Waldsiedlung

Waldsiedlung (German for "Forest settlement") was the secure housing zone for the leaders of the German Democratic Republic in Bernau bei Berlin, Brandenburg from 1960 to 1989. Waldsiedlung housed the most senior party members of the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in relative luxury near Wandlitz, 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of East Berlin, with surrounding areas off-limits to all ordinary citizens.

Security was provided by soldiers of the Felix Dzerzhinsky Guards Regiment.

Nowadays, the community is treated by Germans as a symbol of the elite in the SED party when it ruled East Germany.

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