Bunker Under Hitler’s Chancellery at Centre of Housing Row
Heritage campaigners say the bunker should be preserved, while city officials back 66 apartments to ease Berlin’s housing shortage.
- On Tuesday, a heritage association warned that a Nazi-era bunker in central Berlin could be destroyed to make way for a housing project involving 66 new apartments, threatening a rare surviving structure from the Nazi era.
- Built by architect Albert Speer for Adolf Hitler in the '30s, the structure served as a wartime shelter and sits adjacent to the Fuehrerbunker, where the German dictator committed suicide with Eva Braun.
- Covering around 1,250 square metres, Arnold called the bunker "a historic site that absolutely must not be destroyed," dismissing concerns it could become a pilgrimage destination as a "spurious argument."
- Berlin's deputy construction minister Christian Gaebler told the Bild daily that new housing must take precedence, as residents face soaring rents and difficulty finding accommodation in the German capital.
- The dispute has become a campaign theme ahead of next month's state assembly election, though Berliner Unterwelten stresses it is "not blocking the construction of new housing" and the structure could be built over.
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A housing project in Berlin has sparked debate about whether to preserve a bunker linked to Adolf Hitler or construct a new building. The site is the former location of Hitler's Chancellery, and only a portion of the bunker remains. The debate centers on whether to preserve the site for an exhibition space focused on Nazi Berlin or demolish it to build a 66-unit apartment building. A proposal seeks a middle ground between historical memory and h…
Berlin is attempting to quietly demolish the bunker beneath Hitler’s former Reich Chancellery. A group of indignant citizens rises up in protest. ‘This is...
The terraced house idyll of the Bonn settlement does not suggest what is hidden there under the ground. Many of the houses have a bunker. Some look as if the time has stopped there during the Cold War.
While the Berlin Government prioritizes the construction of 66 apartments, activists remember that space is not at risk of becoming a place of pilgrimage Read
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