Rügen
In Lanckensburg, on the German island of Rügen, German architect Paul Imberg erected an imposing granary tower in 1913.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
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.
Rügen
In 1935, Adolf Hitler gave the go-ahead for the construction of a megalomaniac holiday colony in Prora on the German island of Rügen.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
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.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Constructed in 1933, the Karnin Lift Bridge is a railway bridge in Germany that allowed rail traffic to cross the Peenestrom River, thereby opening up the seaside resorts on the Baltic Sea coast.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
The German-German border, the 1,378-kilometer-long border that cut straight through Germany during the Cold War, was part of the Iron Curtain.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
You should not only be in Berlin for some of the finest abandoned watchtowers and barriers. The border zone also left its mark in the most northwestern city of the former GDR, Dassow, Germany.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
From 1928 until the end of World War II, the German army, hidden deep in a remote corner of the country, tested aircraft, water, and amphibious vehicles.
Rügen
A monument in red granite at the former ferry port of Sassnitz betrays the passage of Vladimir Lenin.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
In Peenemünde, Germany, the Nazi rocket testing center, a coal-fired power plant was established in 1939 to enable the energy-intensive production of liquid oxygen - the fuel for the V2 rocket.
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