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Visit May 2008 - Block 40 terracotta figures.   According to George Englefield-Bishop, (Click to see.), these barrack blocks were built in 1936 as an old peoples home.   They still had the alarm and call systems in the rooms and corridors in those days.   George understands that this was a cover for their real future use as military accommodation during the Luftwaffe re-armament just before WWII.
H block 40, (click to see 40 on station plan), had wonderful bas-reliefs, in, he thinks terracotta, surrounding the door way of each room showing scenes of the German army in action.   He was taken in to see them and always wanted to go back and take some pictures but whoever it was living in that block at that time seemed an unfriendly bunch so he never did.   We had hoped to get some photographs during our visit in August 2006 but we found that the Blocks had been renovated and could not find the decorations.   Now we have some pictures!   (Thanks to Lt Col Joachim Linke.)
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