Teufelsberg

, only@not – August 6, 2009 § 0

artificial hill 80m above the surrounding Brandenburg plain, more precisely the north of Berlin’s Grunewald forest. built by Allies during WW2 from rubble est. 400,000 buildings, higher than the highest natural hill (the Kreuzberg) in the Berlin area. buried underneath the hill: a Nazi military-technical college designed by Albert Speer. Allies tried using explosives to demolish the school, but it was so sturdy that covering it with debris turned out to be easier. In the 1960s a small skiing center was built on the slopes of the hill.

US National Security Agency (NSA) built one of its largest listening stations on top of the hill, rumoured to be part of the global ECHELON intelligence gathering network. is @british sector. found as the bast vantage point for listening to Soviet and East German military traffic. operated by NSA. there till 1989, then equipment removed. vraj vykopali aj escape tunel, but never proven.

in 90s sold from city to group of investors to build hotels+appt, but left untouched. for city is not vyhodne to kupit nazad. lebo bola idea spy museum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teufelsberg
http://www.lostplaces.de/content/view/36/33/

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