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Beneath the Streets of Prague, Czechia
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I find Cold War history frightening and fascinating, so when I found out there was a museum in a nuclear bunker right under the city centre of Prague, Czechia, I promptly booked myself a tour.
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Diving the Ghosts of Corsica, Part II, France
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Below Calvi’s towering citadel walls, we descended beneath the waves to explore one of Corsica’s World War Two ghosts.
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Diving the Ghosts of Corsica, Part I, France
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Just off the Corsican village of Miomo, a mystery of World War Two lies in twenty metres of water.
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Visiting Mac, France
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It was a cold and drizzly day when we pulled up beside V.C. Corner Cemetery near Fromelles, France. We had come to visit a member of our family who had been in Fromelles since 1916.
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Hangar 10, Germany
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A big part of why I had traveled to Germany’s Baltic Coast was to visit the small village of Zirchow. And the entire reason I wanted to visit the small village of Zirchow was to go to Hangar 10, a museum which houses a unique collection of rare aircraft.
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Exploring the Westwall, Germany
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Remnants of Hitler’s Westwall fortifications, known as the ‘Siegfried Line’ to the Allies, can still be found along Germany’s western border.
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Red Cross Concentration Camp, Serbia
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Visiting the Red Cross Concentration Camp was unsettling, confronting and heart-wrenching.
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Visiting the Berlin Wall, Germany
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Although I couldn’t reconcile the tourist carnival of Checkpoint Charlie with the gravity of what had occurred there during the Cold War, the remnant of the Berlin Wall was a chilling reminder of the consequence of placing social theory and political ideology above human dignity.
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Machern Stasi Bunker Museum, Germany
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Tucked away near the small village of Machern is a Stasi bunker that remained a secret until the end of the German Democratic Republic in 1989.
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Strange Meeting, Poland
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After seeing the main areas of Birkenau Concentration Camp, Poland, and learning of the horrors that had occurred there, it was a relief to find a tranquil patch of nature. Whilst enjoying the quiet and the late afternoon sun, I had a strange meeting.