German former Iron Curtain

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariental-Horst

main gateway at Mariental-Horst in Germany. Originally built as a Nazi Luftwaffe barracks, it was taken over by British forces in 1945. It became a massive Allied transit hub (Durchgangslager) under 'Operation Swallow,' processing over 500,000 displaced persons, concentration camp survivors, and post-war refugees before closing in 1947. Today, the entire military architecture has been completely integrated into a quiet civilian residential neighborhoodЧитать далее