World War II in France

Under the streets of La Rochelle, a former wartime bunker holds some surprising secrets.

This tank participated in the liberation of Dijon from Nazi occupation.

Deep in the limestone cliffs of the Alabaster Coast, a German fortress built during World War II.

Inaugurated in 1921, this is one of many statues in France dedicated to the people who died during World War I for their country.

Today this former Nazi concentration camp stands as a poignant memorial to the victims of fascism, and a warning from history.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

A reconstruction of a classic mansion on the island of Delos was designed for a historian and archaeologist.

This bunker in northern France was built by Nazi German forces with the intention of launching up to 50 V2 rockets at London each day.

These unique markers designate the route American forces took during the Liberation of France.

This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.

Abandoned blockhouses from Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall erode into the sea on a French beach.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.

Bloodstains can still be seen in this medieval church where two medics saved lives on D-Day.

A Christian retreat founded to welcome refugees fleeing from the Nazis during World War II.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.