Berlinka
Partially built Nazi German road project
Summary
Berlinka is the informal Polish and Russian name given to sections of the unfinished Reichsautobahn Berlin-Königsberg, which was a pre-World War II German Reichsautobahn project to connect Berlin with Königsberg in East Prussia. In the late 1930s, the sections near these two cities were finished, but not the larger section in between. The German demand in 1939 to run this road across the Polish Corridor with extraterritorial status and Poland's refusal to allow this were used by Nazi Germany as a pretext to start a war. During the war, the Germans did not continue construction on a large scale and the route was never built. After the war, the German Democratic Republic, the Polish People's Republic and the Soviet Union's Kaliningrad Oblast inherited the remnants.
Originally created by Piotrus
11/17/2007, 6:54:37 PM
Modified
1/1/2026, 6:31:25 AM
Recent revisions
[[WP:SD40]]; See [[Wikipedia:Database reports/Long short descriptions]]
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