Posted by BoredFun27 Wow! Makes me wonder how many more cold war bunkers have been forgotten that nobody been in since they closed.
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MANY in Germany! The cheaper & expedient thing for them (DDR, FRG, NATO & Warsaw Pact) to do was modify an old bunker left-over from WW-II, but those locations were known, so for really important sites during the Cold War, they were built new, ideally with some sort of 'cover-story' as to what the construction was.
Best thing to do is talk to Cold War military veterans and local old-timers.
To some of us, these sorts of places are amazing & we think they should be museums/tourist attractions, but to people who once worked at them or many locals who've known about them for decades, they're no big deal & something they tend not to put much thought into, unless someone asks. For some locals, they know that
something secret was located into a forest, built into a hill, or down some gated road, but beyond that, they don't really know what it was.
These days, Google Earth can help locate 'suspicious' things to investigate further, but by the later days of the Cold War when everyone used satellites, some access roads were & above-ground support structures disguised. For buried sites in areas that would get snow in the winter, some of them had ground chillers above the underground bunkers so that heat given-off by the secret site wouldn't cause snow on the surface to melt and provide an aerial 'signature' of something suspicious being there.
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