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This was the first time a German president had come to the site of one of the biggest World War II massacres on French soil. [ 26 ] On 28 April 2017, French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron visited Oradour-sur-Glane and met with the only remaining survivor of the massacre, Robert Hébras . [ 27 ]
Most of the castle lay in ruins after the war, but in 1956 the Organisation Gehlen, the U.S.-German intelligence unit that later became the nucleus of the Bundesnachrichtendienst, moved in. It was later followed by V Corps (United States) which operated a NCO academy, and by U.S. intelligence units which directed large parts of its espionage ...
The bombing of Obersalzberg was an air raid carried out by the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command on 25 April 1945 during the last days of World War II in Europe. The operation targeted Obersalzberg, a complex of residences and bunkers in Bavaria which had been built for Adolf Hitler and other key members of Germany's leadership. Many buildings ...
The Kehlsteinhaus (known in English as the Eagle's Nest) is a Nazi-constructed building erected atop the summit of the Kehlstein, a rocky outcrop that rises above Obersalzberg near the southeast German town of Berchtesgaden.
Only ruins left after the aerial Bombing of Guernica, Spain, by the Condor Legion of Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe (1937). The results of German bombardment in Warsaw, Poland (1939). Frampol before (left) and after (right) the German Luftwaffe bombing raids in September 1939 during early World War II (the town was almost completely destroyed). [1]
In the spring of 1949, the Communist Polish government ordered the dismantling of the very substantial remains of the monument; removal of the ruins continued until the 1980s, by which time virtually all traces of the memorial had gone. Today, only a protruding island in an isolated field remains to mark the extensive 120-acre (0.49 km 2) site ...
Bunker ruins near Dahlheim-Rödgen; Bunker ruins at the Burgberg, Wassenberg Castle; Defended concrete garage/barn in Wassenberg, Rosenthal; Three water-filled tank ditches in the Wurm valley near Geilenkirchen; Tank obstacle south of Geilenkirchen consisting of concrete and U-profiles from Czech war booty material; Observation post near ...
However, due to political circumstances in East Germany, the reconstruction came to a halt. The heap of ruins was conserved as a war memorial within the inner city of Dresden, as a direct counterpart to the ruins of Coventry Cathedral, which was destroyed by German bombing in 1940 and also serves as a war memorial in the United Kingdom.