E. Berlin to Raze Hitler’s Suicide Bunker
The concrete bunker where Adolf Hitler shot himself as the Russians advanced into the Nazi capital is being demolished to make way for a park, East Berlin building officials said today.
“We are blowing everything up, every last bit will be detonated so no keepsake remains,” East Berlin building chief Ehrhardt Gisske told Reuters in an interview.
Workmen are drilling holes for explosive charges in the 13-foot thick roof of the bunker near the Berlin Wall where Hitler took his life April 30, 1945.
The bunker roof will be removed and the cavity filled.
“We can do history no greater justice than by placing a park there in the middle of a wonderful housing area,” building site chief Fritz Oske said.
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