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00:02Berlin, Germany.
00:04The headquarters of one of the most feared leaders in history.
00:10Adolf Hitler.
00:12In this underground Nazi stronghold, known as the Fuhrerbunker,
00:17Hitler plans world domination.
00:19This was where Hitler played out the final scenes of the Second World War.
00:24Do any traces remain of the bunker where Hitler made his last stand?
00:29For the last hundred days of his life, only twice did he ever come out again.
00:34And how is the Fuhrerbunker engineered for Hitler to wage a war?
00:39To find out, investigators shine a light on abandoned Nazi megastructures.
00:45It's truly a massive space, cathedral of war.
00:49And use innovative laser scanners to reconstruct the last days of the Third Reich.
00:55I think we can say that this is some kind of super bunker.
01:00To solve these mysteries, we'll blow apart Hitler's wartime bunker.
01:05To reveal how he commands his Third Reich from 20 feet underground.
01:11We'll discover Hitler's secret subterranean strongholds.
01:15And unearth the hidden heart of his Nazi regime.
01:21And unearth the hidden heart of his Nazi regime.
01:30Berlin. Capital of one of the most evil empires of the 20th century.
01:36Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.
01:41Deep underneath these city streets lies one of the most significant structures of World War II.
01:48Hitler's bunker.
01:50Hitler's bunker is a source of great fascination around the world.
01:54You know, we're trying to still get our heads around ultra evil.
01:57And this is one of the key and most important historical sites.
02:02In modern day Germany, remains of Hitler's brutal Nazi regime are there to be found.
02:10But only if you know where to look.
02:16Hidden somewhere below the streets of Berlin lies Hitler's bunker.
02:22known as the Fuhrer bunker.
02:25It's a 3,000 square foot complex of top secret rooms.
02:30On the upper level, a maze of 19 small rooms.
02:34Some only six feet wide.
02:37And eight feet deeper, the heart of the bunker.
02:40Hitler's command center.
02:42His private wing.
02:45Just a small office and bedroom.
02:49Protected by an immense concrete ceiling 15 feet thick.
02:54But where is Hitler's bunker today?
03:00In April 1945, Russian troops overrun Berlin.
03:05They find Hitler's body just yards away from his Fuhrer bunker.
03:12Decades later, Hitler's bunker is a violent footnote in German history most would like to forget.
03:21But military historian Nigel Dunkley is determined to seek it out.
03:26The bunker was so sensitive, nobody wanted it to become a rallying place for perhaps neo-Nazis.
03:34And so the decision was made to eradicate it, get rid of it.
03:41Hitler's bunker is consigned to Germany's past.
03:45But Nigel believes he can connect the dots to lead him to its location.
03:51So I've got with me a famous photograph, and it shows the Reich Kanzlei, the Reich Chancellery, Hitler's office, at
04:00the end of the war in 1945.
04:04The Reich Chancellery is Hitler's official residence.
04:08This was the absolute epicenter of Nazi power here.
04:13440 yards long.
04:15It was massive.
04:16It was here to impress people as well as being a functioning office.
04:21The Reich Chancellery is demolished after World War II.
04:25Like the bunker, its former location isn't advertised.
04:32Here we are.
04:34Right slap-bang in the middle of where Hitler's Chancellery used to be.
04:40And in the back garden, below it, Hitler's bunker.
04:44And that's exactly where we are standing right now.
04:50Europe's most interesting car park.
04:54What was once the epicenter of Nazi power is now a parking lot.
05:03But Hitler's bunker starts life as something very different.
05:09Hidden beneath the Reich Chancellery Ballroom lies an air raid shelter, 72 feet long.
05:15Two entrances allow a rapid retreat from both sides of the building.
05:22Inside, there is enough space to accommodate Hitler and 200 staff during a bombing attack.
05:31A snaking system of pipes delivers filtered air to protect them from poison gas.
05:37And a five-foot-thick roof provides shelter from the impact of bombs.
05:43This air raid shelter is merely phase one of Hitler's bunker.
05:47But how does he build this subterranean shield?
05:55Historian Sascha Keil thinks the answer lies hidden beneath Berlin's streets.
06:02In a labyrinth of secret Nazi tunnels that make up a vast underground city over 600 miles long.
06:10We have many 10,000 square meters in Berlin, in the underground,
06:14and hundreds of kilometers of tunnels, bunkers and suburbs.
06:19To unlock the secrets of the Fuhrbunker's construction,
06:23Sascha explores an abandoned tunnel less than half a mile away.
06:27Just navigating these tunnels can be dangerous.
06:31We have no ventilation in this tunnel.
06:34The humidity is very high.
06:36It's a problem for your breathing.
06:45At the bottom of the shaft, Sascha discovers the remains of a huge road tunnel.
06:53It was built by Hitler's Nazi engineers in 1938.
06:59This tunnel is not completed.
07:01It's just a reserve building, 18 meters long, in the underground.
07:05It's about 8 meters in the depth we are now in the soil.
