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  • An LCVP or Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel, loaded with American soldiers approaches the "easy Red" sector of Omaha beach at 7.30 am on 6th June 1944 during the Normandy Landings, photograph, in the Musee de la Reddition, or Surrender Museum, a history museum commemorating the Nazi surrender in 1945 ending WWII, opened in 1985, in Reims, Marne, Grand Est, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Photographs of the camp and audio recordings of people interned, in the Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, at a military camp built 1938 in Rivesaltes, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. Also known as Camp Marechal Joffre, the camp was originally built as a military base, and became a camp for refugees after the Spanish Civil War, then an internment camp during the Second World War, and eventually a transit camp for Jews, 2000 of whom were transferred to Auschwitz. The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, designed by Rudy Ricciotti, was inaugurated in 2015 to commemorate the victims of the camp. It is a half submerged monolithic concrete building containing exhibition halls, an auditorium, research centre and learning labs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Utah Beach Bunker at the North end of Utah Beach, aerial view, in the Dunes of Saint Martin de Vareville, where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 4th Infantry Division landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War, at Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, Cotentin Peninsula, Manche, Normandy, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Rue Aristide Briand, with the house of Raphael Elize (just before the parked car) in Sable-sur-Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France, photograph. Raphael Elize, 1891-1945, was mayor of Sable-sur-Sarthe, was arrested for resisting the occupation and died in Buchenwald. Collection J Distel / Atelier Malicot.
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  • Photograph of the concrete dam built to allow passage from one bank to the other after the destruction of the Grand-Rue bridge at Sable-sur-Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France, in a bombing raid on 7th August 1944 by the German Luftwaffe, during the Second World War. The bridge was bombed in order to slow down the advance of the Allies into the town. Collection G Cherrier. Picture by Manuel Cohen / Further clearances required
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  • Wool tapestry representing Spring, from the series Les Saisons de Lucas, after the artist who is thought to have drawn the original cartoons, Lucas van Leyden, Flemish, 17th century, in the Hotel Lallemant, a mansion built 1495-1518 in French Renaissance style by the Lallemant merchant family, in Bourges, Centre Val de Loire, France. The tapestry shows the agricultural pursuits of the peasants such as gardening and fishing with nets and the leisure pursuits of the nobility in Flanders in the 1530s. After being damaged in WWII, the tapestry was owned by the Nazi Hermann Goering, and was returned to France in 1947 on Liberation, and given to the Bourges museum in 1967. Since 1951 the building has housed the Musee des Arts Decoratifs and it was listed as a historic monument in 1840. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Page, dated 22nd October 1943, with a note to forward information to Rivet (and signed by Rivet), from the file of the Service des Renseignements on the conflict between Paul Rivet and Jacques Soustelle and the subordination of the SR (Paul Rivet was the director of the SRSM or Services de Renseignements et de Securite Militaire) to the DGSS (Soustelle was the head of the Special Services of Free France or DGSS), 1943-44, from the collection of the Service Historique de La Defense, at the Chateau de Vincennes, Vincennes, Paris, France. The collection includes documents of the Vichy government detailing spying activities of the French Secret Services on the German Nazi regime. The Centre Historique des Archives at Vincennes forms part of the SHD, which stores the archives of the Ministry of Defence and its armed forces. It was set up by decree in 2005. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Contents page on p142 of Volume II of a report by the EMA or Ecole Militaire d'Administration and the SR or Service des Renseignements, on the study of the Enigma Machine, a cipher machine using complex coding to protect military communications, dated 1931-42, from the collection of the Service Historique de La Defense, at the Chateau de Vincennes, Vincennes, Paris, France. The collection includes documents of the Vichy government detailing spying activities of the French Secret Services on the German Nazi regime. The Centre Historique des Archives at Vincennes forms part of the SHD, which stores the archives of the Ministry of Defence and its armed forces. It was set up by decree in 2005. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Form dated 22nd May 1945, documenting the detention of Mathilde Carre, 1908-2007, known as La Chatte or Pussy, code name Victoire, a French double agent of the 'Reseau Interallie' during the Second World War, who was detained in London in July 1942, from the collection of the Service Historique de La Defense, at the Chateau de Vincennes, Vincennes, Paris, France. The collection includes documents of the Vichy government detailing spying activities of the French Secret Services on the German Nazi regime. The Centre Historique des Archives at Vincennes forms part of the SHD, which stores the archives of the Ministry of Defence and its armed forces. It was set up by decree in 2005. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Looking up at the octagonal tower studded with stained glass by Marguerite Hure, with spiral staircase, in the Eglise Saint-Joseph or St Joseph's Church, built 1951-58 as a memorial to the 5000 citizens of the town who died during the Second World War, designed by Auguste Perret, 1874-1954, and Raymond Audigier, Le Havre, Normandy, France. The church is built from pre-cast concrete, with geometric stained glass windows, a Neo-Gothic interior and a 107m tall tower which acts as a beacon from out at sea. Perret was mentor to Le Corbusier and specialised in the use of concrete. He led the reconstruction of Le Havre in the 1950s, after the town was completely destroyed in WWII. The centre of Le Havre is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Entrance hall with concrete pillar supporting the structure, allowing the space to be open and flexible, and living room furniture suite by Rene Gabriel, in the Historic Show Flat, on the first floor of an ISAI or Immeubles Sans Affectation Individuelle apartment block, designed from 1946 by Auguste Perret, 1874-1954, who led the reconstruction of Le Havre in the 1950s, after the town was completely destroyed in WWII, Le Havre, Normandy, France. The apartment, of early 1950s design, used all modern conveniences, including internal kitchen and bathroom, contemporary mass produced oak furniture, natural light flowing from front and back, children's study bedroom, central heating and domestic appliances such as vacuum cleaners and refrigerators. Rene Gabriel and Marcel Gascoin designed the furniture in Scandinavian style, which came to typify reconstruction design. The centre of Le Havre is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Flakturm or Flak Tower, an anti-aircraft gun overground blockhouse tower used by the Luftwaffe to defend against Allied air raids during the Second World War, in the Volkspark, Humboldthain, Berlin, Germany. These bunkers were also used as air raid shelters. