Eighty years after the end of WWII, a small open site next to the Berlin Philharmonie still bears the memory of hundreds of thousands of victims of the Nazi eradication of ‘life unworthy of life’
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10 Вересня 2022
‘Valkyrie’ movie with Tom Cruise is one of the most historically accurate films devoted to WWII and it was filmed across Berlin in a number of locations of historical importance
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23 Липня 2022
Almost eighty years after July 20, 1944, the history of the German Resistance, Claus von Stauffenberg, and the sacral site in the center of Berlin still has so much to tell us
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18 Червня 2022
The notorious Soviet War Memorial in Berlin park Tiergarten has its own long and dubious history on the heels of the Battle for Berlin in 1945
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07 Травня 2022
The cozy memorial site amid the Forest of Compiegne resembles the events of the two World Wars and its climaxes on the Western Front
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22 Січня 2022
The battle of Sainte-Mere-Eglise on June 6-7, 1944 is still among the most cited episodes of the D-day and WWII in general, which is worths detailed consideration.
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30 Жовтня 2021
The history of the village of Benouville, the Caen canal, and the Orne river goes far beyond the fateful events of June 6, 1944, and it is worth a detailed consideration
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31 Липня 2021
The city of Bayeux is the first French town liberated after D-Day and its history goes far beyond the initial phase of the Battle of Normandy
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29 Травня 2021
A thoroughly detailed historical narration regarding Adolf Hitler’s only visit to Paris, France in June 1940 and the life of the city under Nazis
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04 Квітня 2021
The notorious Syrets concentration camp in Kyiv has historically received less attention than one is due by virtue of the fact, that up to 25 000 people perished here next to Babi yar ravine
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06 Лютого 2021
At a time, when Babi Yar ravine in Kyiv has become a destination point for historical pilgrimage, a number of sites in its vicinity are still rare known and appraised for a visit
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26 Грудня 2020
Even 80 years after the dramatic events in the ravine of Babi yar in Kyiv, Ukraine, a number of issues are still to be clarified. The most recent scholarly unveils facts and debunk myths and distortions
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08 Листопада 2020
Up to 85% of the city center of Warsaw was devastated during WWII. Yet the bare figures do not include a dramatic and factless story of the devastation of Warsaw as it was brought into reality.
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26 Вересня 2020
Warsaw city was Alpha and Omega for doctor Janusz Korczak (Henryk Goldsmith). Let’s walk and research the preserved and vanished locations, related with the ‘Children’s Republic’.
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15 Серпня 2020
Shortly after the devastation and partition of Poland, Adolf Hitler made his visit to a conquered city of Warsaw to view the so-called ‘Parade of Victory’ and to ride across the city
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04 Липня 2020
Let’s walk beside the main Warsaw filming locations of the iconic ‘The Pianist’ movie by Roman Polanski. A story of Wladyslaw Szpilman as it depicted in cinema
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30 Травня 2020
After almost 80 years, we could still trace and reveal the hiding places of the famous Polish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman, which had become his survival shelters in Warsaw, Poland.
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02 Травня 2020
Historically detailed on-walk research of the sites beyond the infamous ‘UMSCHAGPLATZ’ in Warsaw. The history of the area and the surrounding buildings, which could be traced back in history.
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04 Квітня 2020
The historical journey along the streets of the city of Thessaloniki in Greece and the tragedy of the local Jewish community during the German occupation 1941-1943
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15 Лютого 2020
Hitler’s visit to Florence had become an apogee of the whole diplomatic trip to Italy back in May 1938 and of strengthening the alliance with fascist Italy and Benito Mussolini.
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11 Січня 2020
A historically detailed tour along the main sites and landmarks of Rome, which once witnessed a state visit of Adolf Hitler, hosted by Benito Mussolini and King Victor Emmanuel III.
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15 Грудня 2019
An extensively detailed historical walk along the former Hitler’s headquarters near the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia. The ‘Wehrwolf’ military headquarters
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23 Листопада 2019
The historically-detailed tour along the sites of historical significance attributed to the life and death of Erwin Rommel in Ulm and Herrlingen back in 1944.
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02 Листопада 2019
An extensively detailed walking tour around the territory of the Dachau Memorial Site, a stimulus to ignore the bus ride and to walk 30 minutes deepening into the history of the place
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12 Жовтня 2019
The final article in my MUNICH series would lead you along the preserved and perished locations of the Third Reich in Munich: Hitler’s homes and party headquarters.
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23 Вересня 2019
The history of the Nazi movement and the Rise of the Third Reich is closely connected to a number of public places in Munich, including the largest beer halls in Bavaria.
