarter after 7 in the morning, the German army opened fire on the forts north and east of Verdun, France.
Hauts-de-France
During the Second World War, the German Air Force developed an unmanned flying bomb, the V1 (Vergeltungswaffe).
France
A 5-meter-thick concrete dome protects the underground complex dug out by forced laborers in 1943 for the storage and launch of German V2 rockets.
Berlin
In every district of Berlin, you will still come across Russian memorials for the soldiers of the Red Army who died in the Second World War.
Aachen
Where the Vennbahn cuts through Lammersdorf, Germany, you collide with a row of concrete dragon's teeth.
Berlin
In the middle of Berlin, on the border between Kreuzberg and Neukölln, a temple was built in the 1930s by the National Socialists in honor of the fallen soldiers of WWI.
Brandenburg
Until 1994, Wünsdorf, East Germany, was the headquarters of the Russian army during the Cold War. In front of the officer's residence, a statue of Lenin looks out over the overgrown parade square.
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