Berlin had nowhere to put the rubble of its bombed buildings, so the city heaped 26 million cubic metres of it over a half-built Nazi military college. The Americans then put a listening station on the summit to eavesdrop on the East
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Berlin spent 22 years burying a building it could not get rid of.
That building was the Wehrtechnische Fakultät, a faculty of military technology begun in 1937 as part of Germania, Hitler’s plan to rebuild the city as a world capital. Albert Speer drew it up. War stopped the work and left a concrete shell sitting in the Grunewald forest, and after 1945 nobody could agree on what to do with it. Berlin’s official city portal says the shell was blown up and the site then turned into a r
That building was the Wehrtechnische Fakultät, a faculty of military technology begun in 1937 as part of Germania, Hitler’s plan to rebuild the city as a world capital. Albert Speer drew it up. War stopped the work and left a concrete shell sitting in the Grunewald forest, and after 1945 nobody could agree on what to do with it. Berlin’s official city portal says the shell was blown up and the site then turned into a r
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