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, or Denkmal fur die ermordeten Juden Europas, a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold, opened in 2005, Friedrichstadt, Berlin, Germany. The monument consists of 2711 concrete stelae of different heights arranged in a grid over a sloping site and the information centre contains a list of the names of all known Jewish holocaust victims. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Soviet War Memorial or Sowjetisches Ehrenmal, erected 1945 after the Battle of Berlin by the Soviets to commemorate their war dead (the Russian army lost 80,000 soldiers in April and May 1945 in Berlin), in the Grosser Tiergarten Park, Berlin, Germany. The memorial was designed by Mikhail Gorvits and is a large stoa with a massive statue of a Soviet soldier. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Musee Guerre et Paix en Ardennes, or Museum of War and Peace in the Ardennes, opened 2003 and reopened 2018 after refurbishment, commemorating the Franco-Prussian War, First World War and Second World War, in Novion-Porcien, Ardennes, Grand Est, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Musee Guerre et Paix en Ardennes, or Museum of War and Peace in the Ardennes, opened 2003 and reopened 2018 after refurbishment, commemorating the Franco-Prussian War, First World War and Second World War, in Novion-Porcien, Ardennes, Grand Est, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Reconstruction of an anti-aircraft position (DCA) near Berlin, Germany, 1944, WWII, in the Musee Guerre et Paix en Ardennes, or Museum of War and Peace in the Ardennes, opened 2003 and reopened 2018 after refurbishment, commemorating the Franco-Prussian War, First World War and Second World War, in Novion-Porcien, Ardennes, Grand Est, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • War memorial outside the town hall, commemorating villagers who died in WWI and WWII, in Hautvillers in the Champagne vineyard region of Vallee de la Marne, Grand Est, France. The surrounding Champagne hillsides are a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Dwight 'Ike' Eisenhower records the victory speech on 7th May 1945 at 3.30 am in Reims, photograph, in the Musee de la Reddition, or Surrender Museum, a history museum commemorating the Nazi surrender in 1945 ending WWII, opened in 1985, in Reims, Marne, Grand Est, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Act of military surrender of the armies of the Third Reich, signed in Reims on 7th May 1945 at 2.41 am, in the Musee de la Reddition, or Surrender Museum, a history museum commemorating the Nazi surrender in 1945 ending WWII, opened in 1985, in Reims, Marne, Grand Est, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • War Room, with maps plotting the operations of 7th May 1945, in the Musee de la Reddition, or Surrender Museum, a history museum commemorating the Nazi surrender in 1945 ending WWII, opened in 1985, in Reims, Marne, Grand Est, France. In this room, the Allied Forces received the surrender of the Third Reich. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • War Room, with maps plotting the operations of 7th May 1945, in the Musee de la Reddition, or Surrender Museum, a history museum commemorating the Nazi surrender in 1945 ending WWII, opened in 1985, in Reims, Marne, Grand Est, France. In this room, the Allied Forces received the surrender of the Third Reich. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Holocaust Memorial Center for the Jews of Macedonia, museum and multimedia centre commemorating the Holocaust and the history of Balkan Jews, opened 2011, in the Jewish quarter of Skopje, capital city of North Macedonia. 98% of Macedonian Jews were killed during the Holocaust. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tour de la Miotte, an observation tower built 1840 at the Fort de la Miotte, or Fort Kleber, built 1831-35 by Haxo on the Miotte Hill, at Belfort, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The tower was destroyed in the Siege of Belfort in 1870-71 and again in 1940, but rebuilt each time. The fort defends the road to Colmar and forms part of the Belfort fortifications outside the citadel. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Entrance to the Fort de la Miotte, or Fort Kleber, built 1831-35 by Haxo on the Miotte Hill, at Belfort, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The fort defends the road to Colmar and forms part of the Belfort fortifications outside the citadel. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • View from a first floor window of the Fort de la Miotte, or Fort Kleber, built 1831-35 by Haxo on the Miotte Hill, at Belfort, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The fort defends the road to Colmar and forms part of the Belfort fortifications outside the citadel. In the distance is the Tour de la Miotte, an observation tower built 1840. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Inscription 'Pro Patria' (For the Fatherland), commemorating the liberated prisoners of war who rebuilt the tower in 1947, on the base of the Tour de la Miotte, an observation tower built 1840 at the Fort de la Miotte, or Fort Kleber, built 1831-35 by Haxo on the Miotte Hill, at Belfort, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The tower was destroyed in the Siege of Belfort in 1870-71 and again in 1940, but rebuilt each time. The fort defends the road to Colmar and forms part of the Belfort fortifications outside the citadel. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tunnel leading to the Tour de la Miotte, an observation tower built 1840, from the Fort de la Miotte, or Fort Kleber, built 1831-35 by Haxo on the Miotte Hill, at Belfort, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The tower was destroyed in the Siege of Belfort in 1870-71 and again in 1940, but rebuilt each time. The fort defends the road to Colmar and forms part of the Belfort fortifications outside the citadel. