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I was in Europe a few weeks ago and one of the coolest things I saw was this anti-aircraft tower or flak tower from World War two all of this footage I captured in 4k with my DJ I'm addict Rome some of you guys might recognize this tower from the Medal of Honor video game where you get sucked out of a destroyed airplane parachute down onto the top of the tower itself the towers could fire 8,000 anti-aircraft rounds per minute and had an effective range of about eight miles this tower is legitimately a real place right here in Vienna the largest city in Austria it's a 54 metre tall anti-aircraft tower that ironically is just about the same height as the Statue of Liberty herself Hitler commissioned eight of these complexes during the Second World War to help protect his cities against the Allied air attacks the ones you're looking at right now was built just after 1940 if you remember Hitler is that delusional lunatic who discriminated against people based purely on their religion this particular complex in al Garten has two towers a square tower that held the observation and radio equipment and the round tower that held all of the anti-air firepower the sheer size of these towers is impressive they also doubled as bunkers to help protect civilians during an attack at one point during a battle in Berlin the tower held an estimated 30,000 civilians inside some very terrible things happen during World War two contrary to the video game know these two towers and a guard never saw much action the Allied forces tended to avoid the areas where the towers were located through obvious reasons I'm sure they wanted to keep their airplanes from looking like Swiss cheese today the towers are closed off and in serious need to repair they are way too enormous to be cost-effectively torn down since the walls are three and a half meters thick that's 11 feet of solid concrete so here they still stand today as a reminder of the past a memorial for mistakes or a physical monument that hopes current world leaders can learn from history and not build ginormous unnecessary concrete structures I'd like to fill more drone videos like this in the future and mix them in with my regular tear downs and durability tests so hit that thumbs up button if you enjoyed seeing history or if you learn something new and I'll keep the videos coming thanks for watching I'll see you