An organization called the Berlin Underworlds offers visitors an unexpected perspective of the German capital.

Founded in 1997, Underworlds is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the documentation and preservation of Berlin’s vast network of subterranean spaces. It funds its projects by giving tours of bunkers, sewers, air raid shelters and catacombs. The tours are offered in a variety of... more

BERLIN (Reuters) – Three vast tunnels were opened under central Berlin this month, giving a glimpse of Adolf Hitler's megalomaniac vision of a new architectural centre for the capital of Nazi Germany.

The 16-metre (50-foot) deep tunnels were constructed in 1938 as part of an underground transport network beneath a series of bombastic buildings designed by Nazi architect Albert... more

A Nazi academy designed by Albert Speer and forgotten for decades has become the focus of a monumental treasure hunt in Berlin after explorers claim to have found it buried under a mountain of rubble.

The huge complex, which was part of Speer's grand design for the Third Reich's capital Germania, was intended to train a new generation of... more

BERLIN – Behind a nondescript steel door next to a busy subway platform, a hidden passage leads to an underground complex straight out of the Cold War: a concrete bunker designed to shelter thousands of people from a nuclear attack.

The chances of World War III breaking out in the German capital seem remote these days, nearly 18... more

The hidden site of the bunker where Adolf Hitler watched his Third Reich disintegrate in the final months of the second world war has been officially marked by a historical group seeking to demystify it.

Hidden below a playground and an apartment block, the location of the "fuehrer's" bunker was unrecognisable until the Berlin Underworlds' Association unveiled its information... more

BERLIN (Reuters) – A Berlin-based history society on Thursday unveiled an information sign at the site of Hitler's underground bunker, marking for the first time exactly where the Nazi leader took his life at the end of World War Two.

Just 200 metres (yards) away from Germany's memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, the Berlin Underworlds... more

An information panel marking the site of the bunker where Adolf Hitler committed suicide at the end of World War II has been unveiled in Berlin.

It is the first time the authorities have allowed the site, just 200 metres (220 yards) from Berlin's Holocaust Memorial, to be officially identified. There had been fears marking the site would attract... more

At Gesundbrunnen, an underground train station in Berlin, there is a green door that thousands of people pass everyday, most unaware of the other world that lies behind it. Luminous paint, now more than 60 years old, still glows, and in the faint darkness a sign can be made out: Room 14 – 38 persons. In other rooms there... more