Cold War West German Nuclear Monitoring System (24)

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Ian Sanders

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🗓️ 25 August 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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West Germany had a number of Nuclear Warning Bunkers dotted around the country similar to the Royal Observer Corps in the UK. Mirko Krumm describes the organisation West German Civil Defence and the preservation of his bunker near Bremen. Support the project! https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/ Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/ColdWarPod Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/coldwarpod/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/coldwarconversations/ Youtube https://youtube.com/@ColdWarConversations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.0	Welcome to episode 24 of Cold War Conversations.
0:51.5	In today's episode, we're talking about the Cold War nuclear monitoring
0:56.7	system in West Germany. Today's guest is Miko Krum, who contacted me via our Facebook page. He manages
1:07.7	the preservation of a warning bunker in West Germany.
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1:46.2	PayPal.m.m.m. slash Cold War Conversations. Back to today's episode and a warm welcome to
1:55.8	Mirko Krum. So today on Cold War Conversations, we have Mirko Crum, who contacted me through our
2:06.7	Facebook discussion group.
2:09.5	And I was intrigued by what he was talking about on Facebook because he had some knowledge
2:16.4	of the West German nuclear warning
2:18.7	system and a particular bunker as well. So welcome, Mirko, to Cold War Conversations. Yeah,
2:27.2	hi, Ian. I'm glad to be here. Great. Can you just tell us a little bit about yourself?
2:35.0	Yeah, of course. My name is Mirko Grum.
2:37.0	I'm 28 years old and I live near Bremen in Western Germany.
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