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At the end of the nineteenth century, the lung disease tuberculosis was rampant in Berlin. The Berliners preferred to see the contagious patients go rather than come. The Beelitz Heilstätten sanatorium was built on Berlin's outskirts in 1898.
The Berlin Wall has still not revealed all its secrets: only in 2018 were two forgotten sections of the Wall (re)discovered.
Instead of cars and trucks rushing by, grass, trees and shrubs grow on the A103 highway in Berlin's Schöneberg.
Just below Wissant, in Audinghen, the heavy guns of Battery Todt had a range of 55 kilometers, just far enough to hit England.
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