Hauts-de-France
During the Second World War, the German Air Force developed an unmanned flying bomb, the V1 (Vergeltungswaffe).
World War II
Explore key World War II sites across Europe, from historic battlefields to poignant memorials.
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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.
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.
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