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BlueBrixx Diorama: Battle of Berlin Set 103798
BlueBrixx's Diorama: Battle of Berlin is built from 2,525 blocks, measuring 48.5 Γ 23 Γ 45.3 cm assembled β a ruined urban scene with damaged buildings, vehicles and figures. Designed by Marco P., released 2020. No stickers or prints.
Seventy-five million cubic metres of rubble
That is roughly what was left of Berlin in May 1945, and it is the reason a diorama of this battle is a diorama of ruins.
The fighting ran from 16 April to 2 May and was almost entirely urban β through streets, cellars, underground stations and the sewer system, against a defence that included boys of fifteen and men of sixty in the Volkssturm. What it left behind was a city where an estimated one building in three was uninhabitable and whole districts had no standing structure above two storeys.
Clearing it was work measured in years. Much of it was done by hand, largely by women β the TrΓΌmmerfrauen β who broke bricks out of the debris with hammers, cleaned the mortar off them and stacked them for reuse.
The rubble that could not be reused had to go somewhere, and in a flat city there was nowhere. So it was piled up. The Teufelsberg in the Grunewald is an artificial hill roughly 80 metres high built from around 25 million cubic metres of Berlin's ruins, with an unfinished 1930s military college buried underneath it that proved too solid to demolish.
Berliners walk their dogs on it. It is the largest object in the city made of the city.
In the BlueBrixx range
Set 104315 is the Battle of Stalingrad diorama, by the same designer and at a similar size β the other end of the same war, and the same kind of fighting.
Specifications
Pieces: 2,525 Β· Designer: Marco P. Β· No stickers
Model dimensions: 48.5 Γ 23 Γ 45.3 cm (19.1 Γ 9.1 Γ 17.8 in)
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