The last 2.5 miles of hitlers autobahns is getting a face lift after 80 years of wear and tear!
The last surviving stretch of German motorway built by Adolf Hitler is to disappear under a slick cover of new tarmac after finally succumbing to potholes over 80 years.
The German/Poland border crossing on the A11 motorway Photo: ALAMY
By Matthew Day
2:11PM BST 02 Oct 2013
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Built by the ■■■■ regime as part of a programme to get Germans back to work, the 2.5-mile stretch of the A11 motorway lies to the north-east of Berlin, linking the German capital with the now-Polish city of Szczecin, which, before the war, lay in the Reich and was called Stettin.
The original 82-foot-long slabs of concrete survived the war and the following decades but are now succumbing to the effects of time, the weather and increased traffic between Poland and Germany. Running repairs have kept the road operating for a number of years but now it requires resurfacing.
“The condition of the roadway is unbearable,” Frank Gotzmann, director of the nearby town of Gartz, told the newspaper Welt. "Everyone drives very carefully on it. They even drive in the left lane because the right-hand one is very bad.
“Maybe they should make it a World Heritage site,” he added, as a joke.
Road signs warn drivers of the damaged surface and the speed is restricted to 60mph, but the road still claims a heavy price in punctures and damaged suspensions.
if you are nostalgic and want to see signs of hitler come to brid
the amount of walls with cut off railings for the war effort is astounding.then there’s a load of pill boxes still there just in case
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