LOL Dave there were a lot of buildings that were used by the Germans in WWII that have an interesting history. I got off the plane at Rhine Main Air Base in Jul 76 and was bussed to a building that had been a Gestapo prison. There were still bullet pock marks in the walls outside the building. Spent the night there while they decided where to send me (SP4 at the time). On the way to Stuttgart I met a German who told me about fighting in North Africa and being a POW in La doing work release on a farm. He was the only German WWII vet I met that admitted that he fought against us. All the other would swear up and down they fought the Russians.
For those who don't know a lot of German farmers home places are in a small town or village. The farms go out from the house/bard in a pie shape. That dates back to when they needed to do that for self defense. Some of the older places have the house and barn in the same building....or they did the last time we did field exercises in the Germans back yards. Very interesting to see how they farm.
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