Adolf Hitler Lager Forst Zinna
Build in 1934 during the early days of the Third Reich.
Although all written documents have since gone missing, the first troops stationed at the Waldlager Forst Zinna / Adolf Hitler Lager were the SS. The Artillery School Jüterbog used the Lager to set up observation divisions for the artillery units from 1935 onwards.
From 1939, the Adolf Hitler Lager was home to the “Lehrstab T” which was in charge of training tracked vehicle drivers (which makes sense for a Panzerkaserne). Around the same time, a new department for the Sturmgeschütz-Waffe (which was developed in Jüterbog) was set up at the Lager.
Inmmediatly after the war the Soviets moved in an took over Forst Zinna and used it as an displaced person camp primary used for inmates of the Nazi concentration camps.
The Socialist Unity Party of Germany founded the Deutsche Verwaltungsakademie in 1947 and used the former Wehrmacht Kaserne in Forst Zinna.
The Soviets booted out the East Germans from the former Adolf Hitler Lager in Forst Zinna in 1953 and moved in their own troops. The first soviet troops to move in was the Staff of the 18th Guards Tank Army - renamed in 1972 to Staff of the 3rd. Guards Mechanised Army. Again, makes sense to move Tank units to a former Panzerkaserne.
In January 19, 1988, one of the worst railway accidents in the GDR occured in Forst Zinna.
A 36 ton T-64A tank accidently came to a stop on the railway tracks.
The soldiers heard the train coming and fled the vehicle.
The approaching D-716 express train, travelling at a speed of 120 kilometers an hour and with 450 people on board crashed into the tank at full speed.
The two train drivers died immediately. 6 passengers were killed, and 33 severely injured.
The GDR and the Soviet military agreed that the two persons responsible for the accident should answer before a Soviet military court.
Their fate remains unknown - though it was rumoured at the time they there were shot.
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