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Path leading to the Tour de la Miotte, an observation tower built 1840 at the Fort de la Miotte, or Fort Kleber, built 1831-35 by Haxo on the Miotte Hill, at Belfort, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The tower was destroyed in the Siege of Belfort in 1870-71 and again in 1940, but rebuilt each time. The fort defends the road to Colmar and forms part of the Belfort fortifications outside the citadel. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • American M4A2 Sherman tank called Cornouailles, commemorating the site of the death of Lieutenant Martin while liberating the city of Belfort on 21st November 1944 during the Second World War, at the entrance to the Citadelle de Belfort, at Belfort, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. A castle was built in the 17th century by the Comte de la Suze to protect the Trouee de Belfort or Belfort Gap, and Vauban and Haxo added to the fortifications. In the 19th century the citadel formed part of the Sere de Rivieres system of French border defences. The citadel is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Camp at Le Bacares, where Spanish refugees fleeing Franco's regime were interned, photograph, in the Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, at a military camp built 1938 in Rivesaltes, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. Also known as Camp Marechal Joffre, the camp was originally built as a military base, and became a camp for refugees after the Spanish Civil War, then an internment camp during the Second World War, and eventually a transit camp for Jews, 2000 of whom were transferred to Auschwitz. The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, designed by Rudy Ricciotti, was inaugurated in 2015 to commemorate the victims of the camp. It is a half submerged monolithic concrete building containing exhibition halls, an auditorium, research centre and learning labs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Huts in Rivesaltes camp, photograph by Wilhelm Schiefer, German prisoner of war here until July 1947 and spokesman for the prisoners, in the Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, at a military camp built 1938 in Rivesaltes, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. Photograph property of Archives privees Wilhelm Schiefer. Also known as Camp Marechal Joffre, the camp was originally built as a military base, and became a camp for refugees after the Spanish Civil War, then an internment camp during the Second World War, and eventually a transit camp for Jews, 2000 of whom were transferred to Auschwitz. The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, designed by Rudy Ricciotti, was inaugurated in 2015 to commemorate the victims of the camp. It is a half submerged monolithic concrete building containing exhibition halls, an auditorium, research centre and learning labs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Old barracks and wind turbines at the Camp de Rivesaltes, a military camp built 1938 in Rivesaltes, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. Also known as Camp Marechal Joffre, the camp was originally built as a military base, and became a camp for refugees after the Spanish Civil War, then an internment camp during the Second World War, and eventually a transit camp for Jews, 2000 of whom were transferred to Auschwitz. The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, designed by Rudy Ricciotti, was inaugurated in 2015 to commemorate the victims of the camp. It is a half submerged monolithic concrete building containing exhibition halls, an auditorium, research centre and learning labs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Camp de Rivesaltes Memorial and Museum, at a military camp built 1938 in Rivesaltes, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. Also known as Camp Marechal Joffre, the camp was originally built as a military base, and became a camp for refugees after the Spanish Civil War, then an internment camp during the Second World War, and eventually a transit camp for Jews, 2000 of whom were transferred to Auschwitz. The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, designed by Rudy Ricciotti, was inaugurated in 2015 to commemorate the victims of the camp. It is a half submerged monolithic concrete building containing exhibition halls, an auditorium, research centre and learning labs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Old barracks at the Camp de Rivesaltes, a military camp built 1938 in Rivesaltes, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. Also known as Camp Marechal Joffre, the camp was originally built as a military base, and became a camp for refugees after the Spanish Civil War, then an internment camp during the Second World War, and eventually a transit camp for Jews, 2000 of whom were transferred to Auschwitz. The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, designed by Rudy Ricciotti, was inaugurated in 2015 to commemorate the victims of the camp. It is a half submerged monolithic concrete building containing exhibition halls, an auditorium, research centre and learning labs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Internal courtyard at the Camp de Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, at a military camp built 1938 in Rivesaltes, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. Also known as Camp Marechal Joffre, the camp was originally built as a military base, and became a camp for refugees after the Spanish Civil War, then an internment camp during the Second World War, and eventually a transit camp for Jews, 2000 of whom were transferred to Auschwitz. The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, designed by Rudy Ricciotti, was inaugurated in 2015 to commemorate the victims of the camp. It is a half submerged monolithic concrete building containing exhibition halls, an auditorium, research centre and learning labs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Man reading information panel entitled 'Treize Chibanis Harkis', an exhibition of paintings inspired by harki families from North Africa who fled to France and were interned at Rivesaltes and other camps, in Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, at a military camp built 1938 in Rivesaltes, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. Also known as Camp Marechal Joffre, the camp was originally built as a military base, and became a camp for refugees after the Spanish Civil War, then an internment camp during the Second World War, and eventually a transit camp for Jews, 2000 of whom were transferred to Auschwitz. The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, designed by Rudy Ricciotti, was inaugurated in 2015 to commemorate the victims of the camp. It is a half submerged monolithic concrete building containing exhibition halls, an auditorium, research centre and learning labs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, at a military camp built 1938 in Rivesaltes, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. Also known as Camp Marechal Joffre, the camp was originally built as a military base, and became