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  • Vietnam,  Cu Chi tunnels, one of the most famous battlegrounds of the Vietnam War. Today it is one of the country's prime tourist attractions, part of a new industry of war tourism. Sometimes, these spots seem to be memorials to wartime propaganda as much to the war itself. in their new struggle for foreign currency, the Vietnamese are exploiting their harsh history, offering visits to long-forgotten places that were once considered vital to America's national interests. Most of the visitors here are foreigners; the Vietnamese who come are mostly schoolchildren with their teachers. Cu Chi tunnels, one of the most famous battlegrounds of the Vietnam War. Today it is one of the country's prime tourist attractions, part of a new industry of war tourism. Sometimes, these spots seem to be memorials to wartime propaganda as much to the war itself. in their new struggle for foreign currency, the Vietnamese are exploiting their harsh history, offering visits to long-forgotten places that were once considered vital to America's national interests. Most of the visitors here are foreigners; the Vietnamese who come are mostly schoolchildren with their teachers...Tour guide showing the narrow entrance to the vietcong/vietmin tunnels..... The Cu Chi Tunnels lie 75 km northwest of Ho Chi Min City. At the time of the Vietnam war, the tunnel system stretched from the outskirts of Saigon all the way to the Cambodian border:  something like 250 kilometers of tunnels. The tunnel system, built over 25 years starting in the 1940s, let the Viet Minh and, later, the Viet Cong, control a huge rural area.  It was an underground city with living areas, kitchens, storage, weapons factories, field hospitals, command centers.  In places, it was several stories deep and housed up to 10,000 people who virtually lived underground for years getting married, giving birth, going to school. They only came out at night to furtively tend their crops..
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  • Vietnam,  Cu Chi tunnels, one of the most famous battlegrounds of the Vietnam War. Today it is one of the country's prime tourist attractions, part of a new industry of war tourism. Sometimes, these spots seem to be memorials to wartime propaganda as much to the war itself. in their new struggle for foreign currency, the Vietnamese are exploiting their harsh history, offering visits to long-forgotten places that were once considered vital to America's national interests. Most of the visitors here are foreigners; the Vietnamese who come are mostly schoolchildren with their teachers. Cu Chi tunnels, one of the most famous battlegrounds of the Vietnam War. Today it is one of the country's prime tourist attractions, part of a new industry of war tourism. Sometimes, these spots seem to be memorials to wartime propaganda as much to the war itself. in their new struggle for foreign currency, the Vietnamese are exploiting their harsh history, offering visits to long-forgotten places that were once considered vital to America's national interests. Most of the visitors here are foreigners; the Vietnamese who come are mostly schoolchildren with their teachers...Cu Chi: tour guide showing the narrow entrance to the vietcong/vietmin tunnels. The Cu Chi Tunnels lie 75 km northwest of Ho Chi Min City. At the time of the Vietnam war, the tunnel system stretched from the outskirts of Saigon all the way to the Cambodian border:  something like 250 kilometers of tunnels. The tunnel system, built over 25 years starting in the 1940s, let the Viet Minh and, later, the Viet Cong, control a huge rural area.  It was an underground city with living areas, kitchens, storage, weapons factories, field hospitals, command centers.  In places, it was several stories deep and housed up to 10,000 people who virtually lived underground for years getting married, giving birth, going to school. They only came out at night to furtively tend their crops..
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  • Vietnam,Ho Chi Minh City: tourists buying gadgets at the War Museum...Once known as the Museum of Chinese and American War Crimes, the name change reflects a desire not to offend wealthy tourists. Despite the rhetoric, this museum has become one of the most popular attractions with Western visitors of all political persuasions. It is a stark reminder that wars rarely have winners and are never glorious. Along with the many photographs, the museum displays US armoured vehicles, artillery pieces, bombs and infantry weapons. There is even a guillotine used by the French on pesky Viet Minh 'troublemakers'.
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  • Vietnam,Ho Chi Minh City: Once known as the Museum of Chinese and American War Crimes, the name change reflects a desire not to offend wealthy tourists. Despite the rhetoric, this museum has become one of the most popular attractions with Western visitors of all political persuasions. It is a stark reminder that wars rarely have winners and are never glorious. Along with the many photographs, the museum displays US armoured vehicles, artillery pieces, bombs and infantry weapons. There is even a guillotine used by the French on pesky Viet Minh 'troublemakers'.
