During World War II, the Demag-Panzerwerke subcamp of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp was located here.

[3] They performed forced labor in the workshops of the German Reichsbahn and the DEMAG tank factory in Albrechtshof.

Falkensee is located on the northwestern edge of Berlin in the western part of the Warsaw-Berlin glacial valley and in the Zehdenick-Spandau Havel lowlands.

The "Scheinwerferberg" in the north of the town is a young geomorphological inland dune that was formed at the end of the Weichselian glaciation, and is 16 m high (50 m above sea level).

It is named after the anti-aircraft searchlights that were installed during World War II as part of the Berlin air defences.

After World War II, Falkensee's population shrunk due to the relatively isolated position "behind" West Berlin, seen from the GDR capital.