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Located near the Dutch border in Horbach, a district of Aachen, are tank traps that were once part of the Westwall. Co...
Germany
The breakthrough of the first line of the so-called 'Westwall' in October 1944 was a decisive success for the US troop...
At the beginning of the Second World War, a 360-cubic metre concrete bunker vault was excavated deep into St Peter's Mou...
The Netherlands
Some talk about the Frieslandriegel, while others talk about the Assener Stellung. The fact is that the landscape in Dre...
Château Dambricourt (Dambricourt Castle) was the command post of the Festung Pi Stab 27, the German Engineer regiment fo...
France
As a neutral country, due to the greatly increased threat of war in 1939, the Netherlands took the inevitable decision t...
Fort Pannerden, built between 1869 and 1872, was the easternmost fort of the historical New Dutch Waterline. During Worl...
Tens of thousands helped dig the Assener Stellung in the last year of the war to stop the Allied tanks, but the arduous,...
The Hochbunker Pallasstraße is a former bunker of the German postal service. After the Second World War it was kept as a...
During the liberation days in April 1945, Castle De Nijenbeek came under fire during Operation Cannonshot, in which Cana...
In the shadow of the tumultuous war years, in February 1944, Reich Commissioner Arthur Seyss-Inquart moved with his staf...
In 1942, Toorenvliedt was set up as divisional headquarters for the German units on Walcheren and the Bevelanden. It was...
Shortly after the Allied airborne landings near Arnhem and Nijmegen on Sunday 17 September 1944 (part of Operation Marke...
The Flakturm Friedrichshain was a flak tower complex, which was used for protection against air raids, but also a milita...
The bunkers at Dishoek played a crucial role during the Battle of the Scheldt in 1944. After the fall of Antwerp, Hitler...
Because of the control of the Scheldt Estuary, Flushing gained an important position during the Second World War. The ci...
After all of the North Brabant area south of the (Bergse) Maas river had been liberated, a small group of German soldier...
During World War II, the former Dutch-Spanish forts from the 80-year war still proved useful. On 16 September 1944, Poli...
Located on the former site of RAF Uxbridge, the Battle of Britain Bunker housed the Fighter Command No.11 Group Operatio...
United Kingdom
The Salerno bunker is kocated on the Bellara hill, one of Salerno's most scenic points from which one can see almost all...
Italy
Constructed by Nazi Germany, the Atlantikwall was a line of defence of more than 5000 kilometres in length to prevent an...
This bunker was built in 1941 and used for civil air-raid protection from 1942 onwards. With its small size and unusua...
The prominent position of the Castle in the middle of St Aubin’s Bay, to the south of the Island and close to St Helier,...
Jersey
The Fichtebunker was a gasometer from the 19th century that was rebuilt to a bunker in 1940 and used as an air raid shel...
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