Sunday, June 11, 2006

Hitler's Bunker Sign


Hitler's Bunker
Originally uploaded by Sydney Weasel.
BERLIN: They paved a sacred site, put up a parking lot, and a block of flats. And last week, after 60 years, Berlin authorities erected a sign identifying the site of the bunker where Adolf Hitler committed suicide at the end of World War 11.

A large sign was erected near Wilhelmstrasse above the underground labyrinth where Hitler married Eva Braun, hours before committing suicide with her on April 30, 1945, ending the Nazi's 12-year reign of terror.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Despite the avid interest of tourists, Berlin had refused to identify the site for fear it would become a shrine for neo-Nazis.

But after years of lobbying, the private organisation Berlin Underworlds has won permission to erect the panel. A sober factual description of the bunker will rob it of any mythical power it may have had.


The Sunday Telegraph