The Zwin region between Belgium and the Netherlands has had an eventful military past as a natural border since the Hundred Years' War broke loose. Even during World War I, the border region came back into focus.
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The Zwin region between Belgium and the Netherlands has had an eventful military past as a natural border since the Hundred Years' War broke loose. Even during World War I, the border region came back into focus.
With a bunker as its foundation and on top of a floodbank, Air Guard Tower 5K3 offered a broad view over the Hollandsch Diep and the Mariapolder beyond.
In the 20th century, the French commune of Bachy had more than 40 customs officers keeping an eye on the train station and along the approach roads from Belgium.
You bump into this brick obelisk at the edge of a forest in northern France. The monument was erected more than two centuries ago.
World War I drove soldiers from all over the world to the battlefield in West Flanders. More than a hundred thousand Senegalese tirailleurs were also called up.
The Western Scheldt, the gateway to the port of Antwerp, played an essential role during World War II.
The Belgian army erected an observation post on the remains of the presbytery of St Catherine's Chapel in Pervijze during World War I.
Not much remains of Ramskapelle's former railway station today, as it was shot to pieces during the Battle of the Yser. The station was, therefore, right on the front line along the Yser.
The thousand inhabitants of the French village of Orne, on the edge of a forest in the early 20th century, were awoken from their idyllic lives at the outbreak of the First World War.
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