The construction of the "Nationale Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Buchenwald" got under way in 1954 as per GDR government resolution. By 1958, a monumental national monument had been erected on the southern slope of the Ettersberg. Three large mass graves were incorporated into the design.
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Buchenwald concentration camp, officially KL Buchenwald, was one of the largest concentration camps on German soil. It was operated as a forced labor camp on the Ettersberg near Weimar between July 1937 and April 1945. A total of around 277,800 people from 50 countries were imprisoned in Buchenwa...
Photo of British Army Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery (centre of photo) and Soviet Red Army Marshal Georgy Zhukov (left from Montgomery) in Berlin in front of the Brandenburg Gate in July 1945. Just over a month after World War II in Europe ceased in Berlin following Germany's surrender.
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🇬🇧 4 May. Today is the Remembrance of the Dead. We remember the dead, the victims of World War II. We will keep 2 minuts of silence at 8 pm. You too?
🇳🇱 4 mei. Vandaag is Nationale Dodenherkening. Deze dag herinneren de doden, de slachtoffers van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Om 20.00 uur h...
The Great Famine was a period of mass starvation during the Axis occupation of Greece (1941–1944), during WWII. The local population suffered greatly during this period, while the Axis Powers initiated a policy of large-scale plunder. Requisitions, together with a blockade by the Allies, the ruin...
Code talkers were Native Americans who used their tribal language to send secret communications on the battlefield. They were fluent in both their tribal language and in English.
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At least 14 Native nations, including the Navajo, Cherokee and Comanche, served as code talkers in both th...
Iceland was a part of the Danish monarchy, governed by a personal union with the Danish crown, at the start of World War II. Like other Scandinavian nations, Iceland formally declared itself neutral. However, neutrality would soon be hard to uphold.
On May 10, 1940 after refusing to jo...
A German soldier shows a helmet, for a photograph, which had been struck by a bullet, having both the entry and exit whole clearly visible.
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One would be very lucky to survive a hit like that, as it may have just went past the head.
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"There would appear to be little hatred left, either by or for those who were once our enemies, and farewells between prisoners and their handful of guards were friendly."
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The last German prisoners of war leave Britain to return home, some three years after the end of World War Two.
Imperial monument in Dortmund-Hohensyburg (Germany).
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The memorial commemorates Emperor Wilhelm I, a Prussian and German monarch. From 1814, he fought against Napoleon's army, including in the Battle of Waterloo. He became King of Prussia in 1861 and was German Emperor from 1871 until ...
A US fighter plane, a Grumman F6F Hellcat, accidently loses an HVAR (High Velocity Aircraft Rocket) while landing on a US Navy aircraft carrier.
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#f6f #f6fhellcat #grumman #grummanf6fhellcat #plane #warplane #bomberplane #bomber #aircraft #aircraftcarrier #rocket #hvar #american #usnav...
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Today in history, on 21 April 1918, Manfred von Richthofen, more famously known as "the Red Baron", was shot down and k*lled. His d*ath served a crushing blow to German morale.
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A day earlier, on 20 April, von Richthofen made his 80th and last k*ll; a Sopwith Camel...