a camp for refugees after the Spanish Civil War, then an internment camp during the Second World War, and eventually a transit camp for Jews, 2000 of whom were transferred to Auschwitz. The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, designed by Rudy Ricciotti, was inaugurated in 2015 to commemorate the victims of the camp. It is a half submerged monolithic concrete building containing exhibition halls, an auditorium, research centre and learning labs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Photographs and audio recordings of people interned in the camp, in the Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, at a military camp built 1938 in Rivesaltes, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. Also known as Camp Marechal Joffre, the camp was originally built as a military base, and became a camp for refugees after the Spanish Civil War, then an internment camp during the Second World War, and eventually a transit camp for Jews, 2000 of whom were transferred to Auschwitz. The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, designed by Rudy Ricciotti, was inaugurated in 2015 to commemorate the victims of the camp. It is a half submerged monolithic concrete building containing exhibition halls, an auditorium, research centre and learning labs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Photographs and audio recordings of people interned in the camp, in the Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, at a military camp built 1938 in Rivesaltes, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. Also known as Camp Marechal Joffre, the camp was originally built as a military base, and became a camp for refugees after the Spanish Civil War, then an internment camp during the Second World War, and eventually a transit camp for Jews, 2000 of whom were transferred to Auschwitz. The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, designed by Rudy Ricciotti, was inaugurated in 2015 to commemorate the victims of the camp. It is a half submerged monolithic concrete building containing exhibition halls, an auditorium, research centre and learning labs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Photograph of Hitler and audio recordings of people interned in the camp, in the Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, at a military camp built 1938 in Rivesaltes, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. Also known as Camp Marechal Joffre, the camp was originally built as a military base, and became a camp for refugees after the Spanish Civil War, then an internment camp during the Second World War, and eventually a transit camp for Jews, 2000 of whom were transferred to Auschwitz. The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, designed by Rudy Ricciotti, was inaugurated in 2015 to commemorate the victims of the camp. It is a half submerged monolithic concrete building containing exhibition halls, an auditorium, research centre and learning labs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Photograph of Hitler and audio recordings of people interned in the camp, in the Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, at a military camp built 1938 in Rivesaltes, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. Also known as Camp Marechal Joffre, the camp was originally built as a military base, and became a camp for refugees after the Spanish Civil War, then an internment camp during the Second World War, and eventually a transit camp for Jews, 2000 of whom were transferred to Auschwitz. The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, designed by Rudy Ricciotti, was inaugurated in 2015 to commemorate the victims of the camp. It is a half submerged monolithic concrete building containing exhibition halls, an auditorium, research centre and learning labs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, at a military camp built 1938 in Rivesaltes, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. Also known as Camp Marechal Joffre, the camp was originally built as a military base, and became a camp for refugees after the Spanish Civil War, then an internment camp during the Second World War, and eventually a transit camp for Jews, 2000 of whom were transferred to Auschwitz. The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, designed by Rudy Ricciotti, was inaugurated in 2015 to commemorate the victims of the camp. It is a half submerged monolithic concrete building containing exhibition halls, an auditorium, research centre and learning labs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Testimony of Frida Schramm, who was interned in the camp, in the Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, at a military camp built 1938 in Rivesaltes, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. Also known as Camp Marechal Joffre, the camp was originally built as a military base, and became a camp for refugees after the Spanish Civil War, then an internment camp during the Second World War, and eventually a transit camp for Jews, 2000 of whom were transferred to Auschwitz. The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, designed by Rudy Ricciotti, was inaugurated in 2015 to commemorate the victims of the camp. It is a half submerged monolithic concrete building containing exhibition halls, an auditorium, research centre and learning labs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Photographs and audio recordings of people interned in the camp, in the Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, at a military camp built 1938 in Rivesaltes, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. Also known as Camp Marechal Joffre, the camp was originally built as a military base, and became a camp for refugees after the Spanish Civil War, then an internment camp during the Second World War, and eventually a transit camp for Jews, 2000 of whom were transferred to Auschwitz. The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, designed by Rudy Ricciotti, was inaugurated in 2015 to commemorate the victims of the camp. It is a half submerged monolithic concrete building containing exhibition halls, an auditorium, research centre and learning labs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Old barracks, Camp de Rivesaltes, aerial view, a military camp built 1938 in Rivesaltes, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. Also known as Camp Marechal Joffre, the camp was originally built as a military base, and became a camp for refugees after the Spanish Civil War, then an internment camp during the Second World War, and eventually a transit camp for Jews, 2000 of whom were transferred to Auschwitz. The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, designed by Rudy Ricciotti, was inaugurated in 2015 to commemorate the victims of the camp. It is a half submerged monolithic concrete building containing exhibition halls, an auditorium, research centre and learning labs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Camp