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Rotterdamse scholieren voor dwangarbeid in Duitsland 1944-1945 (Only available in Dutch)

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Fliegerhorst Venlo – Yankee 55 – The Netherlands

Nachtjagdgeschwader 1 or I./NJG 1 was stationed on this Luftwaffe base, not only Night fighters were stationed here. For a short period II/JG. 1...

Hexengrund – Torpedo test facility Gdynia – Poland

Grey concrete buildings rise out the sea in the Gulf of Danzig, at first glance it looks like flooded parts of land with only...

Royal Air Force Museum Cosford – England

AF Cosford started as an aircraft maintenance and storage unit. They trained units at Cosford in the Number 2 school of Technical Training. As...

Thingstätte Heidelberg Germany – Amphitheatre used for Nazi Propaganda

To go on tour and spread the word was, and is, still important and inspiring for politicians, so the Nazi officials hit the road...

Military Cemetery Zuydcoote – Hauts-de-France, France

The Zuydcoote Military Cemetery in France is a mixed burial site. There is an Allied Commonwealth section, a French section - Nécropole Nationale de...

The Masurian Canal. Locks Górne and Dolne in Leśniewo – Poland

Masurian Canal, Lock Górne – Leśniewo Poland

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During the Prussian reign ideas of a waterway between the Baltic Sea and the Masurian lakes...

Zaspa Cemetery – KZ Stutthof – Victims of Hitler’s Terror – Gdansk, Poland

In the Polsich city Gdansk is a cemetery in honour of the victims of concentration camp Stutthof. Concentrations Camp Stutthof lies about 35 kilometres...

Marine Flak Batterie Nord: Stützpunkt Fichte – West-Souburg, Walcheren, Netherlands

Hidden in a small forest at West-Souburg, heavy Batterie Nord "Stützpunkt Fichte" was a field position of the Kriegsmarine. The main armament of the...

National Filling Factory No.1 also known as Barnbow

National Filling Factory No.1, also known as Barnbow, was a First World War munitions factory located at Cross Gates in Leeds. The site covered...

Netherlands American War Cemetery and Memorial Margraten

This is the only large WW2 cemetery for fallen American soldiers on Dutch soil. Most of these victims fell during Operation Marketgarden, the Ardennes...

The Grave of Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) – Parish Church of St Martin’s, Bladon, United Kingdom

In this quiet graveyard of the Parish Church of St Martin's Bladon, England, lies the grave of Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965).

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Fliegerhorst Venlo – Yankee 55 – The Netherlands

Hexengrund – Torpedo test facility Gdynia – Poland

Royal Air Force Museum Cosford – England

Thingstätte Heidelberg Germany – Amphitheatre used for Nazi Propaganda

Military Cemetery Zuydcoote – Hauts-de-France, France

The Masurian Canal. Locks Górne and Dolne in Leśniewo – Poland

Zaspa Cemetery – KZ Stutthof – Victims of Hitler’s Terror – Gdansk, Poland

Marine Flak Batterie Nord: Stützpunkt Fichte – West-Souburg, Walcheren, Netherlands

National Filling Factory No.1 also known as Barnbow

Netherlands American War Cemetery and Memorial Margraten

The Grave of Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) – Parish Church of St Martin’s, Bladon, United Kingdom

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Easy Company, 101st Airborne Division in the Battle of the Bulge – Foy, Belgium

Grave of Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel at Herrlingen Cemetery – Blaustein, Germany

DR-Baureihe E19 01: Nazi trains for the German Reichsbahn

U-boat ‘Wilhelm Bauer’ Type XXI Bremerhaven and U-boat Archive Museum Altenbruch, Germany

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