Comments by "Chris Cain" (@buffplums) on "Military History not Visualized" channel.

  1. Really interesting gents ... from a former RAF boy lol... not WWII era 80s - 2000s lol ... fascinated with all this I was stationed briefly at the former Luftwaffe, Gatow air base 1984 and it was an amazing place. Stone heads of all the leaders at the time were fixed above the entrances to the buildings ... and on one building one head had been destroyed... no prizes for guessing who that was! An amazing city Berlin and at the time so much and I’m. Sure still is a fascinating place in so many ways, history and art and architecture. Another thing I would like to find out is, is there any truth in a rumour that the basements to the barrack blocks at Gatow were used as a refuge by the German military when the soviets were advancing and that the soviets opened all the sluice gates of the rivers allowing the water table to rise and therefore drowned the people in the basements? Those old barrack blocks were very creepy in some ways, the one I stayed in was for temporary personnel and it was pretty much undecorated or changed since the war. The floors in the corridors wooden parquet and in our room, on the walls were racks to hold the former Luftwaffe personnel’s weapons!! I wish I’d taken some photographs. At the time I was there RAF Gatow as it was called then, was very close to the eastern border and had a lot of very sensitive equipment for intelligence gathering during the war. I was cleared from a security point so that I could work there but all we did was fit electrical cable ducting into a building that was totally empty and nothing to see. When I got back to my base in the U.K. i had to go through a special deindoctrination procedure ... all very interesting
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