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I was stationed 90 miles behind the Iron Curtain at Tempelhof Airport in West Berlin, Germany. West Berlin was also 37 miles west of Poland. When the Berlin wall came down in 1989 the two Germany's were united.
We were the Long Range Radar responsible for getting aircraft through communist East Germany enroute to free West Berlin. There were only 3 air corridors they were allowed to travel per the Potsdam Treaty that divided Germany at the end of WW2. Each corridor was 10 miles wide with a 10,000 foot ceiling. Planes that strayed out of the corridor could be shot down no questions asked.
This is Tempelhof Central Airport. At the time it was the 3rd largest building in the world w/ 3 million sq ft of floor space. Hitler intended to build 4 of them (one on each street corner and make Berlin the air traffic hub of the world. It was designed to look like an eagle in flight from the air and there is a distance of 3 miles from wingtip to wingtip. There are also 9 floors underground.
I actually lived in the building.
Whoa. Just whoa. I always think about how awkward it is to have all these gigantic reminders of Hitler everywhere.
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