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The Second World War has left its marks on the world. LandmarkScout looks for and visits these places and shares what it finds on this blog.

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, Last update: August 14 2017,
A German PaK 40 Anti Tank Gun in front of the Municipal Hall in the town of Valkenburg. It is a remembrance to the liberation of the town during...
, Last update: August 11 2017,
Almost everyone with the slightest interest in WW2 is likely to know Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and his famous nickname "The Desert Fox" or "Wüstenfuchs". Erwin Rommel was one of...
, Last update: August 4 2017,
In this building situated in the Upper-Austrian city of Braunau am Inn (then the Austria-Hungarian empire) Adolf Hitler was born on the 20th of April 1889.
, Last update: July 12 2017,
The German War Cemetery in Lommel is the largest WWII German Military Cemetery outside of Germany in Western Europe. The cemetery is the final resting place for a little...
, Last update: July 17 2017,
From May the 26th until the 4th of June in 1940 the British fought fiercely to evacuate their Expeditionary Force together with French, Belgium, Dutch, Poles, Czechs and other...
, Last update: July 13 2017,
There are many Nationalities to be found on this Commonwealth Cemetery for both WW1 and WW2, like British, Norwegian, Czech, New Zealand, Canadian and Polish,  all from different regiments...
, Last update: July 9 2017,
A part of the Military Museum is dedicated to the Battle of Crete, or Unternehmen Merkur - 'Operation Mercury' as the Germans called it.
, Last update: June 17 2017,
In Groesbeek is a Commonwealth cemetery with mostly Canadian soldiers who lost their lives during the last months of the war. The soldiers lost their lives during Operation Veritable...
, Last update: June 17 2017,
The museum has unique personal items which once belonged to soldiers from both sides of the battlefield. August Siegel will be your tour guide in the museum, he will...
, Last update: June 12 2017,
Bayernwald was part of the German front line in WWI. Situated on a hill it was a key position and therefore suffered constant attacks and artillery bombardments by the...
, Last update: May 23 2017,
St. James Church, Acton TrussellThe St. James Church is situated just outside the small village of Acton Trussell in the English county of Staffordshire. The church is from the...
, Last update: June 11 2017,
At the Weymouth sea side stands a cenotaph commemorating United States soldiers who left this harbour to fight on the landing beaches in France during D-Day. The Majority of...
, Last update: June 1 2017,
On camp road near Cannock Chase are two war cemeteries and two memorials. During World War One and World War Two a war camp was situated here complete with...
, Last update: May 23 2017,
This museum traces the period of the Allied landings on D-Day in Normandy until the liberation of Paris. It boasts an impressive collection ranging from army infantry equipment and...
, Last update: May 21 2017,
Read along with a Tiger tank Family reunion. After 70 years the Tank Museum Bovington has organised unusual exhibition with World of Tanks. All types of Tiger tanks in...
, Last update: May 21 2017,
In the centre of Batley, just south of Leeds in England, is a war memorial to commemorate the fallen from the Great War, or World War One, and World...
, Last update: May 18 2017,
On D-Day, June 6th 1944, Piper William "Bill" Millin led the way playing his bagpipe for the Scottish Commando's of Lord Lovat's 1st Special Service Brigade landing on the...
, Last update: May 18 2017,
With the construction of a military training complex in Wünsdorf-Zossen in 1909, this cemetery became the final resting place for soldiers from all over the world during both World...
, Last update: May 13 2017,
After Fall Gelb, which is the German designation for the taking of the Netherlands and Belgium in May 1940, the Kriegsmarine settled in IJmuiden and took over the Dutch...
, Last update: March 21 2017,
South of Seezielbatterie Heerenduin is the Marine FLAK Batterie Olmen. This anti aircraft battery protected the coastal battery, the Schnellboot bunker, the industry of IJmuiden with its blast furnace...
, Last update: April 26 2017,
Behind the Seeziel Batterie Heerenduin W.N. 81 Coastal Battery lies FLAKbatterie Süd Ost designated W.N. 92. The unique feature of this Widerstandsneste is the Walzkörpersperre. This checkpoint in de...
, Last update: April 26 2017,
Battery Heerenduin is situated at the estuary of the North Sea Canal which runs towards the port of Amsterdam and its industry. To defend this canal the Dutch build...
, Last update: February 19 2017,
Flakturm Humboltshain is a 1st generation G - tower. The 'G' indicated Gefechtsturm or Combat tower. Its measurements are 70,5 by 70,5 metres, and 39 meters high. With all...
, Last update: February 16 2017,
Stutzpunktgruppe Katwijk is a defensive strongpoint from the North sea inland to airport Valkenburg near Den Hague in the Netherlands. It is part of the Atlantic Wall.

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