Any books-stories about Experiances in Flak Towers?

[dan h]

I am going to be in Berlin and Hamburg in July and plan to visit the remaining Flak tower sites. I don't know of any memoirs or writings about serving in the flak towers or any books recording experiences there or even an artillery or flak mans service. Anyone know of any? I am guessing most who served there did not servive to record any experiences. I have the book about the towers themselves that was written back in the 70's but nothing current.
Dan h

[KLMKsunbunny]

I think the Berlinner Unterwelten have collected oral histories of those who served in the Berlin towers, and they present one of those stories on the Humboldthain tour. i had a conversation with one of the historians there once asking about specific units that served there, and he said they were planning a book. Sadly most of the more comprehensive books are in German.

http://shop.berliner-unterwelten.de/die-flakturme.html

This only a small book published to accompany their tours, but is available in English, and is worth getting. It contains a couple of pages on the garrison there:

https://www.amazon.com/Flak-Towers-M...rds=flak+tower

Flak tower related items occasionally come up for sale; so i guess its possible to draw conclusions from those. A few years ago i missed out on a set of photos taken by one of the soldiers serving on a tower in Hamburg. i have a soldbuch to a member of the Luftwaffe killed in the vicinity of the Humbolthain flak tower on the 30th April 1945, its possible he was involved in the defence of the flak tower, but i will probably never know for sure.

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...=893697&page=4

Forum member Chris235 also has a soldbuch to a member of a flak tower crew, maybe if we ask nicely he will show it..!

[dan h]

Flak towers

Thanks for the reply, I plan to use the Berliner Underground tour in Berlin. I will check out their books for sure.
Dan h