Dear visitor,

most likely, you came to this page because you clicked on our "prefer English" link. Before I get to this topic, please allow me a few words about this web site in general:

This site is about abandoned industrial, military and shelter installations and other ghost places - about lostplaces in one way or the other. We don't necessarily feature places of big world history but rather those in front of one's door, where history took place as well. We believe this will be interesting and educating for historians and local residents and many other people as well. We also believe this kind of history research is much more personal, descriptive and understandable as anonymous numbers and texts in books about places far away. Our geographic focus is northern Germany, but from time to time we will also feature other areas.

Unfortunately, more and more sites appear on the net whose webmasters obviously don't really reflect about Germany's unpleasant past and the horrors of war in general and play down or even glorify these events. We strongly dissociate ourselves from these and from violence, racism, fascism, communism, terrorism and any other type of political extremism. Many of the objects and installations we describe hosted activities of the totalitarian injustice Nazi regime and in many of these places, slave labourers were kept prisoner or were even murdered there. And most of these installations served war. We shall never ever forget this and with this web site, we hope to contribute at least a bit.

Also, there's a growing number of people breaking into these installations, spraying walls and vandalizing. We also clearly dissociate ourselves from these activities. This site is not meant as a travel guide for adventurers and thus we don't publish any detailed maps.

For given reason, we'd like to make clear that all this is a spare time, amateur historian effort on a non-profit, non-political basis. We do not sell anything.

we are very sorry we cannot provide an english version of this web site yet. We are doing this in our spare time and it would be a lot of work to translate each and every page - time we'd rather put in our research. We hope you understand this. If you want to ask our community a question or discuss a certain topic in english, you are welcome to do so.

However, we suggest you should at least try an automatic online translation service like BabelFish. We know, these machine-made translations are very poor, but we believe it's better than nothing. A small advantage is that Babelfish translates from German to a couple of other languages, not only to english. Simply give it a try!

If you want to contact us, please don't hesitate to write in english.