Führerbunker of Berlin

Visited: 20 March 2011

It was in this subterranean bunker where Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Braun spent the last few weeks of the war and it was here their lives came to an end on April 30, 1945. The Führer's Bunker was located beneath the garden of the old Reich Chancellery building at Wilhelmstraße 77, north of the new Reich Chancellery building, Voßstraße 6.

Since 1945, government authorities have been consistently concerned about the site of the bunker evolving into a Neo-Nazi shrine. The strategy for avoiding this has largely been to ensure the surroundings remain anonymous. Until June 2008, the location of the bunker was not marked in any way. The immediate area was occupied by a small Chinese restaurant and shopping mall while the emergency exit point for the bunker (which had been in the Chancellery gardens) was occupied by a parking lot.

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Some of the corridors of the bunker still exist today,
although now in disuse and sealed from the public

After the war, the remains of the Chancellery were demolished by orders of the Soviet occupation forces. Parts of the building's marble walls were said to be used to renovate the nearby war-damaged Mohrenstraße U-Bahn station and/or to build the Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park [Refer to Next Photo Post].

References: Wikipedia; eNotes