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  • Vietnam,Ho Chi Minh City: Once known as the Museum of Chinese and American War Crimes, the name change reflects a desire not to offend wealthy tourists. Despite the rhetoric, this museum has become one of the most popular attractions with Western visitors of all political persuasions. It is a stark reminder that wars rarely have winners and are never glorious. Along with the many photographs, the museum displays US armoured vehicles, artillery pieces, bombs and infantry weapons. There is even a guillotine used by the French on pesky Viet Minh 'troublemakers'.
    Vietnam war tourism23.jpg
  • Vietnam,Ho Chi Minh City: Once known as the Museum of Chinese and American War Crimes, the name change reflects a desire not to offend wealthy tourists. Despite the rhetoric, this museum has become one of the most popular attractions with Western visitors of all political persuasions. It is a stark reminder that wars rarely have winners and are never glorious. Along with the many photographs, the museum displays US armoured vehicles, artillery pieces, bombs and infantry weapons. There is even a guillotine used by the French on pesky Viet Minh 'troublemakers'.
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  • Vietnam,Ho Chi Minh City: Once known as the Museum of Chinese and American War Crimes, the name change reflects a desire not to offend wealthy tourists. Despite the rhetoric, this museum has become one of the most popular attractions with Western visitors of all political persuasions. It is a stark reminder that wars rarely have winners and are never glorious. Along with the many photographs, the museum displays US armoured vehicles, artillery pieces, bombs and infantry weapons. There is even a guillotine used by the French on pesky Viet Minh 'troublemakers'.
    Vietnam war tourism27.jpg
  • Vietnam,Ho Chi Minh City: Once known as the Museum of Chinese and American War Crimes, the name change reflects a desire not to offend wealthy tourists. Despite the rhetoric, this museum has become one of the most popular attractions with Western visitors of all political persuasions. It is a stark reminder that wars rarely have winners and are never glorious. Along with the many photographs, the museum displays US armoured vehicles, artillery pieces, bombs and infantry weapons. There is even a guillotine used by the French on pesky Viet Minh 'troublemakers'.
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  • Vietnam,Ho Chi Minh City: Once known as the Museum of Chinese and American War Crimes, the name change reflects a desire not to offend wealthy tourists. Despite the rhetoric, this museum has become one of the most popular attractions with Western visitors of all political persuasions. It is a stark reminder that wars rarely have winners and are never glorious. Along with the many photographs, the museum displays US armoured vehicles, artillery pieces, bombs and infantry weapons. There is even a guillotine used by the French on pesky Viet Minh 'troublemakers'.
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  • Vietnam, DMZ: Tourist taking a picture at Rockpile Hill. Along Route 9 are a series of old US military bases and other sites. Rockpile is a 230-meter-high, well, pile of rocks. This was one of the bases along the "McNamara Wall" where Americans tried to stop the flow of arms and people from north to south.
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  • Singapore, tourist souvenir photographer at Marina Bay
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  • Italy, Siena, the Palio: tourist going in and out the Piazza del campo passing throw the narrows wooden Seats called “Palchi” (all around the square)
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  • Vietnam,DMZ. Souvenir photo at the memorial museum at Khe Shan US airbase. Many of the visitors to these sites, like most of their guides, are too young to remember the war. Relatively few tourists come from the United States. For most people who come here, the war is a distant curiosity. But for the last few years, since travel to Vietnam became more open, groups of American veterans have come in search of remembered battlefields. A small number of American tour companies specialize in guiding them and gaining permission to visit remote areas
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  • Vietnam, Ha Long Bay, Cat Ba: tourists .
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  • Berlin: tourists in Charlottenburg..
