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Osterloog transmitting station

Okay, kiddo, do you remember playing with walkie talkies? You know how you have to push a button to talk and then let it go when you're done? Well, a transmitting station is kind of like a really big, powerful walkie talkie that sends messages over a long distance.

The Osterloog Transmitting Station is a special transmitting station that was built a long time ago in Germany. It was really big and tall, kind of like a skyscraper, and it had antennas sticking out of the top, like long metal cones.

The station was used to send messages, like radio shows and weather reports, to people all across Europe. But it was also used for something very important during World War II. The people who worked at the station sent secret messages to German submarines out in the ocean, telling them where to go and what to do.

The Osterloog station was so powerful that it could send messages all the way to North Africa, which is very far away. But because it was so important during the war, the station was bombed many times by the Allies, who were trying to stop the messages from being sent.

Today, the Osterloog Transmitting Station is still there, but it's not used anymore. People can visit it and learn about its history, but it's just a big old building now, without all the cool equipment that it used to have.