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Brewery Falkenstein with the old buildings. Eye witnesses report secret deposits.

A giant underground glas production was planned in this tunnel system.

So-called A-tunnel at slate mine Böhlscheiben - still keeps it´s secrets!

Transport railway to the main floor of slate mine Böhlscheiben - ideal for many objects!

Upper floor of slate mine "Ausdauer" - White Russians finished secret jobs during the war.

The former STASI of GDR did hide secret papers in this old mining tunnel.

A transport of boxes arrived at slate mine "Blaues Glück" in April 45.
we investigated several places inside the mine, where they could be burried.

The former STASI often had hidden bunkers with short-wave radios under these cabins.

One of the tunnels, whose entrance got closed by the NAZIS during World War II.

The new B-tunnel of slate mine "Böhlscheiben".

View to the so-called "Staatsbruch" with it´s underground glas factory.

This tunnel leads to the underground concrete buildings of a glas company.

Main building of the slate mining office. During WWII, the slate tunnels have been used by the NAVY
as well as by the company "IG Farben"

Underground concrete rooms of the secret glas production in the slate mine "Staatsbruch".

Slate mine "Kirchberger Glück" near Saalfeld. Records of the Wirtschaftsministeriums have been stored in the dry and wide tunnel system. The mine still hides it´s secret!

This tunnel, leading down to a lower floor of the mine, has been explored by K.A.K.T.U.S. group in 1994.

Unfortunately, the rooms in the slate mine "Kühler Morgen" have been flooded. The transports which arrived during WW II. and the so-called "Aktion B III" remain mysterious.

K.A.K.T.U.S.- members found out, that a secret room is hidden behind this wall in a slate mine in Lehesten.

Secret production room of the glas company with an air tunnel in the corner.

Main air tunnel in the slate mine "Oertelsbruch" with the code name "Rotbutt" or "Laura".

Castle Lauenstein, the headquarter of the defense during WW II. Secret papers and secret inks as well as counterfeit money and passports have been produced in the cellars by graphic experts. Wilhelm Canaris and many other NAZIS have been there during the war.

The so-called "Petersloch" near Lehesten. In the corner of the area, we can find the entrances to an underground glas factory. A part of the mine still has some tunnels being closed since WW II. Huge transports arrived via railway in the last weeks of the war.

Air circulation tunnel, which leaves from one of the rooms of the glas production.

Slate mine Oertelsbruch with it´s underground V2 tube test plant. Big slate mine with a tunnel system of more than 35 miles length and hundreds of hollows with about 10000 Cubic Meters each.

Castle Schwarzburg, where the US-Army found a deposit of stolen art in the cellars at the end of the war.

Dynamite deposit in the slate mine "Kolditz". K.A.K.T.U.S. found a skull there.

Main tunnel in the slate mine "Laura". Not only this tunnel is dry and absolutely suitable for war production and as a secret deposit.

One of the tunnels at slate mine "Kolditz". K.A.K.T.U.S found out, that it was closed since the end of the war and opened it to check it for any secret deposits.

Stairway in the concrete building of the glas factory leading to the second floor of the underground complex.

So-called "Dry-Wall" in the mine. Mining workers built them to close old tunnels, but often they were misused to hide something.

Tunnel in the secret object "Kaulquappe". Closed by a blast by the Nazis and waiting for it´s reopening.

K.A.K.T.U.S. found this spectacular deposit in a mine named "Hartmann". They found out, that different people had searched for hidden boxes inside the mine. It is not absolutely clear, what the deposit contained. UPDATE: When the owner of the property, a German aristocrat, died recently, bank employees found several silver objects in the safes of the building...

Underground object "Kaulquappe" - one of the left glas production rooms.

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