Nefertiti in the Flack Tower

[Max]

I was looking for this

and came across
[youtube]https://youtu.be/6jgvkzD8d3k[/youtube] ***
https://worldwarwings.com/blasted-bombe ... scratched/

*** How do you get the actual video to show here?

[Halfdan S.]

Interesting ... take it was to do with the Art that was stored in the Flakbunkers?

Regards
Halfdan S.

[Waleed Y. Majeed]

Is this the poem? https://standpointmag.co.uk/text-june-0 ... ames-poem/
If so not quite correct as she was moved to the Merkers saltmines in Thüringen before the russians got hands on her. From there to Wiesbaden and did not return to Berlin until 1956.

Waleed

[Max]

I was looking for the collection of poems [Nefertiti in the Flack Tower] by the recently late Clive James.
I eventually found his web site with poem.
https://www.clivejames.com/nefertiti-in ... -poem.html
The title, mentioning flak towers, had caught my attention.
James died a few days ago; his humour and scholarship will be missed .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_James
Walleed - you said

If so not quite correct as she was moved to the Merkers saltmines in Thüringen before the russians got hands on her. From there to Wiesbaden and did not return to Berlin until 1956.

I guess that is an example of poetic licence.

[Max]

Is this the poem? https://standpointmag.co.uk/text-june-0 ... ames-poem/
If so not quite correct as she was moved to the Merkers saltmines in Thüringen before the russians got hands on her. From there to Wiesbaden and did not return to Berlin until 1956.

Waleed

The poem is correct in stating that the Nefertiti bust was stored in a flak tower.
It was the Tiergarten Flak Tower
Maybe it's wrong in suggesting that it spent the entire war in the tower.
It was of course later sent to Thüringen

As the bombing continued, the facility was also used to store art treasures to keep them safe. The Zoo tower in particular stored the Kaiser Wilhelm coin collection,[4] the Nefertiti bust, the disassembled Pergamon Altar from Pergamon, and other major treasures of the Berlin museums.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_Tower