de Rivesaltes Memorial, aerial view, museum and memorial at a military camp built 1938 in Rivesaltes, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. Also known as Camp Marechal Joffre, the camp was originally built as a military base, and became a camp for refugees after the Spanish Civil War, then an internment camp during the Second World War, and eventually a transit camp for Jews, 2000 of whom were transferred to Auschwitz. The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, designed by Rudy Ricciotti, was inaugurated in 2015 to commemorate the victims of the camp. It is a half submerged monolithic concrete building containing exhibition halls, an auditorium, research centre and learning labs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Camp de Rivesaltes Memorial, aerial view, museum and memorial at a military camp built 1938 in Rivesaltes, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. Also known as Camp Marechal Joffre, the camp was originally built as a military base, and became a camp for refugees after the Spanish Civil War, then an internment camp during the Second World War, and eventually a transit camp for Jews, 2000 of whom were transferred to Auschwitz. The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, designed by Rudy Ricciotti, was inaugurated in 2015 to commemorate the victims of the camp. It is a half submerged monolithic concrete building containing exhibition halls, an auditorium, research centre and learning labs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Camp de Rivesaltes Memorial, aerial view, museum and memorial at a military camp built 1938 in Rivesaltes, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. Also known as Camp Marechal Joffre, the camp was originally built as a military base, and became a camp for refugees after the Spanish Civil War, then an internment camp during the Second World War, and eventually a transit camp for Jews, 2000 of whom were transferred to Auschwitz. The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, designed by Rudy Ricciotti, was inaugurated in 2015 to commemorate the victims of the camp. It is a half submerged monolithic concrete building containing exhibition halls, an auditorium, research centre and learning labs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Camp de Rivesaltes Memorial, aerial view, museum and memorial at a military camp built 1938 in Rivesaltes, Pyrenees-Orientales, France.  Also known as Camp Marechal Joffre, the camp was originally built as a military base, and became a camp for refugees after the Spanish Civil War, then an internment camp during the Second World War, and eventually a transit camp for Jews, 2000 of whom were transferred to Auschwitz. The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, designed by Rudy Ricciotti, was inaugurated in 2015 to commemorate the victims of the camp. It is a half submerged monolithic concrete building containing exhibition halls, an auditorium, research centre and learning labs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Camp de Rivesaltes Memorial, aerial view, museum and memorial at a military camp built 1938 in Rivesaltes, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. Also known as Camp Marechal Joffre, the camp was originally built as a military base, and became a camp for refugees after the Spanish Civil War, then an internment camp during the Second World War, and eventually a transit camp for Jews, 2000 of whom were transferred to Auschwitz. The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, designed by Rudy Ricciotti, was inaugurated in 2015 to commemorate the victims of the camp. It is a half submerged monolithic concrete building containing exhibition halls, an auditorium, research centre and learning labs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Maternite Suisse d'Elne, or Swiss Maternity Hospital, a chateau built 1901-02 for the industrialist Eugene Bardou and used as a maternity hospital by the Swiss Red Cross 1939-44, aerial view, in Elne, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. Eugene Bardou was a grandson of Jean Bardou, of the Job cigarette paper company. The hospital was founded to provide a safe and sanitary place for women of the retirada to give birth, and also helped displaced women during the Second World War. The building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Stained glass window depicting mother and daughter in a garden, in the entrance door of the Maternite Suisse d'Elne, or Swiss Maternity Hospital, a chateau built 1901-02 for the industrialist Eugene Bardou and used as a maternity hospital by the Swiss Red Cross 1939-44, in Elne, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. Eugene Bardou was a grandson of Jean Bardou, of the Job cigarette paper company. The hospital was founded to provide a safe and sanitary place for women of the retirada to give birth, and also helped displaced women during the Second World War. The building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Maternite Suisse d'Elne, or Swiss Maternity Hospital, a chateau built 1901-02 for the industrialist Eugene Bardou and used as a maternity hospital by the Swiss Red Cross 1939-44, in Elne, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. Eugene Bardou was a grandson of Jean Bardou, of the Job cigarette paper company. The hospital was founded to provide a safe and sanitary place for women of the retirada to give birth, and also helped displaced women during the Second World War. The building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Maternite Suisse d'Elne, or Swiss Maternity Hospital, a chateau built 1901-02 for the industrialist Eugene Bardou and used as a maternity hospital by the Swiss Red Cross 1939-44, in Elne, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. Eugene Bardou was a grandson of Jean Bardou, of the Job cigarette paper company. The hospital was founded to provide a safe and sanitary place for women of the retirada to give birth, and also helped displaced women during the Second World War. The building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Giardino dei Giusti, or Garden of the Righteous, a public garden designed by Mario Li Castri and Giuseppe Prestigiacomo on the Via Alloro, dedicated to the righteous Sicilians who saved Jews during the Holocaust, in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The garden opened in 2000 and is on the site of a ruined 18th century palace, the Palazzo Graco. Palermo was founded in 734 BC by the Phoenicians, and was settled by the Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs and Normans. Its Arab and Norman centre is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Plaque commemorating Jewish children from the 17th arrondissement deported to concentration camps by the Nazis and Vichy government, in the Parc Clichy-Batignolles - Martin Luther-King, a new development of parkland and buildings developed since 2007 and set to cover 10 hectares in size, in the Batignolles area of the 17th arrondissement of Paris, France. The area has been developed from a large railway freight yard district and is a sustainable development with green space, many natural ecosystems and renewable energy sources. