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 Kazanian
Location: Berlin
Gender: Female
 |  | Elstal 1938 Olympic Village, Berlin.
< on 10/29/2009 10:28 AM >
|  | | | Went here yesterday for a modeling job and took my camera... what a fantastic place. Built for the 1936 Olympics and then used by the Russians as a military base from 1945 to around 1992.
[last edit 10/29/2009 9:30 PM by Kazanian - edited 1 times]
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PhotoSeeker
    
Location: Sudbury
Gender: Male
MikeOnline
| |  | Re: Elstal 1938 Olympic Village, Berlin.
<Reply # 1 on 10/29/2009 11:38 AM >
| | | | This would definitely be on my list of things to see in Europe... very HIGH on the list.
Nice pics. Thanks for posting them.
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cr400
    
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Male
| | Re: Elstal 1938 Olympic Village, Berlin.
<Reply # 3 on 10/29/2009 1:58 PM >
| | | | Very nice photos, a model and photographer!! Probably an artist also. Thanks for posting these, loved them.
You can see a million miles tonite, but you can't get very far.
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Kazanian
Location: Berlin
Gender: Female
| | Re: Elstal 1938 Olympic Village, Berlin.
<Reply # 4 on 10/29/2009 3:51 PM >
| | | | Posted by cr400
Very nice photos, a model and photographer!! Probably an artist also. Thanks for posting these, loved them.
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 No, not an artist I'm afraid, I'm rubbish at painting... that's why I photograph ;)
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justakitty
Location: The Dirty 'Shwa, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Female
| | Re: Elstal 1938 Olympic Village, Berlin.
<Reply # 5 on 10/29/2009 8:35 PM >
| | | | Amazing... certainly a "to do list" kind of place. Thanks for the tour!
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Mr. "D"
Location: East Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
| | Re: Elstal 1938 Olympic Village, Berlin.
<Reply # 6 on 10/29/2009 8:45 PM >
| | | | I'm loving these pictures Kazanian. Thank you very much for sharing them with us.
"If you don't believe your country should come before yourself. Ya can better serve your country, by living somewhere else" - Stompin' Tom Connors
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Kazanian
Location: Berlin
Gender: Female
| | Re: Elstal 1938 Olympic Village, Berlin.
<Reply # 7 on 10/29/2009 8:51 PM >
| | | | It's my pleasure guys! It's nice to have somewhere to share them with fellow explorers
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Muskoka
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
| | Re: Elstal 1938 Olympic Village, Berlin.
<Reply # 8 on 10/29/2009 9:24 PM >
| | | | Nice images of a great location.
If I may though, the Berlin Summer Olympics were in 1936, not 1938.
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Kazanian
Location: Berlin
Gender: Female
| | Re: Elstal 1938 Olympic Village, Berlin.
<Reply # 9 on 10/29/2009 9:29 PM >
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Oops! Thanks for the correction
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Danno
Location: Newcastle Ontario
Gender: Male
| | Re: Elstal 1938 Olympic Village, Berlin.
<Reply # 10 on 10/30/2009 1:39 AM >
| | | | If this was occupied for 47 years by the Russians, one would think that the swastika would be the first item to be defaced on that painting, yet it still remains !!
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Imbroglio
Location: DFW
Gender: Male
The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
| | | Re: Elstal 1938 Olympic Village, Berlin.
<Reply # 11 on 10/30/2009 6:20 PM >
| | | | Wow...amazing location; thanks for sharing!
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Kazanian
Location: Berlin
Gender: Female
| | Re: Elstal 1938 Olympic Village, Berlin.
<Reply # 13 on 10/31/2009 5:40 PM >
| | | | Posted by Off-Limits
Amazing! How did you get inside all those buildings? I thought they where all boarded up. Definitely on my to-do list.
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I was there with another photographer doing some modeling for him and he had organised getting keys to the main buildings... I think the general public can just go and have a look around but you need to get permission and keys to actually get into the buildings as the whole complex is guarded and under some restoration.
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gr8fzy1
Location: Waterbury, CT
Gender: Male
Fewer and Fewer...
| |  |  | Re: Elstal 1938 Olympic Village, Berlin.
