a few days in berlin damage from the battle still there pic heavy

There's still at least one intact flak bunker still standing.

There's one in Hamburg in the St. Pauli district; its been turned into a small shopping centre last I heard.
 
highlander said:
There's still at least one intact flak bunker still standing.

There's one in Hamburg in the St. Pauli district; its been turned into a small shopping centre last I heard.
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bomb shelters are still intact yes but not the flak towers there were 3 in berlin all were destroyed after the war as required to demilitarize Germany the Zoo towers are 100% gone took the British several tries but nothing remains know (zoo tower held up the Russian assault on the Reichstag for a while and caused the Russians heavy casualties with the 88mm and 20mm cannons)

the others were blown up and seriously damaged then buried under tons of rubble when they cleaned up the city
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flak_tower

there are fully intact towers in other cities built by the Nazis
 
contact148 said:
bomb shelters are still intact yes but not the flak towers there were 3 in berlin all were destroyed after the war as required to demilitarize Germany the Zoo towers are 100% gone took the British several tries but nothing remains know (zoo tower held up the Russian assault on the Reichstag for a while and caused the Russians heavy casualties with the 88mm and 20mm cannons)

the others were blown up and seriously damaged then buried under tons of rubble when they cleaned up the city
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flak_tower

there are fully intact towers in other cities built by the Nazis
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Sorry, Flak tower is what I meant.
 
it was intact (the buried portion) until the 1980s-early 90's then the dug it up destroyed most of it and built the ugly apartments currently there now these apartments cover the entire area of the Reich Chancellery and parts of the garden where the exit to the bunker was located its now a parking lot with the billboard I posted in my pics very uninteresting actually
 
The first time I went to Europe we flew into Dusseldorf via Canada 3000, which gives you some idea how long ago that was. Had a day to blow off, so took the train into town and walked around a bit.

Every building on the east side of the river showed pockmarks around the west-facing doorways and windows. Someone was engaged in a little light suppression fire sometime in 1945.
 
First thing I noticed when I got off the Yukon transport at Dusseldorf (13 hours from Belleville, Ontario!) was pockmarked buildings. I was surprised to see them. I thought that they had been left deliberately as a reminder.
 
Murray 3-D said:
I was quite astonished by how open and un developed they left the capital area there! Its like the Mall in Washington DC or Warsaw Poland.
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I worked construction in Berlin in the late 90’s a lot of that area was untouched for two reasons, 1, it was cleared by the East Germans/Russians fora clear field of fire or 2, the amount of unexplored ordinance per square foot was to dangerous or cost effective to develop.
 
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