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Les Braves War Memorial, commemorating American soldiers killed on 6th June 1944, 2004, by Anilore Banon, on Omaha Beach, between Port-en-Bessin and the Vire river, Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Manche, Normandy, France. The sculpture represents the Wings of Hope, Rise to Freedom, and Wings Of Fraternity. It was commissioned by the French government to commemorate the 60th anniversary of D-Day. Omaha Beach is where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 29th and 1st Infantry Divisions landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Les Braves War Memorial, commemorating American soldiers killed on 6th June 1944, 2004, by Anilore Banon, on Omaha Beach, between Port-en-Bessin and the Vire river, Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Manche, Normandy, France. The sculpture represents the Wings of Hope, Rise to Freedom, and Wings Of Fraternity. It was commissioned by the French government to commemorate the 60th anniversary of D-Day. Omaha Beach is where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 29th and 1st Infantry Divisions landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tank and monument at Koufra Beach, marking the starting point of the Way of the 2nd Armoured Division, inaugurated July 25th 2004 at the site of the landing of the Leclerc Division on French soil on August 1st, 1944, at Utah Beach, Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, Cotentin Peninsula, Manche, Normandy, France. This forms part of the Liberty Road, or Voie de la Liberte, linking Utah beach to Sainte-Mere l'Eglise and then to Bastogne in Belgium, celebrating the Liberation of France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bunker, with entrance and ladder rungs to roof, at the North end of Utah Beach in the Dunes of Saint Martin de Vareville, where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 4th Infantry Division landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War, at Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, Cotentin Peninsula, Manche, Normandy, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bunker at the North end of Utah Beach in the Dunes of Saint Martin de Vareville, where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 4th Infantry Division landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War, at Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, Cotentin Peninsula, Manche, Normandy, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bunker at the North end of Utah Beach in the Dunes of Saint Martin de Vareville, where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 4th Infantry Division landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War, at Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, Cotentin Peninsula, Manche, Normandy, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bunker at the North end of Utah Beach in the Dunes of Saint Martin de Vareville, where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 4th Infantry Division landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War, at Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, Cotentin Peninsula, Manche, Normandy, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bunker at the North end of Utah Beach in the Dunes of Saint Martin de Vareville, where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 4th Infantry Division landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War, at Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, Cotentin Peninsula, Manche, Normandy, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • 90th Infantry Division Monument, dedicated in 1969 then again in 1987 after its renovation, at Utah Beach, Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, Cotentin Peninsula, Manche, Normandy, France. The monument is made from granite from Flossenburg German concentration camp in Bavaria, liberated by the Division near the end of the war. Utah Beach in the Dunes of Saint Martin de Vareville, is where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 4th Infantry Division landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • US Navy Monument, detail, featuring leadership, combat units and sailors, and the names of the Operation Overlord ships, by Steven Spears, inaugurated 2008, at Utah Beach, Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, Cotentin Peninsula, Manche, Normandy, France. Utah Beach in the Dunes of Saint Martin de Vareville, is where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 4th Infantry Division landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statue of Andrew Jackson Higgins, 1886-1952, who designed the Higgins boat, of which 1089 were used in D-Day, part of the Higgins Boat Monument, inaugurated 2015, at Utah Beach, Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, Cotentin Peninsula, Manche, Normandy, France. The monument is next to the Utah Beach Museum. Utah Beach in the Dunes of Saint Martin de Vareville, is where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 4th Infantry Division landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Higgins Boat Monument, with a life-sized replica of a LCVP or Higgins boat made of steel and set in sand as if beached, and sculptures by Fred Hoppe of soldiers running (1 from each of the 3 wars in which Higgins Boats served, World War II, Korean, and Vietnam Wars), inaugurated 2015, at Utah Beach, Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, Cotentin Peninsula, Manche, Normandy, France. The monument also features a statue of Andrew Jackson Higgins, 1886-1952, who designed the boat, of which 1089 were used in D-Day. The monument is next to the Utah Beach Museum. Utah Beach in the Dunes of Saint Martin de Vareville, is where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 4th Infantry Division landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Higgins Boat Monument, with a life-sized replica of a LCVP or Higgins boat made of steel and set in sand as if beached, and sculptures by Fred Hoppe of soldiers running (1 from each of the 3 wars in which Higgins Boats served, World War II, Korean, and Vietnam Wars), inaugurated 2015, at Utah Beach, Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, Cotentin Peninsula, Manche, Normandy, France. The monument also features a statue of Andrew Jackson Higgins, 1886-1952, who designed the boat, of which 1089 were used in D-Day. The monument is next to the Utah Beach Museum. Utah Beach in the Dunes of Saint Martin de Vareville, is where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 4th Infantry Division landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Higgins Boat Monument, with a