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3 days ago

Old lungs, fresh air: The forgotten clinic For a long time, the fate of the magnificent Bauhaus-style lung clinic on the edge of the Harz Mountains seemed sealed. Where once state-of-the-art medicine met architectural

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10 days ago

Forgotten Sugar Plant: The Brick Castle Creaking timbers, fluttering pigeons, and the skeletal remains of a vanished empire. Once the "Zuckerfabrik Glauzig AG" - a global titan with its own railway - this red-brick giant now stands a

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17 days ago

Rocket City: Where the Baltic Sea has touched the Space In Peenemünde, the Third Reich once conducted research on its "wonder weapons." Later, the East German NVA turned this secret tip of the island of Usedom into a restricted…

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24 days ago

Haunted Houses: Greed in the valley of Ghosts Where kings once marched and Goethe found inspiration, a socialist dream is crumbling into silence. There are Haunted Houses in the German Harz Mountains - Whitnesses of a Greed for Lime

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about 1 month ago

The Ghost on the hill: Ruins of childhoods Once a bustling center of socialist education, the POS „Ernst Schneller“ now stands as a decaying fortress overlooking the Harz mountains. With 850,000 views on YouTube, it’s

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about 1 month ago

The Monster of Prora: Hitler's Holiday Paradise In Prora on the island of Rügen, Hitler wanted to create a gigantic holiday paradise. The plans for the KdF (Strength Through Joy) seaside resort were awarded a prize at the World's Fair – but were ne

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about 1 month ago

The Pig Prison: Fresh Flesh for the Comrades At times, there were more pigs than eligible voters in East Germany. In Maasdorf near Köthen, a memorial to this era still stands – a time when the supposedly successful model of indu

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about 2 months ago

Echoes of Summer: From Red Pioneers to Ruins For decades, the air in the Harz mountains was filled with the laughter of 800 children at a time. Today, the only sound is the creak of rusty hinges and the rustle of ferns growi

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2 months ago

The Castle of Evil: Red Terror in Ruins Germany - once the proud nation of high-tech industry and global-exporting factories - now finds itself fringed by tales of what might have been: abandoned innovation parks, ruined industria

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2 months ago

Built on Sand: The Praying Madonna of the Ruins God left 40 years ago - the artists stayed. Discover the forgotten history of the St. Nicholas Church in Zeitz. Once a Neo-Gothic masterpiece, it is now a sprawling "lost place

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