A once-secret bunker designed to shield communist rulers of the former East Germany from a nuclear attack has opened to the public. The three-storey complex, finished in 1983, was Germany marks the 60th anniversary of the Berlin airlift ...
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At the time it was one of the communist world's most advanced bunkers. Now the walls are covered in mould and the decontamination chambers long-defunct. The bunker, north of Berlin, will be open for three months. The Berlin city authorities say they will then seal it with concrete.
(Deutsche Welle)
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