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1. Flakscheinwerfer

   2017-06-07 16:32:33 UTC

   At night, Berlin first system defence was based mainly in the use of anti-aircraft searchlights (Flakscheinwerfer). Hundreds of them were positioned around- and in the city, and their task were to find and track enemy bombers, showing them to the anti-aircraft batteries at night [A German Flakscheinwerfer in…

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2. The defences – Air detection (I)

   2017-05-26 16:08:55 UTC

   The Nazis developed a complex net to defend the Reich and occupied Europe from air raids. This superb detection system relayed from observation of incoming attacks to the latest and more sophisticated elements of electronic radar and radio to track enemy planes and to assist the AA (anti-aircraft) guns in…

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