07:11What can this 60-foot tunnel tell us about the construction of Hitler's bunker?
07:23Sascha believes these tunnel builders encounter trouble as soon as they begin to dig.
07:29The soil at Berlin area is very sandy, and it's some areas like fluid.
07:36You cannot build like you build on rocks or stable soil.
07:43But Hitler's Nazi engineers have a solution.
07:50Berlin's soft, sandy soil makes building underground difficult and dangerous.
07:56Tunnels and trenches can't support their own weight and collapse inwards.
08:02So engineers use steel mesh and beams to reinforce tunnel walls.
08:07And fill them with extra-strong, quick-setting concrete.
08:14The concrete walls stops the soil coming in the tunnel.
08:19And it's still here, as you can see, 60 years, 70 years after they build it.
08:26Concrete like this is essential when building underground in Berlin.
08:31But is it the only problem Hitler's engineers have to overcome?
08:36In the underground Nazi road tunnel, Sascha can go no further.
08:44Every time you build in the soil of Berlin, you come to the waterline of the groundwater.
08:51Berlin has a very high water table, and parts of this road tunnel are flooded.
08:57But Hitler demands his bunker be built here.
09:01So how do the Nazis overcome this next engineering hurdle?
09:08Building below the water table is a massive problem for Hitler's engineers.
09:13However fast they dig, the trenches quickly fill with water.
09:18So they install pumps that run 24-7 to suck out water during construction.
09:25So they can carry on building without delay.
09:29Hitler's water pumps mean it's full steam ahead for the construction of the Fuhrerbunker.
09:36His concrete and steel walls are vital for withstanding Allied attack.
09:42With these additional reinforcements, Hitler is going to incredible lengths to protect himself.
09:49But will it be enough?
09:50Or does his Fuhrerbunker have a fatal flaw?
10:08Berlin, home to the secret underground bunker of Adolf Hitler.
10:15At the very height of World War II, British and American bombers pound the city.
10:21The Allies know if they can kill Hitler, the war will be won.
10:28During the war, there was sort of a miniature arms race.
10:30The Germans built more and more heavily defended buildings,
10:34and the Allies built larger and larger bombs in order to attack them.
10:40Unnerved, Hitler orders his Reich Chancellery air raid shelter to be strengthened.
10:47Phase 2 of Hitler's bunker begins.
10:51To extend Hitler's original air raid shelter, engineers dig a 10,000 square foot box.
10:59They lay a 7,000-ton concrete base and build steel-reinforced walls,
11:06each filled with 12 feet of concrete.
11:10On top, thick steel beams, covered with a fine steel mesh,
11:18reinforce the walls against explosions.
11:21Finally, it's submerged in concrete to create a new roof that is 15 feet thick.
11:27This is engineering on a grand scale.
11:31Could Hitler's bunker be destroyed?
11:38Ian Murray is an expert in World War II weaponry.
11:43He wants to investigate if Hitler is safe in his new and improved bunker.
11:50Ian explores this abandoned U-boat factory near Bremen, Germany,
11:55to discover how effective the Allies' bombs truly are.
12:01The Nazis were developing more and more sophisticated U-boats.
12:05This bunker was built to build the latest version of the U-boats,
12:08and it was massively constructed.
12:12Just like Hitler's bunker,
12:14this gigantic factory is built completely of reinforced concrete,
12:20with a roof and walls that are 15 feet thick.
12:26The Nazis were exceptionally well developed in building massive concrete structures,
12:32which were impervious to most of the bombs which the Allies had.
12:38Ian explores the building for signs of Allied attack.
12:44On the roof, he makes a startling discovery.
12:53Well, all over this roof there are these huge craters.
12:58And these have been made by penetrating bombs which have come down
13:02and hit the roof at incredible speed and penetrated right into the concrete.
13:08The explosive device responsible for some of these craters is the bunker-busting Disney bomb.
13:16Rumored to be named after a Disney World War II propaganda film,
13:20this bomb weighs more than 4,000 pounds.
13:24Fitted with rocket motors, it slams into its target at over 1,000 miles per hour.
13:34The Allies were hoping that the Disney bombs would help to knock out installations like this.
13:41But this bomb has a weakness.
13:44Because the Disney bomb was propelled by a rocket motor on the back,
13:48that tended to wobble the aim of the bomb a little bit.
13:55They were much harder to drop with good accuracy.
14:01The American Air Force dropped 60 Disney bombs on this target,
14:05and only two of them actually hit it.
14:08The Disney bomb barely scratches the surface.
14:12The Allies need something bigger and better if they're going to bust Hitler's bunker.
14:20Enter the Grand Slam.
14:2322,000 pounds of explosive power.
14:30It's one of the most devastating weapons ever designed.
14:36This mega bomb has one purpose.
14:39To annihilate the Nazi war machine.
14:44Traditional bombs are designed to explode at or near the surface.
14:49And destroy their target directly by explosive force.
14:56Earthquake bombs, like the huge Grand Slam, are different.