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02 Вересня 2019
I will take you across all main locations of the 1923 Hitler’s failed Beer Hall Putsch, with historical insight into every site or building before, within, and after the Third Reich era until today
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10 Серпня 2019
The War Memorial in Munich’s Hofgarten, known as the ‘KRIEGERDENKMAL MEMORIAL’ honors the memory of the soldiers and victims of both the First World War and the Second World War
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20 Липня 2019
The city of Nuremberg was once considered as the ‘most German city’ and a number of historical locations and buildings have been preserved or renovated after the War and are still accessible.
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28 Червня 2019
The Palace of Justice in Nuremberg is way more than another tourist site, rather a historical landmark of the Second World War, with its Courtroom 600 and stations of the museum exhibition.
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14 Червня 2019
Let’s walk along the Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg, a preserved historical landmark and the open-air museum of the Third Reich era with all its parade grounds and buildings.
14 552 Views
02 Червня 2019
‘National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War’ in Kiev, Ukraine, has one among the biggest museum collections on the Second World World, estimated more than 400 000 items.
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18 Травня 2019
The enormously large territory of the former Auschwitz death camp includes a number of sites of historical importance, including those around ‘Stammlager’ 1
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27 Квітня 2019
An exhaustedly detailed 1000 page-volume biography of Adolf Hitler, written by Ian Kershaw, one of the most prominent historians of our times.
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13 Квітня 2019
A number of objects of the historical importance on the outskirts of the infamous Auschwitz Birkenau and beyond the camp fence. Rarely visited locations around the Museum.
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31 Березня 2019
DEF (Deutsche Emailwarenfabrik) became world-known because of the “Schindler’s list” movie and today host a three-floor historical exhibition on the German occupation of Kraków.
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10 Березня 2019
Let’s walk an extensively detailed walking route around all the movie locations in Krakow, where Schindler’s list (1993) movie by Steven Spielberg was filmed. Krakow streets, Plaszow site, Auschwitz Birkenau
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16 Лютого 2019
History of the “Vienna period” of Adolf Hitler’s life. Extensive tour along the sites in Vienna, where Hitler lived, used to walk, sell his paintings, spent his time
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15 Січня 2019
Detailed historical and movie analysis of the Leni Riefenstahl’s “Triumph of the Will” (Triumph des Willens). Infamous Nazi propaganda documentary movie, which glorified the 1934 Party Congress in Nuremberg and Hitler
26 608 Views
04 Січня 2019
My on-walk tour along the sites of the former Jewish Ghetto in Krakow, Poland. Preserved buildings of the Nazi Krakow during the Holocaust.
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01 Грудня 2018
I’ve visited Krakow and former Plaszow Concentration Camp (Plaszow forced labor camp) in May 2018 and performed and extreme walking and historical tour along the main sites.
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06 Листопада 2018
Profound and modern study on the War in the West by James Holland is considered to be on the most authoritative studies within the years.
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05 Серпня 2018
Adolf Hitler had lived in Linz and its suburb Leonding from 1899 until 1907. I’ve visited his school, home, graves of parents and other places.
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04 Травня 2018
Places in Austria famous because of the Anschluss in March 1938 and after-period of the Ennexation of Austria by the Germany. All the sites then and now
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05 Березня 2018
Mauthausen Concentration Camp bear Linz is a historical monument of the Holocaust, remained today as a Memorial
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12 Лютого 2018
Prominent historical research by brirish author hugh Trevor Roper on the Hitler’s last days in Spring 1945
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11 Січня 2018
Monument against Fascim in the very heart of Vienna honors victims of the Second World War, both military and civil
10 855 Views
04 Січня 2018
Slavin Memorial Complex in Bratislava honors memory of whose, who died for the liberation and independence of Slovakia
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07 Грудня 2017
Nazi Flak Towers in Vienna resemble the former war greatness of the Third Reich and the scale of the Second World War
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03 Листопада 2017
Prominent Holocasut book “The Destruction of the European Jews” by professor Raul Hilberg, stiil well-known since first publication in 1961
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20 Жовтня 2017
I offer you a unique perspective to look at the historical WW2 sites, then and today. Not only to read about the places of battles, about concentration camps, assembly halls but to manage your own travel in areas that are interesting for you personally, as one who is keen on the topic of the Second World War.
The first direction of my travel experience are the places of the Second World War of the “peace period”. They are, first of all, the historical parts of European cities associated with important events or personalities of European history. Walking towards the places of Adolf Hitler in Vienna and Munich, observing buildings from the time of the Third Reich in Nuremberg, walking the motorcade routes of high-ranking officials, halls for conferences and speeches, the graves of the field commanders or post-war museums. The topics of these articles reveal the story from a deeper perspective, offering a broader view of the people who initiated and maintained the war and those who participated in it by someone else's will. All sorts of World War II museums and memorials around the world present an endless interest for everyone interested.
