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Old places and new myths in Berlin

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Beelitz-Heilstatten is a vast hospital complex of 60 buildings designed by architect Heino Schmieden [Credit: Marco Baringer]
Published On 29 Aug 201029 Aug 2010
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The hospital was used by the military during World War I [Credit: Marco Baringer]
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During World War I, Adolf Hitler was treated at Beelitz for a leg wound [Credit: Marco Baringer]
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Nature is now overrunning the boarded up hospital [Credit: Marco Baringer]
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Plans to turn the hospital into a school or a retirement home have been suggested [Credit: Marco Baringer]
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Most of the rooms have been stripped of their equipment and furniture [Credit: Marco Baringer]
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But what remains points to ingenuity in engineering and design [Credit: Marco Baringer]
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The former Iraqi embassy was abandoned towards the end of the first Gulf War [Credit: Marco Baringer]
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Office furniture was left behind when the staff left [Credit: Marco Baringer]
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Abandoned documents and manuals litter the building [Credit: Marco Baringer]
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The embassy has now been boarded up [Credit: Marco Baringer]
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Kulturpark Planterwald was the only amusement park in the GDR [Credit: Marco Baringer]
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Beyond the closed gates moss and grass has consumed the rides [Credit: Marco Baringer]
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The site is now used as a venue for photo and film shoots [Credit: Marco Baringer]
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Trespassers have also left their mark [Credit: Marco Baringer]
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During the Cold War, the former West built a listening station on top of the Teufelsberg Hill to eavesdrop on East German military traffic [Credit: Marco Baringer]
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In 1998, the Berlin senate forcibly reclaimed Teufelsberg [Credit: Marco Baringer]
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City investors have toyed with the idea of building a spy museum on the site [Credit: Marco Baringer]
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But a veterans group is campaigning to erect a memorial at Teufelsberg [Credit: Marco Baringer]
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Barbel Simon of Berlin(***)s Cold War Museum fears that (***)one more theatre of the Cold War(***) is being neglected [Credit: Marco Baringer]


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