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Johanna Urbancik

German Armed Forces special unit trains in Berlin underground

The German Guard Battalion trains for several days to defend Berlin. Just in case. Name of the mock war: ‘Bollwerk Bärlin III’

On this night, the soldiers are practising a scenario that the commander describes as ‘very realistic’ in a possible defence situation and which meets the special requirements of close-quarters and urban combat in a metropolis like Berlin.

A subway train that transports German soldiers is attacked by enemy forces shortly before Jungfernheide station and forcibly brought to a halt.

The situation is unclear at first; the advancing soldiers must defend themselves against the attackers and evacuate their injured comrades from the narrow shaft. It is the first ever Bundeswehr exercise in an underground station.

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