Material: Unknown
Eagles: The Soviets removed the eagles and swastikas before the Americans arrived. There appears to be at least 2 examples of this eagle located on a couple of the SS Leibstandarte buildings.
Location: Lichterfelde Kaserne, southwest of the Berlin downtown area, was an old Prussian cadet training school. The Nazis took it over in 1933, and it became the headquarters of Hitler’s body guard regiment, the Leibstandarte-SS “Adolf Hitler.” Additionally, newer buildings were built to serve as the headquarters for the Leibstandarte.
Interesting fact: In the 1930s -approx 1937- Bernhard Bleeker created two huge concrete SS ‘Rottenführer Statues’ (also called ‘The Eternal Corporals’) which flanked the entrance at the Finkensteinallee of the Lichterfelde Kaserne. When the Russians took over the Lichterfelde barracks, they cut off the heads of the Eternal Corporals; the Americans later encased their bodies in concrete, so that they are now hidden inside the rectangular blocks at the main gate to the Lichterfelde barracks
Starting in 1947, the barracks bore the name of Lieutenant General Frank Maxwell Andrews (1884–1943), the former commander of US Armed Forces in Europe, who died when his B-24 crashed during an inspection flight over Iceland. Following the Americans’ withdrawal, the site was redeveloped and has served as a German Federal Archives location since 1995.
Following the Americans’ withdrawal, the site was redeveloped and has served as a German Federal Archives location since 1995.
