Stasi – Abandoned Berlin

Haus der Statistik

Spudnik — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:32:41 +0000

Haus der Statistik looms over Berlin's Alexanderplatz with STOP WARS across its bow in big red letters. The DDR's former statistics HQ is right to be angry.

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Stasi Hotel

Spudnik — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 09:07:04 +0000

East Germany checked out right before the Stasi could check in. Their hotel was never completed. Now it's just a great hulking ruin between the trees.

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Stasi spy station

Spudnik — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 11:04:47 +0000

The Stasi spy station Quelle 1 in Rhinow tapped fiber cable going from West Berlin 250km across the DDR to enemy state West Germany. Sneaky.

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Schloss Dammsmühle

Spudnik — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 18:21:00 +0000

Schloß Dammsmühle was a playground for more unsavory types than you could shake a stick at, from Nazis to Stasi officers. Now there are plans to revive it.

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The Berlin Wall’s escape

Spudnik — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 20:38:00 +0000

It was a "small sensation" to find 80 meters of the original Berlin Wall among a bunch of secretive trees that imagined they could keep it hidden forever.

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Volkspolizeikaserne Blankenburg

Spudnik — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 10:17:00 +0000

In the DDR's final days, Volkspolizei and Stasi officers arrested protestors and brought them to this police barracks in Blankenburg to brutally beat them.

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