Aachen
Where the Vennbahn cuts through Lammersdorf, Germany, you collide with a row of concrete dragon's teeth.
World War II
Explore key World War II sites across Europe, from historic battlefields to poignant memorials.
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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.
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.
Hauts-de-France
One of the dunes of Blériot-Plage, west of Calais, was crowned with a command post in the autumn of 1943. The coastal batteries of Waldam, Oldenburg, Bastion II, Fort Lapin, Sangatte and Lindemann were controlled from here.
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