ABANDONED SPY STATION WALKING TOUR – DEVIL’S MOUNTAIN BERLIN【4K🇩🇪】

ABANDONED SPY STATION WALKING TOUR – DEVIL’S MOUNTAIN BERLIN【4K🇩🇪】

🐢Today we take a virtual walking tour around an abandoned ‘Spy Station’ aka ‘Devil’s Mountain’ here in West Berlin, Germany. We hope you enjoy this wonderful walk and enjoy the fantastic street art by some amazing street artists from all around the world!

📅 Filmed 21st April 2024 (10°c) Berlin, Germany
🎬 Filmed with my DJI Osmo Pocket 2

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🌍 Teufelsberg (German for Devil’s Hill) is a non-natural hill in Berlin, Germany, in the Grunewald locality of former West Berlin. It rises about 80 metres (260 ft) above the surrounding Teltow plateau and 120.1 metres (394 ft) above the sea level, in the north of Berlin’s Grunewald Forest. It was named after the Teufelssee (Devil’s Lake) in its southerly vicinity. The hill is made of debris and rubble, and covers an unfinished Nazi military-technical college (Wehrtechnische Fakultät). During the Cold War, there was a U.S. listening station on the hill, Field Station Berlin. The site of the former field station is now fenced off and is currently being managed by an organisation which charges 10 euros for public access.

The US National Security Agency (NSA) built one of its largest listening stations atop the hill in 1963, supposedly as part of the global ECHELON intelligence gathering network. “The Hill”, as it was known colloquially by the many American soldiers who worked there around the clock and who commuted there from their quarters in the American Sector, was located in the British Sector. In July 1961, mobile Allied listening units began operations on Teufelsberg, having surveyed various other locales throughout West Berlin in a search for the best vantage point for listening to Soviet, East German, and other Warsaw Pact nations’ military traffic. They found that operations from atop Teufelsberg offered a marked improvement in listening ability. This discovery eventually led to a large structure being built atop the hill, which would come to be run by the NSA (National Security Agency). Construction of a permanent facility was begun in October 1963. At the request of the US government, the ski lifts were removed because they allegedly disturbed the signals. The station continued to operate until the fall of East Germany and the Berlin Wall, but after that the station was closed and the equipment removed. The buildings and antenna radomes still remain in place.
(info from Wikipedia)

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