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IN 2006 THE CITY OF BERLIN AGREED TO PUT UP A MARKER TO INDICATE WHERE THE BUNKER EXISTED. THEY WAITED FOR FEAR OF THE LOCATION BECOMING A NEO-NAZI SHRINE. THAT HAS NOT BEEN A PROBLEM TO DATE. THIS IS THE ONLY INDICATION TO A TOURIST
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IN 2006 THE CITY OF BERLIN AGREED TO PUT UP A MARKER TO INDICATE WHERE THE BUNKER EXISTED. THEY WAITED FOR FEAR OF THE LOCATION BECOMING A NEO-NAZI SHRINE. THAT HAS NOT BEEN A PROBLEM TO DATE. THIS IS THE ONLY INDICATION TO A TOURIST OR RESIDENT THAT THE BUNKER IS BENEATH WHERE THEY ARE STANDING.
BRANDENBURG GATE IN CENTRAL BERLIN NEW U.S. EMBASSY IS DIRECTLY TO THE SOUTH OF THE BRANDENBURG GATE
BRANDENBURG GATE U.S. EMBASSY
NEW U.S. EMBASSY BRANDENBURG GATE
BACK SIDE OF U.S. EMBASSY GERMANY’S CAPITOL BUILDING HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL
U.S EMBASSY UNDER CONSTRUCTION HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL
Apartments built on Top of former Hitler Bunker Holocaust Memorial in Foreground
Apartments over Bunker Holocaust Memorial
OVERHEAD VIEW OF AREA BUNKER HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL
OUTSIDE ENTRANCE TO THE BUNKER WAS ON TOP OF THIS GRASSY AREA IN PARKING LOT. THIS IS ALSO WHERE THE GOEBBELS AND HITLERS BODIES WERE BROUGHT TO BE BURNED.
ANOTHER VIEW OF PARKING LOT AND APARTMENTS. BENEATH WHERE THE STUDENTS IN THIS PICTURE ARE SITTING ARE THE REMAINS OF HITLER’S BUNKER.
OLDER PHOTO OF PARKING LOT – THIS COVERING LEAD TO THE DOWN TO THE BUNKER. FOR SAFETY REASONS IT WAS IMPLODED AND THIS DOORWAY NO LONGER EXISTS.
ARMIN D. LEHMANN AS SEEN IN THE MOVIE, HITLER GIVING MEDALS TO HITLER YOUTH MEMBERS WHO FOUGHT AGAINST THE SOVIETS IN BERLIN. THIS IS THE ACTUAL BOY WHO WAS PORTRAYED IN THE MOVIE. THESE ARE THE LAST PHOTOS THAT EXIST OF HITLER. THE BOY FROM THE MOVIE (PETER KRANZ) DIED IN OREGON ON OCTOBER 10TH 2008. HE WAS ONE OF THE LAST TWO LIVING WITNESSES OF THE EVENTS IN THE BUNKER. HE BECAME A MESSENGER FOR THE NAZIS SINCE AS A BOY HE COULD TRAVEL MORE FREELY AROUND BERLIN.
LAST LIVING SURVIVOR FROM THE BUNKER IS ROCHUS MISCH PHOTO TAKEN IN THE EARLY 1940s
ROCHUS MISCH TODAY – HE LIVES IN BERLIN AND RARELY SPEAKS PUBLICALLY. HERE IS A PICTURE OF HIM DURING A VERY RARE PUBLIC APPEARANCE ON THE GROUNDS OF THE BUNKER. HERE HE IS SPEAKING TO THE PRESS AND HISTORIANS SINCE THE DEATH OF ARMIN LEHMANN IN OCTOBER 2008 ROCHUS MISCH IS THE LAST LIVING SURVIVOR AMONG THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE BUNKER.
ACTRESS ALEXANDRA MARIA LARA WHO PORTRAYED TRAUDL JUNGE IN “DOWNFALL” JUNGE IN THE MID 1940s JUNGE IN 2000 TRAUDL JUNGE WROTE THE BOOK, ON WHICH THE MOVIE “DOWNFALL” WAS BASED. SHE DIED IN FEBRURAY OF 2002
BOOK BY TRAUDL JUNGE “UNTIL THE FINAL HOUR” “DOWNFALL” WAS LATER BASED ON HER BOOK
ERNA FLEGEL SERVED AS A NURSE IN THE BUNKER. SHE DIED IN FEBRUARY 2006. SHE OFTEN TOOK CARE OF THE GOEBBEL’S CHILDREN AND WAS FRIENDS WITH MAGDA GOEBBELS.
Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven DIED FEBRUARY 2007