Alatsee
Clear alpine lake hiding a deep purple layer of sulfur bacteria and relics of wartime aircraft tests.
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This guide to the Alatsee near Füssen follows the people who worked on this mountain lake during the Second World War: technicians from a Stuttgart aviation laboratory, and the wooden night fighter they were sent here to study. It touches on wartime shortages, plywood and glue, and the postwar rumours of sunken gold. Best heard from the shoreline path, where you can scan the water's edge.
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