Historical story

• Krupp-Grusonwerk armament factory

  Germanys industrial development has accelerated since the countrys creation in the 1970s. Factories related to the metallurgical industry sprang up everywhere, supplying the needs of a growing population. In 1855 the Hermann Gruson company was founded in Magdeburg. The original purpose of the comp

• Buckau R. Wolf Machinery Factory

  The city of Magdeburg, on the banks of the Elbe River, was one of the most important industrial cities in Germany since the end of the 19th century. The heavy industry, related to the metal, was the great dominant within the local economy. Among the many major firms, such as Polte and Krupp, was t

• Hindenburg Barracks

  Germany had been dispossessed of its armed forces after the First World War. According to Adolf Hitler, the Treaty of Versailles was one of the greatest humiliations for which Germany had to make amends. For this reason, the rearmament policy became one of the main axes of the National Socialist tra

• Adolf Hitler Barracks in Magdeburg

  One of the main objectives of the Nazi regime was to shake off the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles, which limited the German armed forces to 110,000 troops. Unilaterally breaking with the treaty would have been dangerous for Adolf Hitler in the early 1930s, so rearmament plans were carried

• Rothensee lock system

  Until the advent of the railway, the fastest and most efficient way to transport goods was by ship. The great highways of antiquity and the Middle Ages were always navigable rivers and canals. Despite the fact that Germany rushed to build thousands of kilometers of railways since the 19th century,

• Hornisse submarine bunker

  The port of Bremen was of paramount importance to the Nazi German navy. Bremen was one of the ports where U-boats were produced, so it was also a priority target for Allied air raids. Factories and port facilities suffered numerous aerial attacks during the war, so, as in other parts of the country,

• Lebensborn Friesland

  The Lebensborn project began its journey in 1935. The project was launched on the express order of Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and one of the highest leaders of Nazi Germany. The aim of the project was to increase the birth rate of Aryan children and to protect mothers who had no one to support

• Valentin submarine bunker

  One of the trump cards of Nazi Germany to defeat Great Britain in World War II was to cut off the supply of raw materials, food and war material to the British Isles. During the early stages of the war, this had been attempted with submarines but also with the newly created German surface navy, whic

• Baggerloch Forced Labor Camp

  During World War II, Nazi Germany faced a lack of manpower to keep its factories running. The men had been mobilized and the women had to stay home to take care of the children. Because, unlike other nations, German women did not flock to factories until 1943, Hitlers Germany needed to find other so

• Wesermunde Marine School

  The city of Bremen was of vital importance to the Navy of Nazi Germany. Together with Wilhelmshaven and Kiel, it was the most important port in the country from a military point of view. A school for naval officers was established near Bremen to provide training for the growing Nazi Kriegsmarine. Th

• U-2540 Technical Museum

  Nazi Germany produced hundreds of U-boats during World War II. The objective of the German submarines was to cut off or at least reduce the merchant traffic across the Atlantic, thus stifling the war efforts of Great Britain, which depended entirely on the raw materials and food that came by sea fro

• house of german emigration

  Although today we associate Germany with wealth and industrial power, the country has traditionally been a poor country. The division into many territories, some of them with medieval organizations for the eighteenth century, caused the massive emigration of its population in search of a future in f

• Wild Field – Langlütjen II Fortress

  Shortly after German unification, the new regime built a fortified post in 1880 on an islet at the mouth of the Bremen harbour. The construction was in service until the early 1930s, when shortly after the advent of the Nazi party, the facilities were used as a wild field of the SA. More than 100 po

• Weddewarden Airfield

  In the facilities of the port of Bremen, currently the town of Bremerhaven, a small airfield was built in 1925 to serve the islands off the north coast of Germany. From this point people and goods could be transported by air to the Helgoland Islands or the Frisian Islands. In 1935 Nazi Germany took

• Nordholz Airfield

  On the outskirts of the city of Nordholz a military airfield was built in 1913. The base was widely used during the first world war. After the war, the place was abandoned, but after the Nazi party came to power, the facilities were reopened and extensively enlarged. Nazi Germany used the faciliti

• Monument to the 76th Infantry Regiment

  The defeat of Germany in the First World War caused a huge impact on German society. Although more than the military defeat, it was the peace imposed at Versailles that marked the following decades. As Churchill rightly said after the signing of the peace, «we have not signed the peace, we have only

• bunker steintorwall

  In the context of the Führer Order For anti-aircraft protection, a civil protection bunker began to be built in 1940 next to the main train station in Hamburg. Construction began in 1941, lasting more than a year. The work required the employment of hundreds of forced prisoners. The structural wal

• Villa Budge

  The so-called Villa Budge was built by local shipowner Ivan Gans in 1884 in a secluded neighborhood in the center of Hamburg. The house was sold in 1900 to the American banker Henry Budge, from whom it took its name to this day. The villa was expropriated from the bankers widow, who was of Jewish

• Command of the X military region

  During the National Socialist regime, the rearmament of the country was one of the highest priorities of the government of Adolf Hitler. Breaking with the Versailles accords, German industry soon began mass-producing weapons. Tanks, ships, and planes rolled out of factories to equip the new German W

• Memorial to Ernst Thälmann

  The political leader of the German Communist Party, the KPD was born in the city of Hamburg in 1886. Ernst Thälmann was called up in 1915 to fight in the German imperial army during the First World War. Thälmann belonged to the working class. In the years before the outbreak of the war he had bee