Tour 1 – Dark Worlds A tour through a bunker from WWII

Every day, hundreds of people walk past a green door in the Gesundbrunnen Underground railway station unaware that within lies a subterranean labyrinth full of authentic history waiting to be experienced. How uncomfortable it must have been during WWII to be crammed inside these small chambers – the depleted air supply, the incessant clanging of ventilation machines, the thundering of bomber aircrafts overhead. This atmosphere of fear and anguish can still be sensed today.

Tour 1 will lead visitors through civilian shelters and bunker complexes as they learn about life during the bombing campaigns in Berlin. Over the course of the tour, visitors will view a museum exhibition of WWII remnants that the Berlin Underworlds' Association has retrieved during their work below ground. The Underworlds' Museum displays objects from many layers of the long and fascinating history of subterranean Berlin. Visitors will see artifacts from Berlin's late-19th century pneumatic dispatch system, as well as documentation of the hundreds of kilometres of Berlin's sewer systems and of the city's many amazing cathedral-like brewery cellars.