Battlefield sites

Footsteps of WWII: all 160 sites

The whole Second World War in Europe, from the first shots at Westerplatte on 1 September 1939 to the German surrender in May 1945: Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, Normandy, Arnhem, Bastogne, Stalingrad, Berlin and the camps, in 15 areas from Britain to Russia.

Britain

• Dover Castle Secret Wartime TunnelsHeadquarters · 26 May – 4 Jun 1940
• Bentley Priory Museum, StanmoreHeadquarters · Jul 1936 – 1945 (Battle of Britain Jul–Oct 1940)
• Battle of Britain Memorial, Capel-le-FerneMemorial · Jul–Oct 1940 (memorial unveiled 9 Jul 1993)
• RAF Manston Spitfire & Hurricane Memorial MuseumMuseum · Aug 1940; May 1943
• Biggin Hill Memorial MuseumMuseum · Aug 1940 – Jan 1941
• Imperial War Museum LondonMuseum · 1939–1945
• Churchill War Rooms, LondonHeadquarters · 27 Aug 1939 – 16 Aug 1945
• Battle of Britain Bunker, UxbridgeHeadquarters · Jul–Oct 1940
• IWM DuxfordAirfield · Aug 1938 – 1945 (Battle of Britain Jul–Oct 1940)
• Coventry Cathedral ruinsRuins · 14–15 Nov 1940
• St Paul's Cathedral and the Blitz, LondonMemorial · Sep 1940 – Apr 1941
• Western Approaches HQ, LiverpoolHeadquarters · Feb 1941 – 1945
• Bletchley ParkCodebreaking · 15 Aug 1939 – 1945
• The D-Day Story, PortsmouthMuseum · Jun 1944

Dunkirk & the Channel coast

• Dunkirk 1940 Museum (Bastion 32)Museum · 26 May–4 Jun 1940
• Malo-les-Bains evacuation beach, DunkirkLanding beach · 27 May–4 Jun 1940
• East Mole (Jetée de l'Est), DunkirkNaval base · 27 May–4 Jun 1940
• La Plaine au Bois massacre memorial, Esquelbecq (Wormhout)Memorial · 28 May 1940
• Zuydcoote and Bray-Dunes beach wrecksLanding beach · 29–30 May 1940
• Fort des Dunes, LeffrinckouckeFortification · 2–3 Jun 1940; 6 Sep 1944
• Dunkirk Memorial and Town Cemetery (CWGC)Cemetery · 1939–1940 (unveiled 29 Jun 1957)
• Blockhaus d'ÉperlecquesBunker · Mar 1943–Jul 1944
• La Coupole V-2 site, HelfautBunker · Oct 1943–Sep 1944
• Batterie Todt (Atlantic Wall Museum), AudinghenFortification · 1942–29 Sep 1944

Normandy

• Pegasus Bridge and Memorial PegasusBridge · 6 Jun 1944
• Merville BatteryFortification · 6 Jun 1944
• Juno Beach Centre, Courseulles-sur-MerMuseum · 6 Jun 1944
• Longues-sur-Mer batteryFortification · 6–7 Jun 1944
• Omaha Beach: Les Braves, Saint-Laurent-sur-MerLanding beach · 6 Jun 1944
• Overlord Museum, Colleville-sur-MerMuseum · Jun–Aug 1944
• Pointe du HocFortification · 6–8 Jun 1944
• Sainte-Mère-Église and the Airborne MuseumTown · 6 Jun 1944
• Utah Beach Museum, Sainte-Marie-du-MontMuseum · 6 Jun 1944
• Museum of the Battle of Normandy, BayeuxMuseum · Jun–Aug 1944
• Bayeux War Cemetery and MemorialCemetery · 1944–1952
• Arromanches: Mulberry harbour and D-Day MuseumMuseum · Jun 1944 – early 1945
• Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-MerCemetery · 1944–1956
• Sword Beach and the Grand Bunker, OuistrehamBunker · 6–9 Jun 1944
• La Cambe German war cemeteryCemetery · Jun 1944 – 1961
• Caen Memorial (Mémorial de Caen)Museum · Jun–Jul 1944
• Hill 112, Esquay-Notre-DameBattlefield · Jun–Aug 1944
• Memorial of Civilians in Wartime, FalaiseMuseum · 1939–1945 (Falaise: Jun–Aug 1944)
• Montormel Memorial, Falaise PocketMemorial · 19–21 Aug 1944

