vogelsang

Russian Nuclear bunker at Vogelsang

I went on a Berlin trip last weekend to go and visit some sites to photograph. Our lack of organisation this time, caused us to falter on directions which hindered our timing so we couldn't visit as much as we wanted to, but still managed 5 sites in a couple of days and 25km of walking... I have...

Visited with a non-member. History paraphrased from Wikipedia. Built in 1952 to house 15,000 people including military personnel and their families. The town was self contained and had off-limit areas for non-essential personnel. It was home to nuclear missiles pointed Westward from 1959 to...

Construction at this 7,000 hectare site began in 1951 (one of the few complexes purpose-built by the Russians) before the garrison became home to around 18,000 soldiers and civilians, tanks, anti-aircraft missiles, tactical missiles and nuclear missiles. Soldiers carried out manoeuvres at...

In June of 2012 Erik and I have visited this armybase This based housed 15,000 soldiers and their families, from the elite 72nd RVGK engineer brigade. Declassified documents released in the 1990s revealed that this base had nuclear missiles stored there in 1958, aimed at London, Paris...