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Site of the Führerbunker
An ordinary residential car park is all that marks the spot where Adolf Hitler spent the final weeks of the war and took his own life on the thirtieth of April 1945. A single modest information board is the only acknowledgement of what lies buried beneath the asphalt.
About this place
Beneath this unremarkable parking area, roughly eight and a half metres underground, lay the Führerbunker, the deep air raid shelter that became the last seat of the Nazi regime. Hitler moved into these cramped, damp rooms on the sixteenth of January 1945 and rarely emerged again. Above ground stood the New Reich Chancellery, the monumental government palace designed by Albert Speer; today nothing of it remains here. As the Red Army fought through the streets of Berlin, Hitler married Eva Braun in the bunker on the twenty ninth of April and the couple died by suicide the following day. The Soviets and later the East German authorities demolished the ruins, and for decades the location was deliberately left anonymous to prevent it becoming a place of pilgrimage. Only in 2006 was a simple board placed nearby, explaining the bunker's layout to passers by who would otherwise walk over the site without a second glance.
Key facts
- 8.5 metres — The depth the bunker lay beneath the Reich Chancellery garden
- 30 April 1945 — The day Hitler died by suicide as Soviet troops closed in
- 2006 year — When the only marker, a single information board, was finally installed
📍 Gertrud-Kolmar-Straße, 10117, Berlin