Ordensburg Vogelsang

This is a place steeped in history that also feels a little gloomy. But its transformation from the Nazi cadre forge, via a military training area inaccessible for decades, to a valuable memorial in a wonderful national park is definitely worth a visit.

Unfortunately I have only one photo from the old swimming pool, where the elite was trained for the Olympic Games. Very worth seeing the complete system with the information from past times. In the mind's eye you can see the past alive.

Ordensburg Vogelsang is a former educational centre for future National Socialist leaders between 1936 and 1939, and became a military training area after WW II. New headquarter of Eifel National Park in North Rhine-Westphalia, the landmarked and completely preserved estate has been open to visitors since 1 January 2006. It is one of the largest architectural relics of National Socialism. The gross area of the landmarked buildings is 50,000 m².
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordensburg_Vogelsang
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS-Ordensburg_Vogelsang

In Nazi Germany, the NS-Ordensburgen ("National Socialist Order Castles"), also called Schulungsburgen, were schools developed for elite Nazi military echelons. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS-Ordensburgen
Each student attended all four institutions in sequence, for specialty training, finishing in Marienburg for training that included live-fire military exercises.