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In 1936, the German Nazi regime organized the Olympic Games. Therefore, the Olympic Village was built on the military domain of Döberitzer.
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The residents of the German village of Wünsdorf saw many neighbors coming and going during the Second World War when the army quickly built bunkers to hide the German Army High Command.
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The cradle of the German lime and cement industry is in Rüdersdorf, where the largest limestone quarry in Central Europe is located.
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Chemiewerk Rüdersdorf was founded in 1899 as a cement factory near the city's lime quarries.
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Until 1994, Wünsdorf, East Germany, was the headquarters of the Russian army during the Cold War. In front of the officer's residence, a statue of Lenin looks out over the overgrown parade square.
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Until 1994, a diorama in the former military headquarters of the Soviet Army in Germany housed 'The Battle of Berlin,' a thirty-six-meter long and seven-meter-high painting that weighed more than a ton.
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In 1994, the last Russian soldiers withdrew from the forbidden city in Wünsdorf, the headquarters of the Red Army during the Cold War.
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. That's why the Russian soldiers who camped in the forbidden city of Wünsdorf during the Cold War had access to an indoor and outdoor pool and saunas.
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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.
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Although you could once commute from Mittenwalde Ost station to Berlin and Zossen, the locomotives are only now making an appearance.
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