Tango01  | 26 Aug 2017 11:30 a.m. PST |
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| Dwindling Gravitas | 26 Aug 2017 1:37 p.m. PST |
Quite the centrepiece! I once read (while living in Germany) that these things are so massively and solidly built that there's presently no safe way to demolish them? Don't know if it's true, but I suspect it could be, as they're still there :-) |
| Bunkermeister | 26 Aug 2017 10:06 p.m. PST |
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| Skarper | 27 Aug 2017 4:11 a.m. PST |
I understand that is the case – impossible to demolish like the U-Boat pens. At least the later can be of some use while the flak towers are just hazardous relics. |
| Andy ONeill | 27 Aug 2017 4:45 a.m. PST |
The soviets tried direct fire with the biggest artillery pieces they could find and didn't make much of an impression. So yes, I would think they're very difficult to demolish. |
| napthyme | 27 Aug 2017 1:06 p.m. PST |
there is a video on youtube about someone exploring in one that they have partially demolished and gave up turning it into a hill. quite fascinating |
| Tango01 | 27 Aug 2017 2:41 p.m. PST |
Glad you like it boys!. No mention my good friend!. (smile)
Amicalement
Armand
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| Bunkermeister | 27 Aug 2017 5:39 p.m. PST |
MRS Bunkermeister and I visited a flak tower in Berlin on our honeymoon. What could be more romantic? Mike Bunkermeister Creek
bunkermeister.blogspot.com |
| christot | 28 Aug 2017 1:38 a.m. PST |
"I understand that is the case – impossible to demolish like the U-Boat pens. At least the later can be of some use while the flak towers are just hazardous relics." Quite a few of the Flak Towers are still in use for a variety of purposes.
Not just as museums like the U-Boat pens are.
I don't think they are particularly "hazardous" |
ScottWashburn  | 28 Aug 2017 11:21 a.m. PST |
I was in an enormous flak tower in Vienna which had been turned into an aquarium of all things :) And yes, there are many of these things in big cities because there is no practical way to tear them down. |
journeys to and from the Australian national convention - and tells us what he thinks of panicking tank hordes and flat terrain!
