"Martin" wrote in message
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> On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:19:18 +0100, "nightjar"
> here>.me.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Martin" wrote in message
>>news:3c72359crless6l6gm0bld9csnqee4nks4@4ax.com...
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>>> I watched a Discovery programme about passages/tunnels that
>>> connected/connect
>>> the Berlin U-bahn with Hitler's bunker. Can you visit them?
>>
>>You can still use the station, then Kaiserhof, later Thaelmannplatz and
>>now
>>Mohrenstrasse. Verien Berliner Unterwelten (no contact details, sorry) do
>>tours of some of the old underground parts of Germania and the defences of
>>Berlin, but I don't know if they include the tunnels you mention. I
>>suspect
>>that they are seen as part of the Reich Chancellery bunker complex, which
>>is
>>kept closed to stop it becoming a shrine to the neo-Nazis.
>>
>>You might find the book Past Finder - Berlin 1933-1945 of interest. It is
>>a
>>modern guidebook to the city of that period and the bits you can still
>>find
>>today. The English version (it is also available in German, Russian,
>>French
>>and Italian) is ISBN-13 978-3-86153-363-4
>
> http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=9783861533634&sts=t&x=44&y=14
>
> £8.75
>
> Thanks Colin. In the Discovery programme they said most of the occupants
> of the
> bunkers escaped via the tunnel that linked to the U-bahn.
Mind you, of the hundred or so who tried, only a handful actually made it. A
lot died in the fighting and most of the rest were captured by the Russians.
Colin Bignell
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