Peenemünde 2020

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Pancake Tour provided by local ship company Adler
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Juliett-class museum-sub stored in the harbour
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The famous German "Energiewende" got here as well 😉
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Tarantul-class museum ship
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On board of the Tarantul corvette
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Demilitarisation, the German way 😄
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The fate of all ex-GDR Tarantul boats.
Unfortunately I didn't know the exact location and availability of the Hiddensee.
Too bad as I drove around Fall River, MA last summer 🙁
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Famous power plant seen from the harbour, the last moreless intact building of the test site.
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Airfield entrance
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The ex-JG-9 airfield itself. Yup, there's Baltic sea on the other end.
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Power plant seen from the museum entrance.
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V1...
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... and its launchpad.
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V2 replica
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And a train used to transfer German workers between the site and town of Karlshagen nearby.
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A memorial remembering the group of Soviet POWs, who hijacked He-111 from Peenemünde to escape back to the Red Army.
That's a cool story, never heard of it before!
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The power plant provides a sightseeing platform on the roof.
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Rügen island visible on the horizon, my next destination in this part of Yurop.

Comments

7 19 September 2020, 18:51

Alec K
Very cool. Thanks for sharing the pics and narrative 👍

20 September 2020, 02:53

gorby
Very interesting photos Lukasz. I hadn't heard about the Soviet POW either. Just found a Wiki entry that explains it:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Devyatayev

20 September 2020, 15:04

Łukasz Gliński
Glad you like the pics, though there is almost nothing on them😉
Thanks for the link Gorby 👍

20 September 2020, 15:38

Alec K
I saw this site in several documentaries related to the German missile program and knew that not much survived. Still nice to see photos taken by someone who was there, so thank you. I was not aware of the escape either. Cheers 👍

20 September 2020, 22:44

Ben M
There is a pancake tour, what more could you want?

21 September 2020, 00:24

Łukasz Gliński
@Alec: you're welcome, I also like to see pics of interesting places I can't visit 👍
@Ben: next time on Usedom, I'm gonna provide relevant report and pics 😄

21 September 2020, 06:53

Es-haq Khosravi
Wow! Very interesting!

21 September 2020, 10:11

Łukasz Gliński
Indeed, I found the pancake trip very tempting too 😄

21 September 2020, 10:42

Andy Ball
Cool holiday! Give me a call someday if you want to do the airfields of Lincolnshire/East Anglia.

21 September 2020, 11:30

Łukasz Gliński
Why not? But I have to wait for the end of the bat plague, so they don't lock me up on the way back home😉

21 September 2020, 12:11

Andy Ball
Haha!!

21 September 2020, 13:27

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Quick few-hours-visit to the famous northern tip of East German Usedom island.

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