Brandenburg
Until 1994, a diorama in the former military headquarters of the Soviet Army in Germany housed 'The Battle of Berlin,' a thirty-six-meter long and seven-meter-high painting that weighed more than a ton.
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Brandenburg
In 1994, the last Russian soldiers withdrew from the forbidden city in Wünsdorf, the headquarters of the Red Army during the Cold War.
Brandenburg
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. That's why the Russian soldiers who camped in the forbidden city of Wünsdorf during the Cold War had access to an indoor and outdoor pool and saunas.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Saturday, June 10, 1944, just days after the Allied landings in Normandy. Major Diekmann and his Waffen SS men marched into the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane shortly after noon.
Sardinia
The city of Carbonia emerged in a completely remote area of Sardinia in 1938. It wasn't easy to imagine a more striking name: everything here centred around the coal mine, the first thing one sees upon entering the city.
Hauts-de-France
Just below Wissant, in Audinghen, the heavy guns of Battery Todt had a range of 55 kilometers, just far enough to hit England.
Hauts-de-France
Sagging bunkers, loose foundations, collapsed walls: the beach between Leffrinckoucke and Zuydcoote looks like a dumping ground of bunkers. You will find, among other things, the German naval coastal battery Malo Terminus.
Hauts-de-France
During the Second World War, the German "Organization Todt" rebuilt a French artillery battery in the dunes of Fort Vert, close to Calais.
Hauts-de-France
The German army misled the Allies by building a fire control post near Oye in the shape of a church tower.
Hauts-de-France
From September 1943, forced labourers excavated a vast underground tunnel complex in Mimoyecques on the outskirts of Calais.
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