Trümmerfrau
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Trümmerfrauen were women who, in the aftermath of World War II, helped clear and reconstruct the bombed cities of Germany and Austria. Hundreds of cities had suffered significant bomb and firestorm da
Trümmerfrauen at work in Berlin, July 1946
Trümmerfrauen at work in Berlin, c. 1947
The Grüner Heiner, a schuttberg in Stuttgart-Weilimdorf
Trümmerfrauen memorial, Dresden
Teufelsberg
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Teufelsberg is a non-natural hill in Berlin, Germany, in the Grunewald locality of former West Berlin. It rises about 80 metres above the surrounding Teltow plateau and 120.1 metres above the sea leve
Trümmerfrau
…some cities, Schuttberge (debris mountains) were created from leftover debris and exist today in a number of German cities, the best known of which is Teufelsberg in Berlin, which were built over a period of 22 years from debris transported by up to 80 trucks a day. Trümmerfrauen, both volunteers and regular…
Former US listening station on the top of the hill
The listening station radomes in 1974
The abandoned buildings at Teufelsberg listening station have become a magnet for street artists.
50th Anniversary of the First Permanent Building on Tberg 1963-2013