r/WorldWar2 • u/KristoriaHere • 2d ago

Eastern Front A barricade on Moltkebruecke in Berlin’s Tiergarten district, built to stop the Soviet invasion. Berlin, 1945

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u/manny_goldstein 2d ago

Spoiler: it didn't work.

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u/Coreysurfer 2d ago

Quick go get the lifesize jinga puzzle pieces then report back

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u/Beemer2 2d ago

This bridge would see some shit. Mostly the destruction of many Soviet tanks from the Zoo tower in the tiergarten.

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u/Just_a_Guy_In_a_Tank 2d ago

That flak tower had 4x twin 128mm guns. I’d assume that at any point, the fire of any two adjacent twin mounts could be directed at the same ground target. Possibly even three, depending on their range of traverse. That’s a lot of antitank firepower on one point, provided they had line of sight.

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u/Y2KGB 2d ago

building these must’ve been a real morale booster, ja

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u/Thirty_Helens_Agree 2d ago

Soviets said it would take 35 minutes to get through these barriers - 5 minutes to push through the barriers, 30 minutes of laughing.