Massive Flak Towers of the Reich

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A Third Reich “flakturm” in the Augarten park in Vienna. This and other stupendous flak towers were both air-raid shelters for civilians (protecting them with 2.5-meter/8-foot thick walls) and, up on the roof, there were platforms  for huge anti-aircraft (flak) guns to shoot down Allied bombers. About 100,000 American airmen died while trying to bomb Germany, many from flak, and so did almost as many Brits perish from accurate flak. 

A German Luftwaffe officer

Augarten: Exploring Vienna’s Forgotten Treasure

[source: http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/37-images-massive-german-flak-towers.html]

Berlin, gesprengter Bunker im Friedrichshain

Flak towers were 8 complexes of large, above-ground, anti-aircraft gun blockhouse towers constructed in the cities of Berlin (3), Hamburg (2), and Vienna (3) from 1940 onwards. Other cities that used flak towers included Stuttgart and Frankfurt. Smaller single-purpose flak towers were built at key outlying German strongpoints, such as at Angers, France and Heligoland, Germany.

They were used by the Luftwaffe to defend against Allied air raids on these cities during World War II. They also served as air-raid shelters for tens of thousands of people and to coordinate air defence.

 

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10 Comments

  1. “About 100,000 American airmen died while trying to bomb Germany, many from flak, and so did almost as many Brits perish from accurate flak.”

    The Allies’ human extermination crews received the best possible training. In the classic American didactic tradition, an impressive animated instructional film on the functioning of anti-aircraft guns (Flak resp. die Flugabwehrkanone: Flug = flight, Abwehr = resistance/defense, Kanone = cannon) was produced in 1994:

    “Flak, 1944”, 16 Minuten,

    https://archive.org/details/TF1-3389Flak

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6710554/

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