Finding the Führerbunker: The Location of Hitler's Bunker in Berlin

In this video, Stephen, a tour guide with Free Tours by Foot Berlin, takes you on a walking tour to find the location of Hitler's bunker in Berlin. MORE BERLIN VIDEOS: / @experienceberlin8476 .
Underneath what is today a undescript parking lot in the middle of an apartment building complex, existed the Führerbunker, where Hitler spend the final days of WW2 and the Battle of Berlin and where he ended his life. We'll walk around the neigborhood with the Reich Chancellery once stood to get an understanding of why the bunker was located here.
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[@thomast9736]

I think the photographer masquerading as a construction worker who accessed the bunker alone to photograph it, must have had one of the most chilling experiences

[@colonial6452]

When I was assigned to the US Embassy Office in Berlin in 1992-1995, I often ate at the Indonesian/Chinese restaurant at the corner of Wilhelm and Voss. Bunker Bistro.

[@rolfagten857]

In that Hitler comedy "Er ist wieder da" Hitler woke up in that park. 70 years after the war.

[@ROBSHOTZ]

iT WAS A SPOOF OF THE OPENING SCENE FROM tv SHOW LOST

[@opoxious1592]

Hitler's living quarters was in the top right part of the building, where you can see the flagpole at 3:05 The Russians only managed to destroy the upper part of the bunker complex. The lower part where also Hitler's rooms are, is still intact. The Russians sealed of the lower entrance with a big slab of concrete.

[@experienceberlin8476]

After the war, this was true, but in the late 80’s, the bunker was almost 100% destroyed when the flats around it were built.

[@1946luke]

Well, Soviets/Russians have never been accused of being mental giants. To intentionally destroy historical buildings and/or places, is pure insanity. But that's communists for ya.

[@experienceberlin8476]

@@hirondelle8734 I think Felton is correct. My comment was more a generalization.

[@jacklong7048]

@@experienceberlin8476 I would think you would be more accurate, then those experts probably in US on their couch.

[@frigland9167]

Hitkler did not walk out to shoot himself. He did that in his private room in the bunker.

[@600joe]

Over your left shoulder at the curb line of the street is where they burned the bodies.

[@Buckblacket]

I saw this in 1983 whilst visiting Berlin when I was serving in the military. It was pretty underwhelming.

[@robertsmith-dr5tm]

The “pointy top” isn’t where guards were stationed It is the top of a ventilator supplying the bunker Speer had the idea of putting poison gas into the bunker but the opening of the finished ventilation tower was out of reach

[@experienceberlin8476]

According to the Bundesarchiv, it's the second emergency exit and guard station commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4600833

[@IFist]

You're correct. The pointy top is ventilation. I've never heard anyone call it something else. The large Block of concrete is where the emergency exit was.

[@robertsmith-dr5tm]

@@IFist yes. You look on a chart and you can see the ‘pointy top’ is labeled as a ventilator and the concrete block you mentioned is the emergency exit. The whole bunker complex was still under construction when the war ended

[@malcolmledger176]

There is some doubt about whether or not Speer actually intended to gas Hitler, or would have been able to. And I am not talking about his claim that the filter shafts had been extended and that this thwarted his plan.

[@IFist]

@@malcolmledger176 It never sounded true, to me. Speer was trying to save his own neck with a story that no-one could refute. A story that might make him sound sympathetic to The Court was a good gamble, as long as he didn't over do it.

[@chetpomeroy1399]

During the Cold War when the Wall was up, I heard that the _Fuhrerbunker_ was beneath the eastern edge of what was called the "Death Strip," the no-man's land between the actual Berlin Wall and the inner wall. In those days, it was under a tall, grassy knoll abutting the inner wall, as depicted in the pictures taken of the actual location.

[@experienceberlin8476]

It was not actually under that area inside the inner and outer walls, rather it was just outside of the inner wall in an area that wasn't developed much after the war. It was really close though, maybe 100 meters or so away.

[@stevendaniel8126]

Very, very interesting...... Thank you !!

[@johnaugsburger6192]

Thanks

[@KimmoKetolainen]

Two more factual errors at time 0:10:20 - 1) The bunker was not located in "no man's land" i.e. between the outer and inner walls of the Berlin Wall, but well inside the inner wall. 2) The erection of those new houses in 1989 did not wait for the walls to go away. Nothing to do with that process that only began on 9 November 1989.

[@experienceberlin8476]

1) Correct. It was a poor choice of words as I meant "no man's land" in the general sense when it's an actual term for the barrier. I probably should have said dead zone or something to that effect. 2) I don't believe I said that the erection of the flats had something to do with the falling of the Berlin Wall. It's just a coincidence that the apartments' foundations were dug in 1989. Thanks for watching. This was my first video and I was a bit nervous. Hope to improve in future videos.

[@allegory7638]

I bet Hitler was in a bad mood when he woke up on the ground.

[@billmiller8333]

Visited it last month.

[@straightmanforever69]

Shame it isn't there anymore

[@harbourdogNL]

Why? It would be a pilgrimage site for nazi scum. The space should be turned into a public urinal.

[@rolfagten857]

Germany is in shame for 1939-1945

[@8MunchenBayern8]

Get over it, the self hate is so stupid. The Japanese did just as bad stuff and they aren’t committing cultural suicide over it

[@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044]

​@@rolfagten857they are masochistic about it really. The newcomers to Germany can't be guilt tripped over ww2 goings on by the teutons. Also the young Germans of today are increasingly fed up with being typecast and stigmatized over it all especially

[@tedlawrence4189]

When I was a child I visited Berlin. Was probably 1961. I believe that I saw Herr Hitler in a restaurant. He would have been about 72. My Grandfather translated into english. He was talking about how Germany should have defeated the Russian swine. He said that the Americans treated the german people better than the Russkies. As he was leaving his table an elderly lady said: "seig heil mein fuhrer"

[@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044]

Maybe good story though

[@carausiuscaesar5672]

What happened to Peter,Hitler’s cat.

[@emilioalcazar-su9vi]

Good historic perspective of the zone..now vulgar trhan ever

[@lawrencebishton9071]

labour hq is where bunkier is at

[@utpalbasu3353]

i will be in berlin , in june,23, can anybody tell me if I can visit it by hiring a taxi from my hotel ?

[@gedmack7012]

Did he take his life here?, questionable

[@theculturedthug6609]

They need to recreate the bunker there what a mistake getting rid of it.

[@jacklong7048]

Too many would be attracted to it-like Nazis.

[@theculturedthug6609]

@@jacklong7048 Doubt it.

[@IFist]

It's their country. Their choice. I don't know how I would feel about it if I were in their shoes. Yes, I wish it was still there too. But, I don't have to live with it, and all it represents, in my country.

[@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044]

It's part of the story if death camps are carefully preserved then so should ordinary things as it distorts perceptions otherwise and people get suspicious of being manipulated with a controlled narrative

[@Parker6432]

Very poorly narrated sadly.

[@thesteelrodent1796]

and full of factual errors

[@blackisler]

​@@thesteelrodent1796Care to list them? I think he does a good job. Needs some work on the word "Reich" and pronounces S words in a way I teach Germans not to, other than that all es in Butter!