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Stalag Luft III - Tunnel Harry and Guard Tower

The Great Escape, Stalag Luft III – Zagan, Poland

Stalag Luft III was a POW camp build especially for Allied airmen in the vicinity of Zagan in …

Posted May 8, 2016 (updated February 14, 2022) by Patrick

Dachau Concentration Camp – Bavaria, Germany

Concentration Camp Dachau or KZ Dachau in German was the first complete concentration camp the Germans build. The …

Posted March 20, 2016 (updated February 14, 2022) by Patrick

NMM – National Military Museum – Soesterberg Air Base Park, Netherlands

The NMM or National Military Museum is one of the largest museums of the Dutch armed forces. Both …

Posted January 14, 2016 (updated February 14, 2022) by Pascal

Batz-sur-Mer – Le Grand Blockhaus

The Grand Blockhouse is a renovated 5 level fortification build by organization Todt and part of the Atlantic …

Posted January 2, 2016 (updated February 14, 2022) by Patrick

Marine-Ehrenmal at Laboe, Germany

Crossing the boulevard from the beach at Laboe where U-boat U995 type VII C is displayed, you can …

Posted December 9, 2015 (updated February 14, 2022) by Pascal

Tunnel complex Osowka, Project Riese near Walbrzych

Project Riese – Osówka, Säuferhöhen – Owl Mountains, Walbrzych Poland

In 1943 Minister of Armament and War Production Albert Speer, started, to talk about project Riese with the …

Posted December 6, 2015 (updated February 14, 2022) by Patrick

Oder Warthe Bogen Fortification Museum Poland

The Ostwall: Oder-Warthe-Bogen – Fortification Museum Pniewo, Poland

This museum offers tours inside Pz.W 716 and Pz.W 717 and walks down the vast tunnel system of …

Posted December 3, 2015 (updated May 26, 2022) by Pascal

Military Historical Museum of the Volga – Ural District – Yekaterinburg Oblast Sverdlovsk Russia

In Yekaterinburg Russia we stumbled upon the Military Museum of the Volga- Ural district. During World War Two …

Posted November 29, 2015 (updated June 10, 2022) by Patrick

Concentration camp Gross-Rosen main gate

Concentration Camp Gross-Rosen – Rogoźnica, Poland

Gross-Rosen started out as subcamp in August 1940 of the concentration camp Sachsenhausen north of Berlin. A year …

Posted November 15, 2015 (updated May 25, 2022) by Patrick

Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History – Brussels, Belgium

The Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History is an enormous museum with an impressive collection, …

Posted November 12, 2015 (updated June 15, 2022) by Pascal

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The Armistice Museum – Rethondes, Compiègne, France

For Adolf Hitler, the signing of the Franco-German Armistice of 22 June 1940 in a railway carriage at …

Posted October 9, 2015 (updated February 14, 2022) by Pascal

Kazemattenmuseum Kornwerderzand – Afsluitdijk, the Netherlands

During the construction of the 32 km long and 90m wide Afsluitdijk, a number of man made islands …

Posted April 5, 2015 (updated February 14, 2022) by Pascal

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