Western France

• Keroman submarine base, LorientNaval base · Jul 1940–8 May 1945
• Saint-Nazaire: U-boat base and Normandie dockNaval base · 28 Mar 1942
• Oradour-sur-Glane: ruined village and Centre de la mémoireRuins · 10 Jun 1944
• Brest: the U-boat base and the Naval MuseumMuseum · 1941–19 Sep 1944

Paris, Champagne & Alsace

• Sedan: the Meuse crossing, May 1940Battlefield · 12–15 May 1940
• Fort de Schoenenbourg (Maginot Line)Fortification · 19 Jun–1 Jul 1940
• Glade of the Armistice, CompiègneMemorial · 22 Jun 1940
• Mémorial de la Shoah, ParisMemorial · 1942–1944
• Mont-Valérien memorial, SuresnesMemorial · 1941–1944
• Musée de la Libération de Paris – Leclerc – Jean MoulinMuseum · 19–25 Aug 1944
• Natzweiler-StruthofCamp memorial · May 1941–Nov 1944
• Reims Surrender Museum (Musée de la Reddition)Headquarters · 7 May 1945

Belgium & Luxembourg

• Fort Eben-EmaelFortification · 10–11 May 1940
• Henri-Chapelle American CemeteryCemetery · Opened 28 Sep 1944; dedicated 1960
• Bastogne War MuseumMuseum · Dec 1944 – Jan 1945
• Baugnez: Malmedy massacre memorialMemorial · 17 Dec 1944
• St VithTown · 16–21 Dec 1944; retaken 23 Jan 1945
• Bastogne Barracks (McAuliffe's HQ)Headquarters · 19–26 Dec 1944
• December 44 Historical Museum, La GleizeMuseum · 19–24 Dec 1944
• Mardasson Memorial, BastogneMemorial · Dec 1944 – Jan 1945; inaugurated 16 Jul 1950
• Luxembourg American Cemetery, HammCemetery · Opened 29 Dec 1944; dedicated 1960
• Bois Jacques foxholes, FoyBattlefield · Dec 1944 – 13 Jan 1945
• Houffalize and its Panther tankMemorial · 19 Dec 1944 – 16 Jan 1945
• National Museum of Military History, DiekirchMuseum · Dec 1944 – Jan 1945; Sauer crossing 18 Jan 1945
• Recogne German war cemeteryCemetery · Opened 4 Feb 1945

The Netherlands

• Grebbeberg battlefield and military cemeteryCemetery · 11–13 May 1940
• Rotterdam 1940: 'The Destroyed City' monumentMemorial · 14 May 1940
• Anne Frank House, AmsterdamMuseum · 6 Jul 1942 – 4 Aug 1944
• Camp Westerbork Memorial CentreCamp memorial · Jul 1942 – Apr 1945
• John Frost Bridge, ArnhemBridge · 17–21 Sep 1944
• Freedom Museum (Vrijheidsmuseum), GroesbeekMuseum · Sep 1944 – Feb 1945
• Ginkel Heath drop zone, EdeBattlefield · 17–18 Sep 1944
• Airborne Museum Hartenstein, OosterbeekMuseum · 17–26 Sep 1944
• Waal crossing memorial (De Oversteek), NijmegenMemorial · 20 Sep 1944
• Old Church and Kate ter Horst house, OosterbeekBattlefield · 19–25 Sep 1944
• Arnhem Oosterbeek War CemeteryCemetery · Sep 1944
• Overloon War MuseumMuseum · 30 Sep – 18 Oct 1944
• Netherlands American Cemetery, MargratenCemetery · 1944–1945
• Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery and MemorialCemetery · Feb–Mar 1945

