'Absolute madness': Row over plan to demolish Nazi bunker under Berlin
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Image source, Archiv BUeV / Reiner JanickByBethany BellBBC News in BerlinPublished32 minutes agoThere are plans in Berlin to tear down one of the last remnants of Adolf Hitler's power centre.
Almost nothing remains of the Nazi leader's chancellery in central Berlin, except a bunker. But now there are plans to demolish it to build flats and offices. The New Reich Chancellery, built by Hitler's favourite architect Albert Speer, was severely damaged at the end of World War Two and then torn down by order of the Soviet forces in 1949.
However the bunker is still visible in a patch of wasteland. Berlin's Housing Senator Christian Gaebler (SPD) believes it is time for the structure to go. "We are not standing in the way of new housing developments just to preserve a bunker that might then even become a place of pilgrimage," he told the BZ newspaper.
Dietmar Arnold, chairman of the Berlin Underworlds Association, told the BBC it would be "absolute madness" to demolish the bunker. "It is a site of the perpetrators," he said. "It was the power centre of Nazi Germany, Hitler's New Reich Chancellery, and these are the last remains."
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