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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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On our way from Wolfsschlucht 2 towards the French town Compiègne we drove past a French World War One military cemetery named “Cimetière National du Bois Robert”. It is...
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Fort Malmaison lies near the western end of Chemin des Dames on a former frontline of World War One. In 1914 it was abandoned by the French because of...
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To the north of Battery Oldenburg lies Battery Waldam, named after the village Waldam nearby. Both batteries are situated north of the french city Calais. Unlike Battery Oldenburg Battery Waldam...
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Situated along the railway line Laon-Paris in the thick wooded area surrounding Margival, this steep sided valley proved ideal for camouflaging a large facility. Even more ideal was the...
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This battery was part of the defence of the Strait of Dover like Battery Todt, Battery Lindemann and other heavy batteries in Nord-Pas-de-Calais. From these heavy batteries is battery...
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On 27 may in 2013 the Scouts received an email from Christine; "My mother and I are travelling to the museum on Tuesday, specifically to visit the tank 'the...
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On 21 September 2013 the 69th remembrance event of the mass dropping during Market Garden started at the Ginkelse moor near Ede. This year more than 800 parachutist will...
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In the years after Operation Market Garden multiple museums, memorials and other reminders of the battle could be found in the area of Arnhem and Nijmegen. One of the lesser...
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The Aviation museum in Hannover Laatzen has two halls with numerous items from World War One and World War Two. One hall is dedicated to World War One. Besides...
, Last update: October 3 2018,
This is one of the "Sonderbauten" which was planned to be built by organisation Todt between 1943 and 1944 in France. The underground complex was ment to be used...
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The beach of Wissant, in Nord-Pas-de-Calais in France, is still full of WWII obstacles en bunkers. The sea is slowly pulling them in or digging away the sand from...
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Very impressive. 20.000 dead of whom very young soldiers are buried here. These soldiers came from the later drafts of the SS. Tank commander Michael Wittmann lies here buried...
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The Panzermuseum in Munster is very recommendable. The tanks and vehicles are out there to be freely walked around or touched. The collection is very complete and everything is...
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Flakturm type IV in st. Pauli is freely admissive. Nowadays the massive bunker houses a music school, shops and some offices. It also has a nightclub in the cellar...
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U-boat bunker Valentin itself, we could not enter, because we failed to schedule an appointment with the conscious professor who arranges the only tours in this bunker. Although this...
, Last update: September 27 2016,
In Bremerhaven we visited the U-boat Wilhelm Bauer (U-2540), Type XXI. This U-boat is much larger compared to type VIIC from Laboe and we recommend taking a look. It...
, Last update: January 7 2016,
At Möltenort, the U-boat memorial shows us 30,000 names engraved in a memorial wall. These are all the lost crew members of each German U-boat lost in battle. It...
, Last update: December 14 2015,
This U-boat was deployed from 1943 by the Kriegsmarine until the end of the war. Thereafter, the submarine was used by the Norwegian Navy until 1965 when it was...
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During Market Garden the British and Polish forces dropped near Arnhem needed tank support as soon as possible. American parachute troops from the 82nd and 101 airborne divisions secured...
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“Loods 24” is the former transit warehouse number 24 in the Rotterdam harbour. During the Second World War it was used to house Jews rounded up in the city of...
, Last update: September 27 2016,
May 1940. Heavy rumbling sounds fill the afternoon sky above the Netherlands. The drone rolls on for miles through the afternoon skies. The sound unnerves cattle and farmers on...
, Last update: January 7 2016,
The development of the V-3 weapon, was yet another Third Reich Vengeance project aiming to unleish it's reign across the English Channel and target London from the European mainland....
, Last update: January 30 2017,
The "Deutsches Technikmuseum" or "German Museum of Technology" in Berlin is a candy store for anyone interested in the history of technology and is even larger than the Deutsches...
, Last update: October 30 2016,
The Zeppelin Field is 312 meter wide and 285 meter long, the same size as 12 soccer fields. It has enough space for 200,000 people. The main tribune is...

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