Dark chapter of the GDR: Train accident by Trebbin now unveiled!
Dark chapter of the GDR: Train accident by Trebbin now unveiled!
A dark chapter of the history of the GDR, which has been hidden for decades, now comes to light. On March 1, 1962, a devastating train accident happened near Trebbin that the public should never reach. Over 60 years later, MDR television reports on this tragedy, which took place at the time of the Cold War when the Soviet army in Germany had a striking presence. A recently published article by Coolis.de highlights the dark backgrounds.
The region around Jüterbog was one of the most frequented areas in Germany during the Cold War. On the day of the accident, a large -scale maneuver with around 40,000 Soviet soldiers took place. A tank battalion of the 248th rifle regiment was on the way back to the barracks in Potsdam. The tanks were loaded onto a special train, while the soldiers had to travel in woodwaggons standing. On the evening of the accident there was a disaster when a fully occupied express train of the German Reichsbahn at 120 km/h put on the outdated special train, which was only 60 km/h.
The misfortune and its consequences
A cause of the accident was the unexplained replacement of the turmening of a tank, which swung its cannon tube to the side. The cannon tube first hit the steam locomotive of the express train, tore off the water pump and then led to a direct impact on one of the wagons, which killed a passenger. And it did not remain with this one victim: according to wikipedia.org reported eyewitnesses of up to 90 soldiers immediately killed, although the official figures were severely obscured.
The chaos at the scene of the accident was catastrophic. Firefighters had massive difficulties to reach over 100 injuries because they were stopped by Russian attention. Many of the Soviet soldiers were trapped and urgently needed help. The supply options were severely restricted, for example as Ursula Köhler, a sister student, helped in the Luckenwalde Clinic, while many soldiers were on mattresses in the hallway - beds were simply not available.
a secreted trauma
The cause of the accident, which is related to the suspected “exercise” of the soldiers during the journey, was never extensively examined. Until the final deduction of the Soviet armed forces from Germany in 1994, the accident was largely undefined and the victims were forgotten. The incident is one of the many examples of the lack of transparency about military incidents in the GDR. According to frwiki.wiki This incident is one of the most serious rail accidents in Germany.
The shocking details of this accident are not only an outcry of the memory of lost life, but also an urgent indication of how important it is to work up the stories of the past. Because as the supply gaps and the cover -up of this misfortune show, shadows in history still remain.
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