WAR HISTORY EUROPE
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GERMANY
KRUPP'S
SECRET WAR FACTORIES
The Krupp family's armories were the center German Ruhr
Valley war industries and sites can still be found around Essen.
LUFTWAFFE
MEMORIES
A STROLL DOWN HEINKEL LANE
Follow Germany's aviation history from the Deutsches Museum
in Munich to the hidden Messerschmitt hangar in Manching.
BIG
GUNS AND FAT UNIFORMS
Bavarian Army Museum Ingolstadt
For German military history through the ages or just a curiosity
about the fashion sense of those who changed the map of Europe, Ingolstadt
is an hour from Munich.
CASTLE RHEINSTEIN
KNIGHT WATCH ON THE RHINE
Medieval castle
on the Rhine with armor display and connection to the Holy Roman Empire
DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP
The remnant of the Dachau concentration camp now a holocaust
museum is 35 minutes from Munich and a sobering journey.
MUNICH
WALKING TOURS
Hitler’s Bavaria
Walking tours of Munich following the Nazis rise to power.
SINSHEIM
AUTO & TECHNIK MUSEUM
One of the best collections of WWII and post-war German, Russian
and Allied Armor.
HITLER'S
EAGLES NEST IN BERCHTESGADEN
WWII Hitler History Tour in Bavarian Alps
RAIL
MUSEUM BOCHUM-DAHLHAUSEN RUHR VALLEY
Steam Rail Lines Fueled Germany's War Machine
GENERAL
PATTON'S DEADLY CAR ACCIDENT SITE
Mystery of Patton's Death
SCHLEISSHEIM
FLIGHT WORKS MUSEUM
WWI and WWII Airfield Museum Near Munich
DRESDEN'S
FIREBOMBED FRAUENKIRCHE
Baroque Masterwork Rebuilt from the Ground Up
TOPOGRAPHY
OF TERROR - BERLIN
Documentation of the Nazi SS and Gestapo
Basements
of the Gestapo
BENDLERBLOCK
- VALKYRIE HITLER BOMB PLOT
German
Resistance to National Socialism Memorial
MAINZ
CITADEL FORTRESS & CITY HISTORY MUSEUM
Story of Mainz from Roman to WWII
BATTLE OF NATIONS MONUMENT LEIPZIG
Napoleons Defeat at the Battle of Leipzig
BRIDGE AT REMAGEN & PEACE MUSEUM ON THE RHINE
The Last Bridge on the Rhine Falls in 1945
COLDITZ CASTLE - WWII POW ESCAPE MUSEUM
Renaissance Castle and WWII History
HUGO JUNKERS AVIATION MUSEUM - DESSAU
All-Metal Passenger and Transpot Aircraft of WWI
FIELD MARSHAL JOSIAS SAXE-COBURG STATUE
War and Apple StrudeI
WERNIGERODE LUFTFAHRT MUSEUM
Historic Aircraft, Instruments and Filight Simulators
FLIGHT MUSEUM HANOVER
Historic Aircraft near Hannover Messe
FRANCE
PARIS INVALIDES
NATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM
French Army Museum Arms and Armor from Medieval Times through
WWII
AMERICAN MILITARY CEMETARIES IN FRANCE
Monument to
America's sacrifice stands in the woods of France's
Champagne at the Battle of Belleau Wood and the Marne.
EVERYTHING'S
FINE ON THE MAGINOT LINE
History’s Magnificent Blunder in Alsace
The folly
of France's defensive system after WWI is still in evidence in France's
Alsace region near Strasbourg.
SCARS
ON THE FRENCH COUNTRYSIDE
WWI - Battlefields of the Somme
A
half-million died in the Battle of The Somme in WWI, the pock marks of
artilley and trenches can still be found near Proziers.
CHURCHES
ON PERCHES - CASTELLANE
The Napolean Road leads north from Cannes through France's
Haute Provence regeon
CANNON
BALLS AND BOULES BALLS
Valenciennes
bears the scars of war but is a fascinating historic town on the France/Belgium
border.
KAISER
WILHELM II FORT DE MUTZIG
Largest WWI
mechanized
artillery fortress in Alsace.
MUSEUM
OF NAPOLEON MILITARY HISTORY - FONTAINEBLEAU
Napoleonic Uniforms and Military Memorabilia
BRITAIN’S
UNKOWN WARRIOR TOUR
WWI Battle Fields of France Remembrance Tour
MAGINOT
LINE FORT SIMSERHOF – BITCHE
Largest Fortress in the Moselle
BITCHE
CITADEL WALLS
Vauban Bastion Fortress of Lorraine-Moselle
PFAFFENHOFFEN
- WWII CROSSROADS
Last
Town in Alsace Liberated by 3rd Army on the Moder River
70TH ANNIVERSARY NORMANDY D-DAY TOURS
Guided Coach Tours 1944 Europe Liberation
NORMANDY D-DAY MUSEUMS TRAIL
Six D-Day Landing Museums on the Normandy Coast
ENGLAND
FROM
TRAITOR'S GATE TO MORTIMER'S HOLE
Follow the trail of Roger Mortimer who nearly overthrew the
Plantagent kings but met the traitor's fate at the hand of the young Edward
III
WARWICK
CASTLE
Medieval Ghosts and Love Birds
One of best preserved Medieval Castles in England with lots of
activities
for families and history buffs alike.
