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Schwerbelastungskörper

From 1941, 12,000 tons of concrete in a 15-m-high and 20-m-diameter cylinder were built to test the load-bearing capacity of the Berlin soils (turns out glacial sands are no good basis for gargantuan architecture) for Albert Speer's Germania buildings.

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Schwerbelastungskörper
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Too massive for later blasting, this is one of the more bizarre remains of the Third Reich.

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