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As one of the only three urban cantons in Germany (Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen), Berlin is divided into 12 districts in terms of administrative divisions (23 districts before 2001), and under these district-level administrative units, it is divided into a number of sub-districts, which can be roughly understood as "×× street in the ×× district of Berlin" according to the equivalent translation of Chinese administrative divisions, and the Karlshorst introduced in this article is a street-level administrative unit located in the southernmost district of Lichtenberg in the east of Berlin. The reason why such a projectile land is written separately is entirely due to the fact that the region also has an important historical position in the history of World War II.
(Photo 1: Location of Karlhorst)
Karlshorst does not have a long history, and in the 1820s the area was also owned by a Junker landowner named Karl von Trescor, and the name Karlshorst also derived from the name of the manor house trescorded here. Over the decades and events, by 1901 the area had gradually developed into a small community, and was officially documented as "Karlshorst", and in 1902 Karlshorst built a railway station to Berlin, and the convenient transportation made this small community prosperous and became the back garden of Germany's wealthy class.
(Picture 2: Restaurant where Nazi Germany signed its instrument of surrender on May 8, 1945)
From 1936 to 1938, in order to meet its own needs for training military personnel, Germany built an engineer school in this quiet but convenient community, dedicated to the training of professional military command personnel, the infrastructure of this newly built military academy was also first-class in the world at that time, the auditorium, indoor swimming pool, indoor equestrian field for training cavalry, large motorcycle garage and other infrastructure are readily available, and even the school also contains a solid bunker. This makes the area an excellent place for military command.
(Photo 3: German Keitel Marshal signing a instrument of surrender)
By April 1945, the Third Reich was on the verge of collapse, the First Belorussian Front under Zhukov's command had advanced to the eastern outskirts of Berlin, and the well-equipped Karlshorst had been chosen as Zhukov's front command post, and the Third Reich was on the verge of collapse. On 30 April 1945, the Nazi party leader chose suicide in despair, and on 7 May, Hitler's successor, Dönitz, declared his unconditional surrender, and on 8 May, representatives of the three services led by Marshal Keitel (Field Marshal William Keitel, Admiral Hans Georg von Friedberg, Air Force Admiral Hans Jürgen Stopf) went to the restaurant at the Karlshorst Engineer School and signed an unconditional surrender to the Soviet Union and the Allies, and the European anti-fascist war was declared victorious.
(Photo 4: The "German-Russian Museum" in Karlshorst)
Karlshorst became the seat of the Soviet military command in Germany from the end of the war, and in 1949, the German Democratic Republic was established, and Karlshorst became the site of the 6th Independent Motorized Infantry Brigade (also known as the "Berlin Brigade") of the Soviet Union. In 1994, with the withdrawal of Soviet troops, this small community that held the last moments of the fall of the Third Reich was built with a museum that tells the story of the most tragic period of human history.
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