Western & southern Germany

• NS-Documentation Centre, MunichMuseum · 1919–1945
• Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial SiteCamp memorial · 22 Mar 1933 – 29 Apr 1945
• Nazi Party Rally Grounds & Documentation CentreMuseum · 1933–1938
• Museum Hürtgenwald 1944, VossenackMuseum · 19 Sep – 16 Dec 1944
• Remagen bridge and Peace MuseumBridge · 7–17 Mar 1945
• Obersalzberg Documentation CentreMuseum · 1928–1945
• Kehlsteinhaus (Eagle's Nest)Headquarters · 1937–1945
• Memorium Nuremberg Trials (Courtroom 600)Headquarters · 20 Nov 1945 – 1 Oct 1946

Berlin & eastern Germany

• Topography of Terror, BerlinHeadquarters · 1933–1945
• House of the Wannsee ConferenceMemorial · 20 Jan 1942
• Memorial to the Murdered Jews of EuropeMemorial · 1941–1945 (opened 2005)
• St Nikolai Memorial, HamburgRuins · 24 Jul–3 Aug 1943
• Peenemünde Historical-Technical MuseumMuseum · 1937–May 1945
• German Resistance Memorial (Bendlerblock)Memorial · 20–21 Jul 1944
• Dresden Frauenkirche and the 1945 bombingMemorial · 13–15 Feb 1945
• Bundeswehr Military History Museum, DresdenMuseum · 13 Feb 1945 (museum reopened Oct 2011)
• Buchenwald Memorial, near WeimarCamp memorial · Jul 1937–11 Apr 1945
• Bergen-Belsen MemorialCamp memorial · 1940–15 Apr 1945
• Seelow Heights MemorialBattlefield · 16–19 Apr 1945
• Colditz CastleFortification · 1940–16 Apr 1945
• Sachsenhausen Memorial and MuseumCamp memorial · Jul 1936–22 Apr 1945
• Torgau: the Elbe Day meetingBridge · 25 Apr 1945
• Reichstag, BerlinBattlefield · 28 Apr–2 May 1945
• Site of the FührerbunkerBunker · 16 Jan–2 May 1945
• Ravensbrück MemorialCamp memorial · May 1939–30 Apr 1945
• Museum Berlin-KarlshorstMuseum · 8–9 May 1945
• Cecilienhof: the Potsdam ConferenceHeadquarters · 17 Jul–2 Aug 1945
• Soviet War Memorial, TiergartenMemorial · Apr–May 1945 (unveiled 11 Nov 1945)
• Soviet War Memorial, Treptower ParkCemetery · Apr–May 1945 (opened 8 May 1949)

Poland

• Westerplatte, GdańskBattlefield · 1–7 Sep 1939
• Polish Post Office, GdańskMuseum · 1 Sep 1939
• Museum of the Second World War, GdańskMuseum · 1939–1945 (opened 23 Mar 2017)
• Stutthof Museum, SztutowoCamp memorial · 2 Sep 1939 – 9 May 1945
• Oskar Schindler's Enamel Factory, KrakówMuseum · Nov 1939 – Oct 1944
• Auschwitz I (main camp), OświęcimCamp memorial · Jun 1940 – 27 Jan 1945
• Bełżec Museum and memorialCamp memorial · 17 Mar 1942 – Jun 1943
• Umschlagplatz memorial, WarsawMemorial · 22 Jul – 21 Sep 1942
• Treblinka Museum and memorialCamp memorial · 23 Jul 1942 – Oct 1943
• Ghetto Heroes Monument and POLIN Museum, WarsawMemorial · 19 Apr – 16 May 1943
• Sobibór Museum and memorialCamp memorial · May 1942 – Oct 1943; revolt 14 Oct 1943
• State Museum at Majdanek, LublinCamp memorial · Oct 1941 – Jul 1944; 'Harvest Festival' 3 Nov 1943
• Auschwitz II-BirkenauCamp memorial · Oct 1941 – 27 Jan 1945
• Wolf's Lair, Gierłoż near KętrzynHeadquarters · Jun 1941 – Jan 1945; bomb plot 20 Jul 1944
• Warsaw Rising MuseumMuseum · 1 Aug – 2 Oct 1944

