Former AVUS (Autobahn) auto race track and Keerans Range (Berlin)

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Prior to World War II, Germany's Nazi government planned to expand the famous AVUS (Autobahn) auto race track, constructed shortly after the First World War. To make the deadly oval shaped race way less dangerous, large banked U-turns were planned. Huge 50-feet high piles of sandy Berlin earth were pushed into place to create the correct high-speed race track curves. A small (1:100) scale model of the planned south curve was created. That model, covered by dirt, is still visible after all these years. World War II interrupted construction of the expanded race track which was later abandoned. Finding the area ideal for a rifle range, U.S. Army occupation troops used the huge earthen banks as back stops and named the former auto race way construction site "Keerans Range."
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