<Reply # 14 on 11/2/2009 12:33 AM >
| | | | That Bas Relief in #14 is insane!
Softly creeping through
Empty hallways decades old,
glimpsing history. |
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Kazanian
Location: Berlin
Gender: Female
| | Re: Elstal 1938 Olympic Village, Berlin.
<Reply # 15 on 11/2/2009 7:04 AM >
| | | | Posted by gr8fzy1
That Bas Relief in #14 is insane!
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I know!!! Apparently it was only discovered very recently underneath a layer of plaster... they think it was covered over after the war for obvious reasons... but I'm very glad they've decided to reveal it again... afterall, it's an important part of the sites history.
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Lichtbringer
Location: Köln
Gender: Male
I liked popular culture before it became popular.
| | | Re: Elstal 1938 Olympic Village, Berlin.
<Reply # 16 on 11/28/2009 5:11 PM >
| | | | Yeah... what an amazing location.
I've been there with a buddy about a month ago. When you visit it as a normal person on a normal day, this place is a museum. You pay 1 € and can walk around freely.
Personally however, we found it so boring that we left about 30 minutes later without taking any pictures. Fortunately, there is a real abandonment right on the other side of the freeway...
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lady_elle
Location: Sacramento, Ca
Gender: Female
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
| |  | Re: Elstal 1938 Olympic Village, Berlin.
<Reply # 17 on 11/28/2009 11:02 PM >
| | | | Wow, just wow. This is so awesome. Your pics are amazing!
We were here...and it was glorious. |
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Jerkabobber
Location: Buffalo, NY. USA
Gender: Male
Try to preserve nature where you live, not just where you visit
| |  | | Re: Elstal 1938 Olympic Village, Berlin.
<Reply # 18 on 11/29/2009 1:42 AM >
| | | | So totally unique, these pic's are fantastic, as is the history. WoW!!! Very very cool :-0
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maZe
Location: Montreal/Moncton/Ottawa
Gender: Female
"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed" - Sean O'Casey
| |  | | Re: Elstal 1938 Olympic Village, Berlin.
<Reply # 19 on 12/5/2009 6:08 PM >
| | | | The Olympic Village is open for tours all summer long but closes 31 October. If you want to get inside buildings (only certain ones though), you need to do the tour with a guide. If you just want to roam the land (outside the buildings) you can then simply pay the 1 euros and go for walk.
A foundation now owns the place and they are doing a lot to raise funds in order to be able to stabilize certain buildings (like the pool on which the roof is falling) and to restore certain buildings (they just finised restoring the building where Jesse Owens stayed in 1936).
Basically, the place was built and imagined so that two weeks after the Olympics, it would be turned into a training academy for nazi officers. And that's what they did. This explains why the atlhetes housing strangely looks like military barracks. As, well, they were. Under each barrack was a "space to store luggages", which was in fact a bunker to go to in case of bombing. Only men lived in the olympic village at Elstal and countries weren't mixed - meaning each athletes were kept with their own people. The village was litterally built in the middle of nowhere to be able to better control the athletes.
The main entrance of the village (which "accidently" burned down the night before the Russians left...) was designed by the same architect that designed the entrance gates of concentration camp and it's striking how it looks exactly like the entrance of all the nazi concentration camps.
Also, the director of the Olympic village committed suicide 2 days after the end of the Olympics. The Nazi had discovered he had some Jewish roots and he was scared of being taken away to a camp. He shot himself near the lake not far behind his house at the olympic village.
As for the Swastika in the painting, well if you look carefully, it is down and illustrate Hilter's defeat (right of the door), on the left, you see the replicate of a famous photo showing a Russian soldier on top of the Reichstag - a photo that was staged (the original flag raising happened at night so no photo was possible) and became the first famous case of photoshopping (the soldier had 6 watches that he had stolen on dead Germans - it was decided to 1)remove the watches from the image and 2)emphasize the flag so it would look more dramatic). This painting was done by the Russian themselves and is located in what was the Russian senior officers' reception hall.
Official website of the foundation. Of course, in german.
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