Czechia & Austria

• Mauthausen MemorialCamp memorial · 8 Aug 1938 – 5 May 1945
• Gusen MemorialCamp memorial · 25 May 1940 – 5 May 1945
• Terezín MemorialCamp memorial · Jun 1940 – May 1945
• Operation Anthropoid Memorial, Prague-LibeňMemorial · 27 May 1942
• Lidice MemorialMemorial · 10 Jun 1942
• National Memorial to the Heroes of the Heydrich TerrorMemorial · 18 Jun 1942

Italy

• Museum of the Liberation of Rome (Via Tasso)Museum · Sep 1943 – Jun 1944
• Anzio Beachhead Museum (Museo dello Sbarco)Museum · 22 Jan – 23 May 1944
• Sicily-Rome American Cemetery, NettunoCemetery · Jul 1943 – Jun 1944
• Abbey of Monte CassinoBattlefield · Jan–May 1944 (bombed 15 Feb 1944)
• Fosse Ardeatine Mausoleum, RomeMemorial · 24 Mar 1944
• Cassino War Cemetery and Memorial (CWGC)Cemetery · Jan–May 1944
• Polish War Cemetery, Monte CassinoCemetery · 11–18 May 1944
• German War Cemetery, Cassino (Caira)Cemetery · 1943–1944 (opened 4 May 1965)

Malta & Crete

• Maleme German War Cemetery and Hill 107, CreteCemetery · 20–22 May 1941
• Galatas, Crete: the battle for the villageBattlefield · 20–25 May 1941
• Souda Bay War Cemetery, CreteCemetery · 20 May – 1 Jun 1941
• Malta at War Museum, BirguMuseum · 1940–1942
• National War Museum, Fort St Elmo, VallettaMuseum · 11 Jun 1940 – 20 Nov 1942
• Lascaris War Rooms, VallettaHeadquarters · 1940–1943 (Husky HQ Jul 1943)

Norway

• Narvik War Museum (Narviksenteret)Museum · 9 Apr – 8 Jun 1940
• Norway's Resistance Museum, Akershus FortressMuseum · Apr 1940 – May 1945
• Vemork: Norwegian Industrial Workers MuseumRuins · Nov 1942 – Feb 1943

Russia & Belarus

• Brest Fortress, Belarus (June 1941)Fortification · 22 Jun – Jul 1941
• Museum of the Defence and Siege of LeningradMuseum · Sep 1941 – Jan 1944 (museum from 1944)
• Victory Museum, Poklonnaya Hill, MoscowMuseum · 1941–1945 (museum opened 9 May 1995)
• Piskaryovskoye Cemetery, St PetersburgCemetery · Sep 1941 – Jan 1944 (memorial opened 9 May 1960)
• Mamayev Kurgan and 'The Motherland Calls'Memorial · Sep 1942 – Jan 1943
• Panorama Museum & Gerhardt's Mill, VolgogradMuseum · Sep 1942 – Jan 1943
• Pavlov's House, VolgogradTown · Sep – 25 Nov 1942
• Rossoshka war cemeteriesCemetery · Nov 1942 – Feb 1943 (cemeteries 1997 and 1999)
• Khatyn Memorial, BelarusMemorial · 22 Mar 1943 (memorial 1969)
• Kursk Arc memorial complex, KurskMemorial · 5 Jul – 23 Aug 1943 (memorial 1998–2000)
• Prokhorovka battlefield, Belgorod regionBattlefield · 12 Jul 1943