Trespassing Into History

The secret plans for the rearmament of Germany had included the construction of an military airfield in this area since 1934, and in 1935, the Reich's Ministry for Aviation boguht large properties in the northern area of the planned airfield and built wooden barracks to accomodate the workers.

In numerous construction phases, a complete airfield was built until 1939, including concrete runways with illumination, radio beacon and quite a few hangars. In addition, the airfield was connected to the main line railroad and was completed by living quarters for the soldiers.....(more)

On the edge of a large military training area in the federal state of Brandenburg, south of Berlin, are the remains of a support intelligence center of the Soviet armed forces in Germany.

The object consists of a small communications bunker with a floor area of approx. 200 square meters, a garage complex, a social building, a small generator shelter, a USB-type bunker that served as a food cold store and two switching boilers. There is also a sauna building in the style of a Russian log cabin. There is also a residential building with a dining room and cinema on the site. The comms bunker itself basically consists of just 5 large rooms and a few...(more)

Our 2020 New Year's tour took us to an abandoned village. Well, not a “real” village in that sense, but an abandoned pioneer camp of the former GDR.

We had already driven past it several times on our excursions, but never had the time to take a closer look - this time it was actually on our list.

We found an official parking lot not too far away and went straight to the large main gate. There was a small gate next to it. It was open, so we walked in at our leisure.

It was a really nice day. The winter sun was low, even though it was only 2pm, so we had some really nice light in places....(more)