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Black Box Files | The Trebbin Disaster (1962)

In March 1962, one of the deadliest rail incidents occurred in East Germany and yet for decades after, not many people even knew it happened. Near the rural village of Trebbin south of Berlin, a huge soviet freight convoy comprising T-55 tanks was steaming north when a southbound express train collided with a tank barrel that had rotated into the trackway.

Not until the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification would witnesses come forward to retell the story, providing accounts of the horrific casualties, the heroic actions and the veil of secrecy that descended on Soviet orders.

This documentary will not just discuss the immediate events of March 1st, but also explore the historic context of East Germany in the 1960’s, and the towns and bases that were directly related to the events of that evening

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