In Lanckensburg, on the German island of Rügen, German architect Paul Imberg erected an imposing granary tower in 1913.
In Lanckensburg, on the German island of Rügen, German architect Paul Imberg erected an imposing granary tower in 1913.
Crumbling Soviet statues look with sorrow at the decline of one of the most important bases of the Russian air force in East Germany: the Pütnitz airport in Damgarten.
From 1936 onwards, hundreds of scientists, engineers and technicians settled in the German fishing village of Peenemünde on the Baltic Sea to develop and test the V2 rocket.
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