The most surprising thing to me about these flak Towers is when they were built. I don’t know when exactly but I remember seeing a photo of the Giant Wurzburg radar on top of one of them (taken with a long-range lens from the US Embassy, so presumably before the US declared war on Germany after Pearl Harbor in December 1941).
So assuming that the tower was completed and radar installed in December 1941 when was planning and construction started?
So much for the “No enemy aircraft will fly over the Reich” speech by Hermann ‘Meyer’!
‘Am 10. September 1940 wurde auf persönlichen Befehl Hitlers mit der Planung von Flaktürmen begonnen, die den Berliner Innenstadtbereich gegen Bombenangriffe schützen sollten. Im Tiergarten und im Volkspark Friedrichshain wurden die Türme I und II errichtet, den Flakturm Humboldthain betonierte man von Oktober 1941 bis April 1942.’
They started planning 10th September 1940 and the construction period was October 1941 till April 1942.
http://berliner-unterwelten.de/flakturm-humboldthain.50.0.html
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