Apart theme in my understanding is the places associated with the Holocaust and war crimes. Visiting former Nazi concentration camps in Germany, Holocaust death camps in Poland, places of mass executions in Ukraine, I do not limit myself to excerpts from books or informational booklets. The motivation for me is an attempt to understand a particular place, its history, and geography, including post-war events. Museums and memorial complexes serve as an aid for self-education in the subject of the Holocaust, offering us material evidence of the worst crime in history. Even where only grass, ruins and a memorial tablet remained from the former place of memory, you can find a reason to study history in an interesting way and share it with others.
Another direction of my travels are the WW2 battlefields today, military museums, monuments to soldiers and former military leaders, WW2 buildings today. In contrast to all sorts of tours, where the route is usually limited to a pair of mandatory points, I try to explore thoroughly the history and geography of each location, each of ww2 sites then and now. Present the scale of what happened, get acquainted with the preserved evidence, examine the maximum sources. Articles from such places arouse their strong interest in military history.
Best WW2 Books nonfiction. After 1945, the world has witnessed thousands of ww2 books, the revelation of the collections of documents, published diaries, trophy military archives, court records (for example, materials of the Nuremberg Trial), analytical works, encyclopedias. These World War Two books represent the work and opinions of people who have been witnesses, participants or victims of the conflict, or works of professional historians, journalists, and writers. The general volume of these ww2 history books with military literature covers from one hundred pages to many volumes, which continue to be translated into dozens of languages, reprinted, updated and criticized for their misjudgments.
The first direction of my travel experience are the places of the Second World War of the “peace period”. They are, first of all, the historical parts of European cities associated with important events or personalities of European history. Walking towards the places of Adolf Hitler in Vienna and Munich, observing buildings from the time of the Third Reich in Nuremberg, walking the motorcade routes of high-ranking officials, halls for conferences and speeches, the graves of the field commanders or post-war museums. The topics of these articles reveal the story from a deeper perspective, offering a broader view of the people who initiated and maintained the war and those who participated in it by someone else's will. All sorts of World War II museums and memorials around the world present an endless interest for everyone interested.
Apart theme in my understanding is the places associated with the Holocaust and war crimes. Visiting former Nazi concentration camps in Germany, Holocaust death camps in Poland, places of mass executions in Ukraine, I do not limit myself to excerpts from books or informational booklets. The motivation for me is an attempt to understand a particular place, its history, and geography, including post-war events. Museums and memorial complexes serve as an aid for self-education in the subject of the Holocaust, offering us material evidence of the worst crime in history. Even where only grass, ruins and a memorial tablet remained from the former place of memory, you can find a reason to study history in an interesting way and share it with others.
Another direction of my travels are the WW2 battlefields today, military museums, monuments to soldiers and former military leaders, WW2 buildings today. In contrast to all sorts of tours, where the route is usually limited to a pair of mandatory points, I try to explore thoroughly the history and geography of each location, each of ww2 sites then and now. Present the scale of what happened, get acquainted with the preserved evidence, examine the maximum sources. Articles from such places arouse their strong interest in military history.
For the last decades, the world saw thousands of different kinds of documentary films about the Second World War. WW2 footage generally differs in quality, the selection of archival cadres, the credibility of specialists involved. A lifetime is not enough to watch them all, but we have enough for the most famous works. WW2 documentaries can be conditionally divided by different criteria, including duration, as not everyone is ready to watch ten hours of military newsreels or interviews with former veterans. Within my WAR-DOCUMENTARY blog, you will find a thorough analysis of the most recognizable and often cited documentary projects on the theme of the Second World War.
The first direction of my travel experience are the places of the Second World War of the “peace period”. They are, first of all, the historical parts of European cities associated with important events or personalities of European history. Walking towards the places of Adolf Hitler in Vienna and Munich, observing buildings from the time of the Third Reich in Nuremberg, walking the motorcade routes of high-ranking officials, halls for conferences and speeches, the graves of the field commanders or post-war museums. The topics of these articles reveal the story from a deeper perspective, offering a broader view of the people who initiated and maintained the war and those who participated in it by someone else's will. All sorts of World War II museums and memorials around the world present an endless interest for everyone interested.
Apart theme in my understanding is the places associated with the Holocaust and war crimes. Visiting former Nazi concentration camps in Germany, Holocaust death camps in Poland, places of mass executions in Ukraine, I do not limit myself to excerpts from books or informational booklets. The motivation for me is an attempt to understand a particular place, its history, and geography, including post-war events. Museums and memorial complexes serve as an aid for self-education in the subject of the Holocaust, offering us material evidence of the worst crime in history. Even where only grass, ruins and a memorial tablet remained from the former place of memory, you can find a reason to study history in an interesting way and share it with others.
Another direction of my travels are the WW2 battlefields today, military museums, monuments to soldiers and former military leaders, WW2 buildings today. In contrast to all sorts of tours, where the route is usually limited to a pair of mandatory points, I try to explore thoroughly the history and geography of each location, each of ww2 sites then and now. Present the scale of what happened, get acquainted with the preserved evidence, examine the maximum sources. Articles from such places arouse their strong interest in military history.
