On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:25:53 +0100, "nightjar"
here>.me.uk> wrote:
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>"Martin" wrote in message
>news:oas235doliu9lkn724lp5r8v7gi0rstohr@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:19:18 +0100, "nightjar"
>> here>.me.uk> wrote:
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>>>
>>>"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
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>> 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.
The Russians shot the ones who escaped via the tunnel as they tried to cross a
bridge over the canal.
--
Martin
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