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Westwall Museum

This museum in the small German city offers a unique glimpse into World War II history.

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The Westwall Museum in Bad Bergzabern, Germany takes visitors back in time. The museum preserves a fortified border from World War II. Bunkers, tunnels, and armored defenses remain frozen in their original state along Germany’s storied Westwall, also known as the Siegfried Line.

At the outskirts of the peaceful city of Bad Bergzabern, this museum preserves the concrete monoliths once intended to halt invading forces, documenting the history of the Siegfried Line and showing a number of original artifacts of the bunkers and the soldiers that lived inside them.

One of the bunkers is fully equipped as it looked in WWII and houses an original 105mm field artillery piece. Exploring this eerie yet fascinating relic of wartime engineering offers a powerful reminder of the fear the Nazi regime once spread across Europe.

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Kurfürstenstraße 21
Bad Bergzabern, 76887
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49.107917, 8.005699
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