Bearing coral
Lager Koralle (also: Object Koralle ) was the code name of a military facility north of Bernau near Berlin , in which the command center of the High Command of the Navy (OKM) was located between 1943 and 1945 .
history
The property was initially intended as a naval news school and was only later named "Coral". Construction work began in 1939 in a heavily forested area two kilometers northwest of Lobetal , north of Bernau. The site originally belonged to the Hope Valley Institutions .
Due to the increasing danger from aerial bombs, it was decided to move the command center of the High Command of the Navy (OKM) from Berlin to a safer area. On January 30, 1943, it moved to the Koralle camp. A little later, the main radio station of the commander of the submarines (BdU) was set up on site. This means that all communications for the submarine war were received in the station's bomb-proof communications bunker.
After the advance of the Red Army and the encirclement of Berlin, the order was issued on April 19, 1945 to relocate to the temporary accommodation facility Forelle near Plön and eight days later to Flensburg - Mürwik .
After the war ended, a large part of the facility was blown up by Soviet troops. The ruins are still in place.
The underground bunker and Dönitz 's house have been preserved to this day.
construction
There was an anti-aircraft bunker, an elevated bunker and an underground bunker . The headquarters of the OKM operated in the underground bunker. There was also an officers ' mess, barracks, several extinguishing ponds and other smaller objects. Some of the buildings were connected to one another underground. The Koralle camp was equipped with numerous telecommunication systems.
Trivia
- The 9th chapter in Lothar Günther Buchheim's book The Fortress is called "Koralle" and takes place in the Koralle camp:
“ It is hard to imagine that the submarine warfare in all seven seas will be waged from this little pine forest in the Brandenburg region. "Coral" - whoever might have come up with this name. Coral of all things for a headquarters under the pines! "
- The naval officer Berthold Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg also had an official apartment in Lager Koralle . In preparation for the assassination attempt on Hitler, the "oath" drafted by his brother Claus for the "time after" was dictated.
literature
- Hans J. Richter, Wolf-Dieter Holz: Code name "Coral". Chronicle of the central naval radio control center for submarine operations in World War II. Jung, Zella-Mehlis et al. 2002, ISBN 978-3-930588-58-9 .
Web links
- Berliner Kurier: Rediscovered: "Lager Koralle" The forgotten headquarters of the Nazis - Source: http://www.berliner-kurier.de/23899066 © 2017
- Website for the T750 bunker in the Koralle property http://www.truppenmannschaftsbunker.de/objekte/objektefortsetzung/bernau/bu.html
- Photos from the underground bunker in the Koralle camp http://www.lostareas.de/Bunker/Bunker_Koralle/Bunker_Tiefbunker_Koralle_Lobetal_Bernau.htm
Coordinates: 52 ° 44 ′ 20 ″ N , 13 ° 34 ′ 27 ″ E