Watch Your STEP!

The airbase is littered with ancient (ok so maybe 50 - 75 year old) unexploded munitions. We ran across several piles of the stuff as we walked around. The key here is being careful and trying to NOT walk into a field of landmines.

Kummersdorf Germany, September 2006. These are all photos of an old german then soviet air base in Kummersdorf Germany. They're in the process of tearing it down to expand Shonefeld airport, near Berlin.

Most of these buildings were built during ww1 for training the German military. Then, as WW2 progresssed rocket research was done here in an attempt to come up with larger more powerful artilery shells, and then atomic weapons. Finally, when the scientists headed to the US and Russia, they started building artilery shells and training officers here.

After WW2, when the soviets moved in, the soviets had staging post for their troops, and started doing research on rockets for the space race. Somewhere in these pictures is a soviet explosive test area (it was a buried bunker with 35 foot thick concrete walls surrounding 10 foot thick steel bunker.) which was exploded and broke windows for over 3000 houses nearly a mile away.