Flugplatz Oranienburg was built between 1936 and 1939 and used almost until the end of the war by the Heinkel-Werke Oranienburg armaments factory to develop and build warplanes for Germany’s Luftwaffe.

The former airfield’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, which reached speeds of up to 960 km/h in the summer of 1944.

Allied bombing finished off the Heinkel works In April 1945. The Soviets took over after the war and left their mark on the airfield, which has suffered since they left in 1994.

Signs of their presence can still be found there today, but you won’t find any traces of the elusive Horten Ho IX.

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Music: "Children who have never seen the sky" by MUQDISHO.

Film edited by Cecília Pestana.