The Beelitz-Heilstätten Sanatorium was once a huge complex of 60 buildings, built in the late 19th century near Berlin for the treatment and rehabilitation of tuberculosis patients. Then the sanatorium was converted into a military hospital for the German imperial army during the First World War. Here, in 1916, young Adolf Hitler was healing his thigh wound received in the Battle of the Somme. In 1945, after the surrender of Germany, Beelitz-Heilstätten became the largest Soviet military hospital abroad.
After the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Germany, they tried to privatize the complex, but to no avail. Today several of its sections are used as a neurological rehabilitation center and as a research center for Parkinson's disease. The rest of the former gigantic sanatorium was abandoned. The absence of man led to the fact that the complex was "captured" by trees and plants, gradually turning it into a kind of ghost town.
The once clean walls of the sanatorium are covered in graffiti. Now these walls silently watch the gradual decay and decay of buildings.
Wild grapes and other climbing plants are attacking the buildings, and now the yard looks like a miniature forest.
Once this place was a witness to the battle of life and death, today it looks like a post-apocalyptic picture.
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In these dilapidated rooms, the wounded Adolf Hitler was treated.
Here, in 1990, the leader of the GDR Erich Honecker was treated for liver cancer.
Lonely bath in a lonely room.
Old-old board indicating the total number of patients and their number by department; the dilapidated staircase clearly needs renovation.
The tiles are falling off the walls, the beds are rusting, the bright lights of the operating room are off.
The forest is actively advancing on the territory of the Beelitz-Heilstätten sanatorium.
The sanatorium, which consists of 60 buildings, had its own butcher's shop, restaurant, bakery and a huge laundry.
Author: Marina Pavlova