Built in 1933, the building served as the main training school for german Officers and Tank crews. Between 1952 and 1994 it was the headquarters of the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany.

We’ve already written an introduction about the development of Wünsdorf into the Military Headquarters of the Reichsheer in 1914 as well as its transformation into the headquarters of the ...

Established in Magdeburg in 1913 under the name Schokoladenfabrik Pflöger & Krause “PORTOLA” – the “Portola” chocolate factory quickly established a reputation for producing high quality chocolates, ...

25 years (almost to the day) after of Adolf Hitlers suicide – his, and the ashes of some of his compatriots – were unceremoniously dumped into the river Ehle outside of Magedburg. His corpse, as well ...

“Briefly Historic” articles are short posts that have either or would have been posted on our social media accounts (such as twitter / bluesky) as threads. They are brief and interesting tales of ...

While abandoned castles and manors are more commonly found across the Oder river in Poland, every now and then we come across a little historic relic like the Schloss Thierbach in Saxony. Once hailed ...

The Flugplatz Brandis, 20km east of Leipzig, was built between 1934 and 1936 during the first wave of Nazi Luftwaffe rearmament. Designated as the “Blindflugschule 1”, it was set up to train Luftwaffe ...

Nuremberg held a special place in Nazi Germany due to its historical significance and symbolic value. The city had been a center of the Holy Roman Empire and was associated with Germanic culture and ...

Wittstock Dosse, eine der \u00e4ltesten St\u00e4dte in Brandenburg, hat seine Urspr\u00fcnge in einer slawischen Siedlung. Zum ersten Mal wurde sie in einer Stiftungsurkunde f\u00fcr das Bistum ...

Every good memorial needs a back story, and the Lions story begins in 1848 with the first Schleswig war. Through a typically complex set of treaties and inheritances, the Duchies of Schleswig, ...

Few monuments encapsulate the image of Germany (and Berlin) as much as the Brandenburg Gate. Of all the National Monuments in Germany, the neoclassical structure is by far the most recognisable (i’m ...

Just across the German border, on the outskirts of Kostrzyn nad Odrą next to the former Reichsstraße 166 lie the remnants of the gigantic prussian Fort Zorndorf, one of four fortifications built to ...