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  • Vietnam, DMZ: Khe Sanh, selling war souvenirs to tourists and veterans.Here  US had a famous airbase. This was one of the most (in)famous battle sites of the war. To distract the Americans from the Tet Offensive that they were going to launch in the south, the communists started a siege of the base at Khe Sanh, here on the DMZ. US President Johnson, who was determined to avoid another disaster like the one the French suffered not long before at Dien Bien Phu, made the Joint Chiefs of Staff sign a written pledge that they wouldn't lose Khe Sanh. They didn't lose at Khe Sanh -- though the cost in human lives was terrible. And, as it turned out, the Tet Offensive -- for which Khe Sanh was just a smokescreen -- was the beginning of the end of the war
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  • Thailandia , Phi Phi Island, ashtray with tourists photos
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  • Vietnam,DMZ: Khe Sanh, selling war souvenirs to tourists and veterans.Here  US had a famous airbase. This was one of the most (in)famous battle sites of the war. To distract the Americans from the Tet Offensive that they were going to launch in the south, the communists started a siege of the base at Khe Sanh, here on the DMZ. US President Johnson, who was determined to avoid another disaster like the one the French suffered not long before at Dien Bien Phu, made the Joint Chiefs of Staff sign a written pledge that they wouldn't lose Khe Sanh. They didn't lose at Khe Sanh -- though the cost in human lives was terrible. And, as it turned out, the Tet Offensive -- for which Khe Sanh was just a smokescreen -- was the beginning of the end of the war
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  • Vietnam, Cu Chi, tour guide showing to the tourists home made traps made by Vietcong with natural materials such as wood and bamboo. They used as well to recycle unexploded  Americans bombs, and animals like snakes and bees. Everything was allowed to fight the enemy.
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  • Italy, Madonna di Campiglio, tourists on the snowscooter at Malga Ritordo
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  • MAROC, Marrakesh: ristorante Tanjia, belly dance for tourists Morocco
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  • Italy, Madonna di Campiglio, Gino BRESADOLA, take tourists with his snowscooter to his refuge restaurant Malga Ritordo
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  • Italy, Madonna di Campiglio, young tourists in Piazza righi.
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  • INDONESIA, Central Java, Prambanan Temple, young student making souvenir photos to the tourists
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  • INDONESIA, Central Java, Prambanan Temple, young student making souvenir photos to the tourists
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  • Bologna,  russian tourists in front of a gastronomy shopwindow
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  • Rome, Vatican Museums, Cortile Ottagono, tourists
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  • Rome, Vatican Museums, Cortile Ottagono, tourists
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  • Singapore, tourists at Marina Bay
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  • Sicily, Mount Etna, Crateri Silvestri
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  • Berlin , Potsdamer Platz
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  • Vietnam, Hue the citadel, old town  imperial town
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  • Thailandia , Phi Phi Island Ton Sai Bay
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  • London, Westminster Bridge
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  • FRANCE, LE PERCHE, Bubertré,  Chez nous campagne à<br />
Bubertré, concept store (brocante, boutique<br />
déco, salon de thé, B&B) dans les dépendances<br />
d’un ancien prieuré.
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  • FRANCE, LE PERCHE, Moulicent. Country Lodge
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  • Sicily, Mount Etna, Monaci, Monaci  delle terre Nere winery and resort. Guido Caffa, owner.
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  • Malta, La Valletta
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  • Trentino, Basega del Pinè, centro ippico Dalla Piccola
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  • Turkey, Istanbul, Galata bridge
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  • Trentino, Fiavè,
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  • Trentino, Castelnuovo, Centro Ippico De Bellat. Assiociaizone Amici del Cavallo
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  • FRANCE, LE PERCHE, Moutiers-au-Perche, balade à cheval avec le centre équestre Perc’Horizon
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  • Trentino, Borgo Valsugana, Sella.  I fratelli Paolo e Francesco Giacomuzzi
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  • FRANCE, LE PERCHE, Mortagne-au-Perche, Maison Maleyrand
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  • Turkey, Cappadocia, Pamukkale
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  • Trentino, Basega del Pinè, centro ippico Dalla Piccola
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  • Trentino, Bieno , Ranch Mc Mary
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  • Trentino, Bieno , in passeggiata con i cavalli del Ranch Mc Mary
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  • Turkey, Dalyan region
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  • Hlland, Nationaal Park Zuid-Kennemerland
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  • BASILICATA, Matera
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  • Portugal, Cordoba
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  • Camogli, Liguria, daily life along the beach
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  • Puglia, Italy , Carovigno seashore
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  • Portugal, Oporto seashore
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  • Venice, cafes along Canal Gran de near Ponte di Rialto
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  • Rome, Vatican Museums,Atrio dei quattro Cancelli
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  • Bagni San Filippo, Toscana, people at the natural termal baths
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  • ITALY, Liguria, Camogli.relaxing on the beach
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  • Liguria , Camogli
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  • Italy, Siena, the Palio: the horses enetered the square ready for the race. At the shot of the mortaretto, the horses come out of the Entrone and line up at the starting line, known as the mossa. As soon as the last horse reaches the starting line the race begins and lasts for three rounds of the square (about 1 kilometre in total). The first horse to cross the finishing line is the winner, regardless of whether it is still mounted.
