Hard to believe, but it feels like history is repeating itself: the US, China and Russia are rattling their sabres again, and we all are piggy in the middle. When will they ever learn? Give peace a chance. But, tangentially, this post is ostensibly about a rather fun and playful location that you can visit in Germany that was once in the middle of the cold war idiocy.
The Teufelsberg tower, is a man-made hill in Berlin, Germany. It has a unique and intriguing history, combining elements of post-World War II reconstruction, Cold War espionage, and contemporary art and culture. And, of course, we love this kind of stuff. The hill covers the unfinished Nazi military-technical college designed by Albert Speer, Hitler’s chief architect, but we are more interested in the Cold War aspects of the story. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, the listening station was abandoned in the early 1990s.
As ever, during the Cold War, the United States National Security Agency (NSA) built a listening station on top of Teufelsberg. This facility, with its distinctive radome towers, was used to monitor Soviet and East German communications. What a surprise! The site has since become a popular location for urban explorers, graffiti artists, and tourists. It is now home to various art installations and offers panoramic views of Berlin.
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