Berliner Tor deep bunker is a deep bunker near Berliner Tor station in Hamburg, Germany. The structure was originally constructed in 1940 by the government of Nazi Germany as a civilian refuge from bombing.[1][2]
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The deep bunker had a capacity of 1000 people, and provided refuge from the firestorm caused by Operation Gomorrah, a concerted raid of bombing with incendiary weapons during the allied bombing of Hamburg in 1943 which resulted in over 35,000 deaths.[3][4]
In the Cold War period, it was reused as a nuclear bunker by the post-war West German government, and extensively renovated for that use, with the renovations finished in 1963.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "Berlinertor Bunker, Hamburg". Subterranea Britannica. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
- ^ "Führungen durch den Tiefbunker am Berliner Tor". www.unter-hamburg.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-11-29.
- ^ Schmoock, Matthias (2023-07-29). "Zweiter Weltkrieg: Wie die Hamburger Gomorrha erlebten – eine Nacht im Bunker". www.abendblatt.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-12-01.
- ^ Schmoock, Matthias (2023-07-27). "Hamburg während Operation Gomorrha: So erlebten Zeitzeugen die Luftangriffe". www.abendblatt.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-12-01.
External links
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- NDR video about bunkers in Hamburg, including this
- More images of the bunker at secrethamburg.de
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