UP
RIVER WITHOUT AN OAR
Rowing and Revolution at Henley-on-Thames
The home to England's rowing rivalry on the countryside River Thames
with a hotel that has been host to three kings of history.
YORKSHIRE AIR MUSEUM
Aviation History at former WWII Bomber Base Northern England
CHURCHILL
MUSEUM AND CABINET WAR ROOMS
Underground London Command Center for WWII
MANCHESTER
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY
War Planes exhibit at the Mechanics Museum
IMPERIAL
WAR MUSEUM NORTH
20th Century War History at Manchester Salford Quays
HACK
GREEN SECRET NUCLEAR BUNKER
The Cold War Lives Underground in Cheshire Countryside
IMPERAL
WAR MUSEUM - DUXFORD
AIR SHOWS
Aircraft Displays and Flying Shows in Cambridgeshire
LAVENHAM
- SWAN HOTEL OLD BAR
487th Bomb Group Signiture Wall in
East Anglia
TANGMERE MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM SUSSEX
RAF Battle of Britain Airfield South England
HMS BELFAST IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM SHIP
WWII Cruiser in the Thames River
SOE SPY SCHOOL BEAULIEU
WWII Agent Train Center in Hampshire
RIFLES BERKSHIRE WILTSHIRE REGIMENTAL MUSEUM - SALISBURY
Military History at Salisbury Cathedral Close
APSLEY HOUSE - DUKE OF WELLINTON - LONDON
The Duke of Wellington's Grand London Residence
WALES
WWII
IN BRITAIN ON THE HOME FRONT - LLANDUDNO
WWII at Home Museum in Wales Seaside Resort
CAERNARVON
CASTLE - WELCH ROYAL FUSILIERS
Castle Museum of the Welsh Fusiliers
IRELAND
COLLINS
BARRACKS - IRELAND MILITARY HISTORY - DUBLIN
Irish
Conflicts and Decorative Arts Museum
INNISKILLINGS
FUSILIER MUSEUM - FERMANAGH
Fusiliers and Dragoon Guards Regimental Museum
BATTLE
OF THE BOYNE PARK & VISITORS CENTER - MEATH
Battlefield of Irish Destiny
WAR
MEMORIAL & HOME FRONT EXHIBIT BELFAST
World War II History in Northern Ireland
HMS CAROLINE WWI CRUISER BELFAST
WWI Ship from the Battle of Jutland Open in Titanic Quarter
ITALY
STONE AND GRAPES: THE CASTLES OF TRENTINO
Adige Valley Castle jousting and tournaments of the
Renaissance
BELGIUM
WATERLOO
BATTLEGROUND
Wellington and Napoleon Museums
Long after the fight is over several museums commemorate on of the most famous
battles in European war history.
FLANDERS
FIELDS IN "THE
GREAT WAR"
WWI Monuments and Museums of Belgium
The bloodiest battles
of World War I were fought in the poppy covered fields of Flanders Belgium.
"BATTLE
OF THE BULGE" WWII WAR
SITES
Touring Ardennes Museums & Monuments
A trail of museums battlefield monuments in eastern Belgium
GERMAN
WWII CEMETERY RECOGNE
Soldaten Dead from Bastogne and Ardennes
Cemetary just outside of Bastogne
BASTOGNE "BAND OF BROTHERS" FOXHOLES
Famous Battle of the Bulge Town isn't All War
Foy Foxholes, McAuliffe "Nuts" and Patton's Road
BATTLE
OF THE ARDENNES MUSEUM
La Roche-en-Ardennes
FORT
BATTICE - LIEGE 1940
Liege Defense Line Bunkers
PASSCHENDAELE
1917 MEMORIAL MUSEUM
Battlefield Tunnels and Tyne Cot Cemetery
Artifacts, Tunnels and largest British WWI Cemetery
BRUSSELS
ROYAL ARMY MUSEUM
Military History under the Triumph Arch in Jubilee Park
One
of Europe's Largest Collections of 19th Century and WWI
ST
GEORGE’S WWI MEMORIAL CHURCH - YPRES
Memory of the Fallen in Flanders Fields
LUXEMBOURG
MILITARY
CEMETARY LUXEMBOURG
Where George S. Patton is Buried
SWITZERLAND
BOURBAKI
PANORAMA LUCERNE
Grand Diarama Illustration of Franco-Prussian
War
One of the world's first war histroy diaramas
CHATEAU
DE MORGES MILITARY MUSEUM
Swiss Arms Museum on Lake Geneva
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