Interested in finding out secrets? This is where Berlin stands and has a lot in store for you to discover. When there are so many subcultures and concealed backyards, one can only explore the city’s secret places. Read on to discover some.
The Berlin Wall Escape Tunnels
In the war times people wanted to shift from West Berlin to East Berlin, or from an unsafe house to a safe one, and suddenly! Tunnels were the answers. They did not dig ordinary tunnels but tunnels equipped with lighting and ventilation they certainly included weapons of course. Many of them were constructed from December 1961 to 1985. Of course there were some hindrances and attempts of attacks by the German secret police, but they were more or less successful at it.
Escaping Via the Sewage System
This is an under man made safe channel that victims of the way constructed as shown below; The escape route was first a square shape within the area of the circle of the sewage meaning there was just enough space to crawl under – through the sewage. They then moved to oval shaped grating in the sewers that worked better later on. This was most difficult to help people exiting through this channel as in turn it had to be covered, manned and camouflaged but it was of tremendous assistance and today it’s an artifact of our history.
Berlin’s underground station
The East Berlin U-Bahn Underground Stations
Initially when the Berlin wall was put up, the U-Bahn lines that were part of the east were separated from the west of Berlin. Later on, the worst situations forced the west to lease out two of their productive lines U 6 and U 8. Without and so, people, especially guards had been able to escape by simply moving onto the trains belonging to the west from the part of the east Berlin Metro stations in the west.
The underground metro stations.
Amongst lists of secrets, this one will entice you. Sleeping just beneath and beneath the feet of everyone who is walking along the sidewalk, is an immense passage to an underground station. You could decide to enter the metro where you will find 7 tunnels that have been used as evacuation routes during the war.
Having learned all of this you should go feast your eyes on the illustrations so as to have an image of artefacts and spoils of war in the Berlin area.
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