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Pages in category "World War II museums in Germany" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The Siegfried Line Museum at Pirmasens (German: Westwallmuseum Pirmasens) is a museum in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate that is housed in a former subterranean fortification on the edge of the village of Niedersimten in southwest Palatinate (region). Its theme is war, but it also views itself as a memorial to peace.
Merkers Adventure Mines are a visitor attraction in Krayenberggemeinde in the Wartburgkreis district of Thuringia, Germany, owned and operated by K+S AG of Kassel. They lie near the village of Merkers. The mines have a long history of salt extraction, and hold the record for concealing large amounts of Nazi gold during World War II.
Prior to World War II, Poland had the largest Jewish community in Europe, of which over three million (90%) were murdered. [11] Death and labor camps were built in Central Europe by the German occupational authorities in the late 1930s and early 1940s, many of them in Poland, of which Auschwitz was the first and largest.
Nazi Germany: Type XXI: 1945 Formerly Wilhelm Bauer (West Germany) U-9 (S188) Technik Museum Speyer, Speyer: West Germany: Type 205: 1966 2] U-10 (S189) Deutsches Marinemuseum, Wilhelmshaven: West Germany
Eleven themed tours are offered and three chronologies: 1300–1914, 1914–1945 and 1945–today. [ 11 ] Among historically significant items displayed is the ship's bell from SMS Schleswig-Holstein , a pre-dreadnought battleship that fired what are generally regarded as the first shots of World War II (in Europe) when on Sept. 1, 1939, it ...
Soviet bas-relief sculpture in the museum . The museum is located at the historical venue of the unconditional surrender of the German armed forces on 8 May 1945.With this act of ratification in Karlshorst of the instrument of surrender signed the day before in Rheims, World War II came to an end in Europe.
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. It was used exclusively by members of the Nazi Party for government and social meetings.
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