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As part of German rearmament, another troop camp was built on the edge of the military training area in 1934. In the chronological order after the Old Camp and the New Camp, this camp was initially called Camp III. Other place names were Waldlager Jüterbog / Forst Zinna and Waldlager Forst Zinna near Jüterbog. Soon after, the place was given the official name Adolf Hitler Camp. In addition to the actual troop camp, a separate provisions store and the construction of a train station (1937) rounded off the complex. Until the station was completed, rail traffic was handled via the Grüna-Kloster Zinna station. According to contemporary witnesses (there are no written sources for this), the first user of the camp was the SS. From autumn 1935, the Jüterbog Artillery School used the camp to set up observation units for the artillery troops. From the beginning of the 1940s, the Jüterbog Artillery School's teaching staff T, which was responsible for training drivers for tracked vehicles, was housed in the camp. There was also a department for the assembly of the assault gun weapon developed in Jüterbog. In the last weeks of the war, parts of the RAD Infantry Division Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, which was formed in Jüterbog, were quartered here. Immediately after the end of the Second World War, the Soviet occupying forces operated a camp for displaced persons here. Citizens of various countries were concentrated here - often against their will - and then deported in collective transports to their countries of origin. From 1947, the German Administrative Academy (DVA) "Walter Ulbricht", founded by decision of the SED, used the buildings created by the Wehrmacht. In addition to the actual barracks and technical areas, these included cinemas and theaters, restaurants, and sports facilities in a pleasing architecture in the middle of a park-like landscape, and offered ideal external conditions for an academy. After being used by the SED, the site was taken over by the Soviet Army again. In the 1970s, a new facility was built for a construction battalion. The military area included several administrative buildings, commercial buildings, a cinema and a zoo. On January 19, 1988, one of the worst railway accidents in the GDR caused by Soviet military personnel occurred in Forst Zinna. An express train collided with a Soviet Army tank that was standing on the tracks. Six people died and 33 were injured. Most of the military facilities and buildings had already been removed as part of the conversion. At the end of 2007, the total demolition of Forst Zinna began. A previous inventory showed that there was more than 500,000 cubic meters of enclosed space on the site. It is planned to completely unseal the area and renaturalize it. One of the goals of the demolition measures is to keep possible commercial areas free for the future. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forst_Z... Music: 1st Song: The Dark Side Of Me Artist: Whitesand Video link: • Video Music: 2nd Song: Legend of The King Artist: Whitesand Video link: • Video Music: 3. Le Silence des Ruines - L' Aube