Einst ein schönes Beispiel eines Renaissanceschlosses in der Oberlausitz, teilt Schloss Hennersdorf (polnisch: Pałacu w Jędrzychowicach) das wechselvolle Schicksal vieler historischer Anwesen östlich ...

The rise and fall of Schloss Hennersdorf: a once-grand Baroque manor near Görlitz, now a haunting ruin in Jędrzychowice, Poland.

The German Democratic Republic - and the over 1,100 Soviet military installations within it - were once home to 500,000 Soviet soldiers and countless military family members. Entire cities sprung up ...

We’ve already written an introduction about the development of Wünsdorf into the Military Headquarters of the Reichsheer in 1914 as well as its transformation into the headquarters of the ...

25 years (almost to the day) after of Adolf Hitlers suicide – his, and the ashes of some of his compatriots – were unceremoniously dumped into the river Ehle outside of Magedburg. His corpse, as well ...

The Flugplatz Brandis, 20km east of Leipzig, was built between 1934 and 1936 during the first wave of Nazi Luftwaffe rearmament. Designated as the “Blindflugschule 1”, it was set up to train Luftwaffe ...

Danke seiner historischen und symbolischen Austrahlungskraft war N\u00fcrnberg f\u00fcr die Nationalsozialisten von zentraler wichtigkeit. Die Stadt war ein wichtiges zentrum im Heiligen ...

Nuremberg held a special place in Nazi Germany due to its historical significance and symbolic value. The city had been a center of the Holy Roman Empire and was associated with Germanic culture and ...

The Flugplatz Finsterwalde – like so many of the Luftwaffe Airfields of the Third Reich – was purpose built between 1934 and 1935. While the Flugplatz Finsterwalde only had a grass runway – roughly ...

The Germans had a knack for building bunkers, from tiny one-man-bunkers to the monstrous U-Boat bunkers in Bremen and Brest. Considering how many different variations of bunkers the Germans built ...

Few monuments encapsulate the image of Germany (and Berlin) as much as the Brandenburg Gate. Of all the National Monuments in Germany, the neoclassical structure is by far the most recognisable (i’m ...