Iraqi Embassy - East Berlin

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lilli

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The goverment of the GDR and Iraq seemed to have been fast friends after Iraq became the first country to recognise East Germany as a country in its own right in 1969. What better way to cement a friendship than an embassy. They moved in in 1974 and used the embassy regulary to nip over to the west to do naughty things ..... this isnt an assumption, in 1980 the secretary of the embassy and the head of Iraqi intelligence were caught red handed collecting a suitcase full of explosives!!

After the reunification of Germany the new goverment ordered the Iraqi's out in January 1991 due to the (1st) gulf war and you get the feeling that they didnt even bother packing or cleaning their desks out before shutting the door!

Its truly fecked inside, burnt trashed and smashed but I loved it!



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Nice one guys, thanks for sharing, especially loving the last one lilli, of the chair / typewriter. :mrgreen:
 
Great history, explore and pics you two. I saw this on your website KingRat, and was really intrigued by it. Love the pic of the photos on the wall Lili. Cheers. :)
 
Liking these pix very much chaps. We had no idea about these sites you've been reporting when we went over this year. We did Beelitz and Krampnitz and Kinder Krankenhausen. Berlin just has so many über cool sites!
 
Liking these pix very much chaps. We had no idea about these sites you've been reporting when we went over this year. We did Beelitz and Krampnitz and Kinder Krankenhausen. Berlin just has so many über cool sites!

Its quite amazing the stuff round Berlin, everytime Ithink weve done it all we keep finding more that makes us want to go back again :D Think we have enough for another trip, so I had better stop looking too much :p
 

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