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Originally posted by Joeaksa
Years ago I did the same thing and there is a lot of history there. Also was doing some skydiving in the area and if you were up very early in the morning or late in the day you could still see the bomb craters all around the area. The Allies really wanted to stop all development and bombed it often during the war.
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You didn't perchance jump from one of these?
One of our pilots in Berlin managed to log quite a few hours in one. Pretty unusual for the time.
It was pretty clear that the Soviets didn't do much to clean up the area. Bulldozed some things, but plenty of unexploded ordinance still around. Lots of the buildings looked like the last bomb dropped an hour ago. It was like stepping back into time, but left plenty of opportunities to explore if you got off the beaten track (carefully!). Glad you had a chance to see it. What history!
Oops - took the off-topic topic off topic. Sorry.