2018-01-21

Rex The Dog - Teufelsberg



it's time to climb, but the summit this infinite hill, is not the, "Teufelsberg", (Devils Tower,  an artificial hill in Berlin, Germany. And just like the meaning of its name, there is something dark and mysterious about this mountain… It rises approximately 80 meters above the surrounding Brandenburg plain – the north of Berlin’s Grunewald Forest. It was named after the Teufelssee, i.e. Devil’s lake, in its southerly vicinity. The Teufelsberg was created shortly after World War II, by heaping the remains of the rubble left after the damage of the war (all 75,000,000 m3 of it!) And while this sounds amazing in itself, it is surprisingly not particularly unique, as there are several other man-made mounds across Germany and other parts of Eastern Europe. However, what makes Teufelsberg unique, is that also buried underneath, is the remains of the never completed Nazi military-technical college Wehrtechnische Fakultät designed by Albert Speer (Hitler’s chief architect and also known as ‘the Nazi who said sorry’ after admitting responsibility at the Nuremberg Trials), our's is the High Ground as, standardz, hahahahahaha, :) #edio

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