US EditionThe Abandoned Nazi Underground City that Is Hidden Under a Beautiful Countryside
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By Pavlo Fedykovych, CNN At first glance, there's nothing unusual about the countryside surrounding the small Polish village of Pniewo. The landscape is typical of the Lubusz Voivodeship: vast fields of yellow crops under big skies, interrupted only by the occasional patch of forest. It looks serene, but hidden beneath is a dark history: an underground Nazi city. Festungsfront Oder-Warthe-Bogen, or the Ostwall, is a fortified underground complex…
By Pavlo Fedykovych, CNN At first glance, there's nothing unusual about the countryside surrounding the small Polish village of Pniewo. The landscape is typical of the Lubusz Voivodeship: vast fields of yellow crops under big skies, interrupted only by the occasional patch of forest. It looks serene, but hidden beneath is a dark history: an underground Nazi city. Festungsfront Oder-Warthe-Bogen, or the Ostwall, is a fortified underground complex…
The bucolic image of the western countryside of Poland hides a monumental secret: a Nazi underground complex, known as Festungsfront Oder-Warthe-Bogen or Ostwall, which deploys kilometres of tunnels and cameras beneath the surface. What was conceived as a defensive barrier to protect Berlin from a possible Polish or Soviet invasion, has ended up becoming one of the most fascinating — and strange — relics of 20th century military engineering. The…
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