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Jagen 87, Grunewald Forest, Berlin-Grunewald. (The term "Jagen" connotes a numbered, rectangular subdivision of the Grunewald Forest in Berlin)

 

World War II left the forested area badly damaged, and it was nearly completely cleared for to build of a United States Army Security Agency intelligence facility […]. There is very little information available to researchers regarding further use of ASA by the Western Allied US defense force. The facility is said to have been used from 1953 to approximately 1975 as a branch of the Field Station on Teufelsberg, which was only completed later. It is noteworthy that the area is marked as a "pig farm" on a map from circa 1952. This may have been a temporary camouflage.*

(translation by photographer)

 

After the Field Station was given up, the sandy area with it's little grove of fir trees became a popular cruising area, and remains so to the present day.

 

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* Gerber, Uwe: "Grunewald im Spiegel der Zeit - 'Site 4' im Jagen 87". On: forst-grunewald.de. Published by: Uwe Gerber. URL: forst-grunewald.de/?page_id=5371. Last viewed: 14. Oktober 2022.

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Uploaded on October 14, 2022
Taken on August 10, 2015