This place has been built as barracks, cause the Nazi regime was going to use it in this way after the games. The village consisted of a reception building, approximately 140 single-storey and five two-story residential buildings, a large dining house, a kitchen house, the Hindenburg House, the Commandant's House, a sports hall, a swimming pool, a sauna and a doctor and hospital. The dining House of Nations consisted of 38 dining rooms, each serving a nation to taking the food and socializing. In Hindenburghaus there was entertainment.
After the Olympics were housed a school Infantry and Infantry Training Regiment . The eating-house of nations was as a military hospital , field hospital set up called Olympia. This use had already been considered in the design of the building: In the second and third floor large terraces were created, to which the patient could be pushed together.
After the war, the retired Soviet Army an on-site and used it until the withdrawal in 1992
It is now well preserved and it's possible to get inside the building with a guided tour.
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