Pionierlager Klim Woroschilow was a summer holiday camp for East German children while the country still existed. They sang songs around campfires and generally had a good time.
One of the first skyscrapers ever built in Ivory Coast’s commercial capital of Abidjan, La Pyramide was supposed to herald a new era as part of the Ivorian “economic miracle” of the 1970s.
Germany put thousands of forced laborers and prisoners of war to work on Kraftwerk Vogelsang from April 1943. It was one of five such power plants designed to help the country’s war effort. Many of the workers died.
The Stasi, East Germany's dreaded secret police, had plans to build a luxury wellness hotel – MfS-Ferienheim Buchheide – close to Lübbesee lake about 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Berlin.
Concentration camp prisoners were forced to bake bread at the SS Bakery for their fellow inmates and for an ever expanding range of Nazi endeavors around Oranienburg from 1941. They made two types of bread – one for the prisoners and another for SS members.
No trains have trundled along the Siemensbahn’s tracks since September 1980. The West Berlin S-Bahn line was run by the East German state railway company, which pulled the plug on services in response to a strike from workers.
Flugplatz Oranienburg’s biggest claim to fame is as a test center for the legendary Horten Ho IX/Horten Ho 229 Flying Wing, the world’s first ever “stealth” bomber.