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Last Updated: Thursday, 8 June 2006, 17:09 GMT 18:09 UK
Hitler's bunker location marked
Photo:
Former Hitler bodyguard Rochus Misch stands at the bunker's site
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 right-wing
extremists.
Hitler killed himself in the bunker at the end of April 1945 as Soviet
troops closed in on the city.
The panel at the site shows the layout of the bunker together with
archive photos and a chronology in German and English.
It was put together by a history society which runs guided tours of
Berlin's network of underground bomb shelters, Berlin Underworlds, and wants
to demystify the site.
"This is one of the most symbolic places in Berlin for the crimes the
Nazis committed and we want to make sure people know the whole truth about
it," said Sven Felix Kellerhoff.
Car park spot
One of Hitler's former bodyguards, 88-year-old Rochus Misch, who was
at the unveiling, said people should be informed of history, even when it
was the history of a devil.
"During the last 12 days of the war, I was down here with Hitler and
the other bodyguards all the time," he said.
After the war, Soviet soldiers blew up most of the bunker, and in the
1980s the remaining foundation and walls were filled with rubble, making it
inaccessible.
It is now buried under a car park surrounded by blocks of apartments
built by the former East German government.
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