life-sized replica of a LCVP or Higgins boat made of steel and set in sand as if beached, and sculptures by Fred Hoppe of soldiers running (1 from each of the 3 wars in which Higgins Boats served, World War II, Korean, and Vietnam Wars), inaugurated 2015, at Utah Beach, Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, Cotentin Peninsula, Manche, Normandy, France. The monument also features a statue of Andrew Jackson Higgins, 1886-1952, who designed the boat, of which 1089 were used in D-Day. The monument is next to the Utah Beach Museum. Utah Beach in the Dunes of Saint Martin de Vareville, is where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 4th Infantry Division landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Submachine gun on a boat used in the landings, at Utah Beach, Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, Cotentin Peninsula, Manche, Normandy, France. Utah Beach in the Dunes of Saint Martin de Vareville, is where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 4th Infantry Division landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Higgins Boat Monument, with a life-sized replica of a LCVP or Higgins boat made of steel and set in sand as if beached, and sculptures by Fred Hoppe of soldiers running (1 from each of the 3 wars in which Higgins Boats served, World War II, Korean, and Vietnam Wars), inaugurated 2015, at Utah Beach, Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, Cotentin Peninsula, Manche, Normandy, France. The monument also features a statue of Andrew Jackson Higgins, 1886-1952, who designed the boat, of which 1089 were used in D-Day. The monument is next to the Utah Beach Museum. Utah Beach in the Dunes of Saint Martin de Vareville, is where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 4th Infantry Division landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bunker used by the US Naval Operational Intelligence Centre after it was taken from the Germans on 6th June, from 8th June until 31st October 1944, at Utah Beach, Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, Cotentin Peninsula, Manche, Normandy, France. The 41 men working here led to the success of the landings of 836 000 men, 220 000 vehicles and 725 000 tons of equipment. Utah Beach in the Dunes of Saint Martin de Vareville, is where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 4th Infantry Division landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Higgins Boat Monument, with a life-sized replica of a LCVP or Higgins boat made of steel and set in sand as if beached, and sculptures by Fred Hoppe of soldiers running (1 from each of the 3 wars in which Higgins Boats served, World War II, Korean, and Vietnam Wars), inaugurated 2015, at Utah Beach, Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, Cotentin Peninsula, Manche, Normandy, France. The monument also features a statue of Andrew Jackson Higgins, 1886-1952, who designed the boat, of which 1089 were used in D-Day. The monument is next to the Utah Beach Museum. Utah Beach in the Dunes of Saint Martin de Vareville, is where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 4th Infantry Division landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sign in the bunker used by the US Naval Operational Intelligence Centre after it was taken from the Germans on 6th June, from 8th June until 31st October 1944, at Utah Beach, Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, Cotentin Peninsula, Manche, Normandy, France. The 41 men working here led to the success of the landings of 836 000 men, 220 000 vehicles and 725 000 tons of equipment. Utah Beach in the Dunes of Saint Martin de Vareville, is where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 4th Infantry Division landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Higgins Boat Monument, with a life-sized replica of a LCVP or Higgins boat made of steel and set in sand as if beached, and sculptures by Fred Hoppe of soldiers running (1 from each of the 3 wars in which Higgins Boats served, World War II, Korean, and Vietnam Wars), inaugurated 2015, at Utah Beach, Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, Cotentin Peninsula, Manche, Normandy, France. The monument also features a statue of Andrew Jackson Higgins, 1886-1952, who designed the boat, of which 1089 were used in D-Day. The monument is next to the Utah Beach Museum. Utah Beach in the Dunes of Saint Martin de Vareville, is where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 4th Infantry Division landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Omaha Beach, aerial view, between Port-en-Bessin and the Vire river, Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Manche, Normandy, France. On the right is the Les Braves War Memorial, commemorating American soldiers killed on 6th June 1944, 2004, by Anilore Banon. The sculpture represents the Wings of Hope, Rise to Freedom, and Wings Of Fraternity. It was commissioned by the French government to commemorate the 60th anniversary of D-Day. Omaha Beach is where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 29th and 1st Infantry Divisions landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Omaha Beach, between Port-en-Bessin and the Vire river, Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Manche, Normandy, France, aerial view of the waves lapping the orange sand. Omaha Beach is where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 29th and 1st Infantry Divisions landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Omaha Beach, aerial view, between Port-en-Bessin and the Vire river, Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Manche, Normandy, France. In the centre is the Les Braves War Memorial, commemorating American soldiers killed on 6th June 1944, 2004, by Anilore Banon. The sculpture represents the Wings of Hope, Rise to Freedom, and Wings Of Fraternity. It was commissioned by the French government to commemorate the 60th anniversary of D-Day. Omaha Beach is where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 29th and 1st Infantry Divisions landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Omaha Beach, aerial view, between Port-en-Bessin and the Vire river, Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Manche, Normandy, France. At the bottom is the Les Braves War Memorial, commemorating American soldiers killed on 6th June 1944, 2004, by Anilore Banon. The sculpture represents the Wings of Hope, Rise to Freedom, and Wings Of Fraternity. It was commissioned by the French government to commemorate the 60th anniversary of D-Day. Omaha Beach is where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 29th and 1st Infantry Divisions landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Utah Beach Bunker at the North end of Utah Beach, aerial view, in the Dunes of Saint Martin de Vareville, where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 4th Infantry Division landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War, at Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, Cotentin