June 11, 2006

Hitler's bunker

THE site of Hitler’s bunker, long one of Berlin’s best-kept secrets, is now officially a tourist attraction.

After more than 60 years the city has reversed a policy of concealing the location of the underground rooms where the Nazi leader steered the Third Reich towards its downfall, and where he killed himself with poison and a pistol. There is now a sign in German and English on the site, close to the Brandenburg Gate.

One in four visitors to the city is curious about the bunker but, until yesterday, was given no help in finding the patch of grass and concrete.

From the Times of London.

Posted by David on June 11, 2006 9:42 PM

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Last year we saw the very moving memorial, beside Checkpoint Charlie, to those who were murdered fleeing East Germany. (We hadn't known that many who'd got away successfully were betrayed in the West and kidnapped and taken back to the East.) I gather that since then this memorial has been (or is to be) destroyed.

Posted by: dearieme on June 12, 2006 6:54 AM
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