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Got a chance to do some exploring last week on my hols to Berlin.
I’ve done a bit of googling and came up with this history on the place.
Until the end of the Second World War, this site housed a German army engineer’s school.
In April 1945, the Red Army approached the Reich's capital, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, commander of the 1st Belarusian Front, established his headquarters at Karlshorst.On the night of 8 May 1945, shortly after midnight, Field Marshall Keitel signed the unconditional surrender of the German armed forces here in the officers’ dining hall.
From 1945 to 1949, it was the headquarters of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany.The last Russian soldiers left Karlshorst in 1994.
The site was rather big,lots and lots of buildings.Didn't have time to get in them all as the light went.The ones we did get into were stripped bare except for a few features.
Big thanks to Antitude for linking me and showing me some places.
Enough of my yawn talk,heres some pics...
I’ve done a bit of googling and came up with this history on the place.
Until the end of the Second World War, this site housed a German army engineer’s school.
In April 1945, the Red Army approached the Reich's capital, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, commander of the 1st Belarusian Front, established his headquarters at Karlshorst.On the night of 8 May 1945, shortly after midnight, Field Marshall Keitel signed the unconditional surrender of the German armed forces here in the officers’ dining hall.
From 1945 to 1949, it was the headquarters of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany.The last Russian soldiers left Karlshorst in 1994.
The site was rather big,lots and lots of buildings.Didn't have time to get in them all as the light went.The ones we did get into were stripped bare except for a few features.
Big thanks to Antitude for linking me and showing me some places.
Enough of my yawn talk,heres some pics...
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