Peninsula, Manche, Normandy, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Utah Beach Bunker at the North end of Utah Beach, aerial view, in the Dunes of Saint Martin de Vareville, where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 4th Infantry Division landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War, at Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, Cotentin Peninsula, Manche, Normandy, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Utah Beach Bunker at the North end of Utah Beach, aerial view, in the Dunes of Saint Martin de Vareville, where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 4th Infantry Division landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War, at Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, Cotentin Peninsula, Manche, Normandy, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Front cover of issue no. 565 of Historia, a monthly history magazine, published January 1994, featuring articles on the feud between Louis XI and Charles le Temeraire, and the plot against De Gaulle in 1942. Historia was created by Jules Tallandier and published 1909-37 and again from 1945. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Front cover of issue no. 30 of Lisez-Moi Historia, a monthly history magazine, published May 1949, featuring an article on the end of Hitler by A Francois-Poncet, with a painting of Marie Antoinette and her children by Vigee Le Brun on the cover. Historia was created by Jules Tallandier and published 1909-37 and again from 1945. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Front cover of issue no. 75 of Lisez-Moi Historia, a monthly history magazine, published February 1953, featuring an article on the Battle of Monte Cassino in 1944 during the Second World War, with the portrait of Madame Recamier by Antoine Gros on the cover. Historia was created by Jules Tallandier and published 1909-37 and again from 1945. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Front cover of issue no. 90 of Lisez-Moi Historia, a monthly history magazine, published May 1954, featuring an article on the Battle of Monte Cassino in 1944 during the Second World War, with a detail from The Moneylender and His Wife, by Quentin Massys, 1514. Historia was created by Jules Tallandier and published 1909-37 and again from 1945. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Front cover of issue no. 280 of Historia, a monthly history magazine, published March 1970, featuring an article on the bombing of Tokyo on 9th March 1945. Historia was created by Jules Tallandier and published 1909-37 and again from 1945. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Stained glass window, 1991-6, designed by artist Francois Rouan, and made by master glassmaker Benoit Marcq, in the Gothic nave of Nevers Cathedral, or Cathedral of Saint Cyricus and Saint Julitta of Nevers, Nevers, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The fractured shapes in this window refer to the Allied bombing of the cathedral in 1944 during the Second World War. The project to commission contemporary stained glass windows in the cathedral was begun 1987-88 under Dominique Bozo, and they were inaugurated on 29th April 2011. The building is listed as a national monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Preparations for a Christmas feast in 1943 at the munitions warehouse run by the Luftwaffe in Malpaire, during the German occupation of France in the Second World War, near Sable-sur-Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France. Collection J Distel / Atelier Malicot.
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  • Train station after it was bombed on 6th June  1944, during the Second World War, in Sable-sur-Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France, photograph. Collection G Cherrier. Picture by Manuel Cohen / Further clearances required
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  • Bridge in the St Nicolas district of Sable-sur-Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France, photograph. Collection J Distel / Atelier Malicot.
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  • German military parade on the Place du Marechal Petain, (now the Place de la Mairie), during the German occupation of France in Second World War, photograph, in Sable-sur-Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France. Collection G Cherrier. Picture by Manuel Cohen / Further clearances required
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  • Photograph of the Grand-Rue bridge at Sable-sur-Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France, destroyed in a bombing raid on 7th August 1944 by the German Luftwaffe, during the Second World War. The bridge was bombed in order to slow down the advance of the Allies into the town. Collection G Cherrier. Picture by Manuel Cohen / Further clearances required
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  • The Place de la Mairie, then known as the Place du Marechal Petain, photograph, c. 1942, during the German occupation of France in the Second World War, in Sable-sur-Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France. Collection G Cherrier. Picture by Manuel Cohen / Further clearances required
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  • Photograph of the arrival of the Americans on 8th August 1944, during the Second World War, in Sable-sur-Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France. Collection G Cherrier. Picture by Manuel Cohen / Further clearances required
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  • Photograph of the Grand-Rue bridge at Sable-sur-Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France, destroyed in a bombing raid on 7th August 1944 by the German Luftwaffe, during the Second World War. The bridge was bombed in order to slow down the advance of the Allies into the town. Collection G Cherrier. Picture by Manuel Cohen / Further clearances required
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  • Detail from Le Journal de Sable, a weekly newspaper, with an article on black market activities in the area, published during the German occupation of France during the Second World War, in Sable-sur-Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France. The Journal de Sable praises the institutions and social systems of Germany in a wildly enthusiastic style. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Article from Le Journal de Sable, a weekly newspaper, 24th April 1943, celebrating the 87th birthday of Marechal Petain, published during the German occupation of France during the Second World War, in Sable-sur-Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France. The Journal de Sable praises the institutions and social systems of Germany in a wildly enthusiastic style. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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