The ancient town of Ypres, once the centre of the medieval wool trade, was completely destroyed during the First World War (1914 to 1918) when it was used as a supply depot for the British forces fighting in the trenches just to the east.
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The Franco Prussian war of 1870 was one of the pivotal European events of the second half of the 19th century . It resulted in the creation of a new country, Germany , a weakening of France and the overthrow of its Government and the rise of a dominate new European statesman, Prussia’s Count Otto Von Bismarck.
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Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until his suicide 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer in 1934.
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The small and quiet town of Malbork would have probably never made it on a traveller’s must see map if it wasn’t for the gigantic brick Gothic fortress it its midst (a UNESCO World Heritage Site).
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Wolf’s Lair is at once fascinating, depressing and eerie, as it serves as a window into the surroundings of the person who masterminded Europe’s darkest years. It is symbolic for all that contemporary Poland would prefer to leave behind, but at the same time, opening the site up to the world shows that Poland has most definitely moved on.
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