Behind the guards' quarters on “Herman-Goering-Strasse”, now Ebertstrasse, there was a large underground garage where the New Reich Chancellery's motor pool was parked and serviced. In the winter of 1943/44, the garage was augmented with a small bunker to protect the chauffeurs, as at this point normal air-raid shelters were not considered safe. There was space for about around 40 …more
When the members of the association Reiner and Gudrun Janick investigated eyewitness reports from the Nazi period of a bunker on Kollwitzstrasse in Tempelhof, they made an important discovery that they were able to present to the international press on the 31st of August 2000 in the Gesundbrunnen bunker: stored in the former bunker of the Lorenz factory, under a …more
In the spring of 1999, members of the association discovered a newspaper ad regarding two “one-man bunkers” to give away. Since up to this point there was still no appropriate indicator at the Gesundbrunnen underground station for the work of our association, the idea was developed to place the two bunkers in front of the south entrance of the U-Bahn …more