On the night of April 25 to 26, 1940, the British Royal Air Force bombed the German capital Berlin. For Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, it was unpalatable to have bombs hit the capital of his Third Reich.
Discover abandoned places, hidden monuments and untold stories in the capital of Germany, Berlin.
On the night of April 25 to 26, 1940, the British Royal Air Force bombed the German capital Berlin. For Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, it was unpalatable to have bombs hit the capital of his Third Reich.
In the Herzberge landscape park, a green oasis in Berlin's Lichtenberg district, the Queen Elisabeth evangelical hospital was built at the end of the nineteenth century and was heated from a separate boiler room.
In 1837, August Borsig set up a workshop on Chausseestraße in Berlin. Three years later, he assembled his first locomotive, the first of many.
Karlshorst not only has a former airport in store but also a vanished zeppelin shed and a railway yard that has been transformed into a landscape park.
A 50-meter-high water tower rises from the ground between the former Tempelhof railway yard tracks in Berlin. With a capacity of 400 cubic meters of water, he could supply ten steam locomotives with the snap of a finger.
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