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.
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.
A control tower was erected at West Berlin's Joachimsthaler Platz to manage car traffic in 1956.
The Albert Canal was opened to shipping in 1939. However, its construction had consequences for rail traffic. Railway line 20's route between Hasselt and Maastricht was changed, and the Albert Canal at Gellik was crossed via a Vierendeel bridge.
The Western Scheldt, the gateway to the port of Antwerp, played an essential role during World War II.
Hikers in a new nature reserve in West Flanders were surprised to find the carcass of a Volkswagen van among the greenery. The van was reportedly once parked there as a hunting cabin.
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.
The bayonet trench in Douamont, France, is a war memorial on the Verdun battlefield that rests on a war myth.
Although today, Vloethemveld is a 350-hectare nature reserve a stone's throw from Bruges, it was once home to a Belgian army ammunition depot and the nature area also hides other military secrets.
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