Germany's Underground

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The facility was constructed with slave labour from concentration camps, where up to 320,000 inmates are believed to have been worked to death. B8 Bergkristall stopped all works on May 3, 1945, as allied troops approached the nearby town. Image Credit : Ziegenberg – CC BY-SA 4.0

How could German neo-Nazi killers have evaded police for 13 years? The Guardian. Retrieved 8 August 2012. That forecast comes from researchers at Tübingen's Institute for Applied Economic Research (IAW) and Austria's Johannes Kepler University in Linz, who believe the parallel economy will amount to 12.2 percent of Germany's GDP this year. Compared to other OECD countries, that puts Germany somewhere in the middle. Unfortunately, Essen does not have its own commercial airport. Instead, there is just one air facility for private use, independent pilots and charter flights. However, most visitors use the Düsseldorf International Airport, which is incidentally, the third busiest air terminal in Germany. Others speculate that the Nazis’ various anti-gravity experiments would have been much safer to conduct deep within manmade caves.Fromm quits. Next, please!" (Comment editorial) Berliner Zeitung (German). Retrieved 8 August 2012. Others suggest that the elaborate underground complex that Project Riese intended to build would have been a perfect safe space for the Nazis to conduct their endless and notorious military experiments: Any intentional harm done to transport vehicles or overall facilities is punishable by fine. If the behavior persists, the responsible party will be expelled from the system. Described variously as the “Fly Trap” or “The Henge” (due to its resemblance to Stonehenge), this outdoors, above-ground remnant of Project Reise is variously said to be a UFO launching pad, an anti-gravity device, a time machine, or maybe just the humble remains of an industrial cooling tower. What role did this beautiful castle play in this sinister plot? Ksiaz Castle. ( Wikimedia Commons)

As the tide turned against the Nazis in 1943, Hitler and his engineers began building an elaborate underground city joined by tunnels where they would be able to conduct their war plans unimpeded by Allied bombers or encroaching Red Army troops. Von Der Behrens, Antonia (15 January 2018). "Lessons from Germany's NSU case". Race & Class. 59 (4): 84–91. doi: 10.1177/0306396817751307. ISSN 0306-3968. S2CID 220072502. The bunker sustained repeated bombing raids by Allied forces during a joint Anglo-American campaign called Operation Crossbow, which was an initiative to remove the threat of German long-range weapons programs.

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Each train is low level to better facilitate the entry and exit of passengers. Space is also reserved for wheelchairs, strollers and bicycles.

It is said that children as young as 10 were put to work pushing mining cards and performing other forced menial labor. Believe it or not, there are tours! In their postwar memoirs, Albert Speer and others insisted that Project Riese was intended to be Adolf Hitler’s spacious underground headquarters and a general hiding space for the Nazi top brass. But other researchers say that the manner in which this information was deliberately spread by notoriously unreliable sources is evidence that this was a purposeful Nazi misinformation campaign designed to deflect attention from Project Riese’s true purpose… …or was it supposed to be a super-huge underground military base for nuclear tests, hypersonic jets, anti-gravity devices, and other “wonder weapons” such as the “Nazi Bell”? Essen’s light rail system travels along a central subway route that extends from Essen Hauptbahnhof to Berliner Platz. It crosses the city center where the trains, on Stadtbahn’s 3 commercial lines travel as well. The remaining structure is surface level. Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund": Verfassungsschützer womöglich in "Döner-Mord" involviert – Politik". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 14 November 2011 . Retrieved 11 September 2012.Alcohol consumption or being under the influence of alcohol is not permitted in any metro facilities. After the war the base was rechristened “Base Ingénieur Général Stosskopf” and was used by the French Navy until 1997. Image Credit : Herman Pijpers – CC BY 2.0