In 1876, German industrialist Max Duttenhöfer founded the explosives factory "Düneberger Pulverfabrik" near the German city of Hamburg, where gunpowder and other explosives were produced during both world wars.
In 1876, German industrialist Max Duttenhöfer founded the explosives factory "Düneberger Pulverfabrik" near the German city of Hamburg, where gunpowder and other explosives were produced during both world wars.
Crumbling Soviet statues look with sorrow at the decline of one of the most important bases of the Russian air force in East Germany: the Pütnitz airport in Damgarten.
From 1936 onwards, hundreds of scientists, engineers and technicians settled in the German fishing village of Peenemünde on the Baltic Sea to develop and test the V2 rocket.
When you say Wallers-Arenberg, you immediately think of the infamous cobblestone section in Paris-Roubaix bicycle road race, but Arenberg is also the name of the coal mine site located on the forest's edge.
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