World War II in Germany

A mammoth WWII anti-air defense tower has been repurposed as a hotel with a rooftop garden.

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

Former Gestapo prison turned memorial museum.

One of the few German synagogues to survive the Kristallnacht pogrom has been beautifully restored.

Somber memorial to the May 10, 1933, book-burning which took place on this spot.

A helicopter memorial commemorating what was once the only way to access this West Berlin exclave.

The home of president Truman during the Potsdam Conference, and the place from which the atomic bomb strike on Japan was triggered.

A memorial commemorating the place where Truman gave the order to deploy the first nuclear bombs on Japan.

This elaborate stone bridge over the Neisse river has sat in pieces since 1945.

This "Atomic Egg" appears on the city of Garching's coat of arms.

After this historic church was destroyed by World War II bombing, its blackened shell was left standing as a monument.

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.

Revitalization efforts converted a former U.S. military heliport into a sprawling urban park.

A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.

Art installations, derelict railcars, and endangered grasshoppers all call this south Berlin park home.

An ornate sculpture of an ox in repose marks the former entrance to Nuremberg's medieval meat market, which was destroyed during World War II.