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On 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed when 643 civilians, including non-combatant men, women, and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company as collective punishment for Resistance activity in the area including the capture and subsequent execution of a close friend of Waffen-SS ...
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 ...
Plan of MRU. The Festungsfront Oder-Warthe-Bogen (Fortified Front Oder-Warthe-Bogen), also called the Festung im Oder-Warthe-Bogen or Ostwall (East Wall), and in Polish the Międzyrzecki Rejon Umocniony, MRU (Międzyrzecz Fortification Region), was a fortified military defence line of Nazi Germany between the Oder and Warta rivers, near Międzyrzecz.
In 1957, West Germany is one of the founding nations of the European Economic Community. In 1973, West Germany joins the United Nations (formed in 1945). In 1991, a unified Germany is allowed by the Allies of World War II to become fully sovereign after signing the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany.
The Third Reich in Ruins. "Eagle's Nest". studiosevenum.nl. Archived from the original on March 18, 2015. 360° Virtual Tour of Kehlsteinhaus. "Kehlsteinhaus". Berchtesgaden. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014 "Kehlsteinhaus - Hitler's Eagles Nest". August 9, 2017. Pictures (in German)
The Adlerhorst ("Eagle's Nest") was a World War II bunker complex in Germany, located near Langenhain-Ziegenberg, the later settlement of Wiesental and Kransberg within the districts of Wetteraukreis and Hochtaunuskreis in the state of Hesse.
Aerial view of the memorial with honor guards, West Berlin, 1983. The memorial was built from stonework taken from the destroyed Reich Chancellery.Built in a style similar to other Soviet World War II monuments that were once found all over the former Eastern Bloc, the memorial takes the form of a curved stoa topped by a large statue of a Soviet soldier.
The Old Town of Frankfurt in June 1945 showing the destruction caused by the allied bombing raids. Post-war reconstruction of Frankfurt was the broad period from 1945 into the 1960s during which the city of Frankfurt am Main in Germany removed the rubble created by Allied raids and the subsequent battle by Allied ground forces to take the city and rebuilt the damaged parts of city.