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Concentration Camp Gross-Rosen – Rogoźnica, Poland

November 15 2015, Last update: January 2 2016, Author: Patrick

Gross-Rosen started out as subcamp in August 1940 of the concentration camp Sachsenhausen north of Berlin. A year later the Germans turned it into a concentration camp which held... Read More »

The Armistice Museum – Rethondes, Compiègne, France

October 9 2015, Last update: January 7 2016, Author: Pascal

For Adolf Hitler, the signing of the Franco-German Armistice of 22 June 1940 in a railway carriage at Compiègne, France was a great triumph. It gave him an immense... Read More »

Nazi Trials Nuremberg, Courtroom 600 – Germany

July 13 2012, Last update: October 30 2016, Author: Patrick

In April 2012 we stopped at courtroom 600 in Nuremberg. In this famous courtroom the Nazi's stood on trail for their actions during WWII. On the first and most... Read More »

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Bastogne Ardennes ’44 Museum – Bastogne Belgium

To write an article about a museum which can't be visited any longer seems odd but the museum had a great and huge cellar...

The Cenotaph in Cape Town, a WW1 and WW2 memorial – South Africa

The Cenotaph was erected in 1924, before World War Two, and was designed by Vernon March to commemorate the South African fallen soldiers in...

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel Suicide Memorial Stone – Blaustein, Germany

On 14 October 1944, two Generals came to pick up Erwin Rommel at his home. Rommel said farewell to his wife and son, got...

M4 Sherman Tank Gun Damage in Valkenburg -Limburg , The Netherlands

During the liberation of Valkenburg in the southern tip of the Netherlands, street fighting caused a Sherman M4 tank to fire its gun in...

Park Pobedy – Victory Park Kurgan – Oblast Kurgan, Russia

Like many bigger towns in Russia the Second World War or Great Patriotic War as they revere to it, are Victory Parks where you...

German Anti Tank Gun PaK 40 Municipal Hall Garden – Valkenburg, The Netherlands

A German PaK 40 Anti Tank Gun in front of the Municipal Hall in the town of Valkenburg. It is a remembrance to the...

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

Almost everyone with the slightest interest in WW2 is likely to know Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and his famous nickname "The Desert Fox" or...

Adolf Hitler’s Birthplace in Braunau am Inn, Austria

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...

WWII German War Cemetery Lommel – Kattenbos, Belgium

The German War Cemetery in Lommel is the largest WWII German Military Cemetery outside of Germany in Western Europe. The cemetery is the final...

Dunkirk WW2 – Operation Dynamo – Evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force BEF, 1940 – France

From May the 26th until the 4th of June in 1940 the British fought fiercely to evacuate their Expeditionary Force together with French, Belgium,...

Dunkirk Town Cemetery & Dunkirk Memorial – Hauts-de-France, France

There are many Nationalities to be found on this Commonwealth Cemetery for both WW1 and WW2, like British, Norwegian, Czech, New Zealand, Canadian and...