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  • Germany, Monaco: surfing at the English Garden on Isar River
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  • Italy, Siena, the Palio: If you want to see the Palio you can choose among the wooden Seats called “Palchi” (all around the square), the windows of the Palaces on the Square and the balconies. The last are very few and, as they have a higher position and better view, like the windows,  they are more expensive. The balconies can accommodate up 2 rows of people (the first have chairs the second just stand). The windows are managed directly by the owners of the Palaces in the Campo Square or by the same Palio Business Men.
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  • Puglia, Lamie di Olimpia, Locorotondo, La Trullaia. Alessandra de Leonardis
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  • Milano, museo della Triennale. Museo del Design
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  • Milan, Chef Cracco in his restaurant
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  • Italy, Madonna di Campiglio.
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  • Trentino, Castelnuovo, Centro Ippico De Bellat. Assiociaizone Amici del Cavallo
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  • Greece, Kyklades, Milos, Sarakiniko beach
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  • Trentino, Basega del Pinè, centro ippico Dalla Piccola
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  • Florence, Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura. chef Karime Lopez
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  • PUGLIA , ITALY, Parco Naturale regionale Dune Costiere
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  • Rome, Vatican Museums, view of Saint Peter's Chapel from the entrance of the Pinacoteca
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  • Greece, Kyklades, Amorgos
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  • Italy, Siena, the Palio: people waiting for the Palio.
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  • Puglia, Monopoli, Trulli Cacatosto, Mea Argentieri
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  • PUGLIA , ITALY, riding horses in  the beach near Torre Canne
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  • Greece, Kyklades, Folegrandos
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  • England, London: Portrait Gallery
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  • ITALY, Liguria, Zoagli.<br />
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ITALY, Liguria, Zoagli.relaxing on the rocks
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  • Vietnam.
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  • Vietnam, Mekong Delta.
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  • Vietnam, Sapa :  Black H'mong minorities
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  • Vietnam, Sapa :  Black H'mong minorities
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  • Vietnam, Hanoi: lovers by the lake. innamorati sul lago in città. ....Vietnam, Hanoi: lovers by the lake. innamorati sul lago in città. ....
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  • Vietnam, Hanoi: children playing with little balls on the street.
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  • Vietnam, Ho Chi Min City: shooting with video games.
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  • Vietnam, Dien Bien Phu.
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  • Vietnam, : minorities
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  • Vietnam, Hoi An:flooded street.
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  • Vietnam, Hoi An.
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  • Vietnam, Hanoi: design shop.
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  • Vietnam, Hanoi: old man living in a ancient house of Hanoi
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  • Vietnam, Ha Long Bay: Monkey island .
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  • Vietnam, Diem bien Phu. portrait of a family.
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  • Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt
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  • Berlino: the new extension of the Deutsche Historisches Museum "IM Pei Bau" designed by IM Pei
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  • Berlino: Boeckler Park along Landwehrkanal in Kreuzberg
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  • Vietnam, Dien Bien Phu : Vietnamese veteran at the War Meseun in Dien Bien Phu, the climactic battle between French and Vietnamese Communist forces (called the Vietminh) after World War Two, took place at the town of Dien Biên in northwestern Vietnam. The defeat of over twenty-thousand French troops on 7 May 1954 after a fifty-five day siege of the camp led directly to the division of Vietnam into two countries. French forces at Dien Bien Phu found themselves surrounded and cut off. After nearly a two-month siege, the Viet Minh overran Dien Bien Phu, prompting the end of French Indochina. Today, Dien Bien Phu is a major city and is scheduled to replace Lai Chau as the provincial capital. Ironically, the development is threatening to overrun the battlefield.
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