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unusual facts about Berlin Lichterfelde



Steglitz

The southwestern surroundings of Berlin saw considerable change in the second half of the 19th century when luxurious residential areas were developed in the neighboring villages of Lichterfelde and later Dahlem.


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Jürgen Wagner

In his early years he attended a number of schools in Wesel, Münster and Erfurt, in 1915 he joined the cadet corps in Naumburg and was transferred to the main cadet school at Berlin - Lichterfelde in 1917.

Stahnsdorf

In the following decades, the current site was created by the development of privately owned homes, the connection to Berlin-Lichterfelde by a tram and building a settlement for workers at the Bosch manufactures in Kleinmachnow.

Thomas Haller Cooper

Thomas Cooper was ordered to return on 1 February 1940 at the Berlin Lichterfelde Barracks, the home of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler.

Victims of the Night of the Long Knives

During the Purge itself official radio and newspaper reports only gave the names of ten people killed (the six SA-leaders executed in Stadelheim Prison on June 30, Schleicher and his wife, Karl Ernst—who was wrongly reported to have been shot in Stadelheim, whereas in fact he was shot in the barracks of Hitler's Personal Guard Unit in Berlin Lichterfelde—and Ernst Röhm).