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Stjepan Filipović Monument.
Valjevo, Serbia

Stjepan Filipović Monument

A tribute to a man who defied the Nazis until his last breath.
The Warsaw Uprising Monument.
Warsaw, Poland

Warsaw Uprising Monument

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.
A weird wartime target.
Linby, England

Linby Docks

A blunder resulted in these charming stone-lined streams becoming the target of a Nazi bombing.
Heligoland (foreground) and Düne beyond.
Heligoland, Germany

Heligoland

This strategic isle was once swapped between empires and almost entirely destroyed in a bomb explosion.
On the evening of April 26, 1945, 6,887 prisoners are assembled in the roll call area before setting off on a “death march."
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The Prisoner Who Painted Dachau's Horrors

Georg Tauber's sketches and paintings are now the subject of an exhibition at the very site where he was imprisoned between 1940 and 1945.
Sukhada Tatke July 17, 2017
Essen, Germany

Villa Hugel

The monumental home of Prussia’s eccentric "Cannon King."
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Found: An Unprecedented Trove of Original Nazi Artifacts in Argentina

A hidden passage led investigators to a collection of 75 astonishing objects.
Sarah Laskow June 20, 2017
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A Live Nazi Artillery Shell Was Recently Found—in a Shed in Idaho

No one is quite sure how it got there.
Erik Shilling June 6, 2017
Pāhoa, Hawaii

Raëlian UFO Peace Park

A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.
David Černý's "Feast of Giants" bus stop shelter.
Liberec, Czechia

Hostina Obrů (Feast of Giants)

An unusual bronze bus shelter is actually an art installation commenting on the city's history with the Nazi party.
A board game produced around 1939 allowed German children to imagine themselves strangling the British coastline with aircraft and U-boats.
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The Nazi Board Games of World War II

These relics of wartime propaganda and anti-Semitism were designed for playtime.
Eve Kahn April 27, 2017
The closed entrance to the mining cave.
Siegen, Germany

Hainer Stollen

The abandoned mine where American troops discovered a treasure trove of art and artifacts hidden by the Nazis.
Permanently Closed
DeJarnette Sanitarium.
Staunton, Virginia

Abandoned DeJarnette Sanitarium

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.
Taizé Community buildings.
Taizé, France

Taizé Community

A Christian retreat founded to welcome refugees fleeing from the Nazis during World War II.
Bunker under Gare de l'Est
Paris, France

WWII Bunker Under Gare de l'Est

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.
The hotel as it looks today.
L'Aquila, Italy

Hotel Campo Imperatore

This Italian ski resort rose to fame when Benito Mussolini was held prisoner there and then rescued by the SS.
The submarine pens in La Rochelle.
La Rochelle, France

Nazi U-Boat Pens, La Pallise

A massive base for the Nazis' most formidable weapon in the Atlantic.
Prisoners at concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, December 19, 1938.
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Found: Tens of Thousands of Previously Unknown Nazi Persecution Sites

Expecting to find 5,000 camps and other sites, researchers have documented 42,500.
Sarah Laskow January 26, 2017