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The Mystery Of Goering And The British Officers Mess
In November, the Army is closing Princess Royal Barracks in Gutersloh - a camp that was once a Royal Air Force Station.
But during the Second World War it was a German fighter base and apparently the haunt of Nazi Germany’s second most powerful man, Hermann Goering.
Princess Royal Barracks Officers Mess opened in 1937 as a club for German fighter pilots.
Goering would apparently boast to pilots of his heroics as a self-proclaimed fighter ace.
The Goering Room as it’s now known is dominated by images of the man.
There are exhibits of Nazi German paraphernalia.
On the wall are Messerschmitt guns unearthed at the base in the 1960s.
The German authorities will take charge of the Officers Mess building in November.
Pictures and items now in the Goering room will eventually go on display in an exhibition.
But the fate of the room itself and of its famous beam is unclear.
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