Nazi Bombers Buried Under Busy Airport
Allan Hall writes for The Scotsman that recently discovered East German intelligence files reveal that tons of live ammunition, as well as fueled Nazi fighter planes, are buried in concrete bunkers beneath Schoenefeld airport, which is used by thousands of travelers every year.
When the Nazis were under pressure during the end of World War II, they buried the planes parked on the runway in concrete, rather than letting them fall into Soviet hands. “They would have stuffed them anywhere they could?there was simply too much stuff to blow up all at once,” says historian Karl-Heinz Eckhardt. “There was a warren of massive Nazi bunkers beneath the site of the present airport that would have suited their purposes.”
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