14:59With extra thick shells, they're designed to survive impact with the ground.
15:06Shaped to fall at very high speed, they penetrate the surface.
15:12And explode deep underground.
15:17Sending out powerful shock waves like an earthquake.
15:22They cause huge destruction, both above and below ground.
15:27The Allies hope the Grand Slam will turn the tide of the war.
15:32But can it really bust Hitler's bunker?
15:37Ian heads inside the abandoned U-boat factory to find out.
15:51It's truly a massive space.
15:54A cathedral of war.
16:04So this hole in the roof was created by a Grand Slam 10-ton bomb.
16:10That bomb has come down, hit the roof traveling faster than the speed of sound, penetrated deep into the concrete,
16:18and then it's exploded.
16:21And left a hole about 20 or 30 feet in diameter in the roof.
16:29The Grand Slam's direct hit blasts straight through 15 feet of reinforced concrete.
16:37But what if this bomb had hit the Fuhrer bunker?
16:40So even if the Fuhrer bunker hadn't been hit on the roof, if the bomb had landed within 50 meters,
16:46the shock from the explosion would have damaged the bunker.
16:50It would also have killed a lot of the people inside the bunker as well.
16:55And if Hitler was there, we would have got him.
17:00Ian is certain Hitler's new reinforced bunker would have been no match for the Grand Slam.
17:09Hitler is a sitting duck in his Berlin bunker.
17:13The Allies are closing in.
17:16And they have a bomb that could kill him.
17:19If Hitler is to keep his war command running, Nazi ingenuity will be put to the test.
17:26Can he ever build a bunker strong enough?
17:42The bunker Hitler builds in the heart of Berlin is vulnerable to Allied megabombs.
17:48But by 1943, Hitler's Nazi legions are locked in a desperate struggle with Soviet Russia.
17:55It's one of the biggest conflicts waged in human history.
18:01And Hitler builds another bunker here in Nazi-occupied Poland, just 90 miles from the Russian front line.
18:11Hitler decided his wish to be next to his troops and to show the world he is the first soldier
18:20of the country.
18:20This new bunker is at the center of a huge military complex called the Wolf's Lair.
18:31Architectural historian Robert Conrad explores this site to see what makes this bunker unique.
18:39It's really overwhelming, these masses of concrete and steel.
18:46Partially buried, with a roof more than 25 feet thick, this colossal bunker is engineered for Hitler's ultimate protection.
18:56Designed like an Egyptian tomb, the living quarters are buried under dozens of feet of sand, steel and concrete.
19:07Hitler's bedroom, measuring 9 feet by 11 feet, sits among a maze of corridors and other tiny rooms.
19:17This concrete fortress is camouflaged with grass, and nestled in dense forest.
19:25Has Hitler finally built the perfect bunker?
19:30Robert believes the answer can be found among these ruins.
19:34Here we have the crown of German bunker building in this time.
19:41Hitler's bunker at the heart of the Wolf's Lair is more than 26 times the size of his bunker in
19:47Berlin.
19:49The whole site was created for purely function. It was not the aim to be beautiful.
19:58Hitler's Wolf's Lair is designed for maximum security.
20:02The forest hideaway is laid out in three concentric rings.
20:08At the heart of the complex is Security Zone 1.
20:13It houses reinforced concrete bunkers for Hitler and his inner circle.
20:20Security Zone 2 houses lower ranking ministers, and the barracks for the SS.
20:28Security Zone 3 is the heavily fortified outer ring.
20:33It's defended by guardhouses, watchtowers, and checkpoints.
20:38And surrounded by landmines.
20:43The Wolf's Lair is close to the front line and is heavily defended.
20:49But if Hitler is going to win the war, he'll also need protection from air attack.
20:55We are standing here in the forest.
20:58In the time of Hitler, you have to imagine it was very dark and dense and covered by nets of
21:06camouflage.
21:07They were afraid for an air raid from the British.
21:12Nobody could see the sight from a plane.
21:15The tree cover provides the perfect natural canopy to hide Hitler from Allied bombers.
21:23And at the fringes of the Wolf's Lair, Robert discovers something else.
21:29Train tracks.
21:30If you follow these railway tracks, after hundreds of miles you will reach Berlin.
21:38It was a key part for the decision to having here a headquarter.
21:43Because it's not only wood and it's not only hidden in Remont, but it's also connected with the rest of
21:49the world.
21:50Hitler has created the perfect bunker complex.
21:55Here in the vast forests of northeast Poland.
21:59But the war turns against the Nazis.
22:02Hitler's Wolf's Lair lies in the path of the advancing Soviets.
22:06He must retreat.
22:10Hitler believed only he can run Germany, only he can fight the world war.
22:17And that's why he all the time has been so concerned about his own safety.
22:24And that was the reason for building all these bunkers.
22:29The protection of the Fuhr is proving the most important security challenge of all.
22:36What can Hitler and his engineers build to keep him safe from the advancing enemy?
22:55Deep in the woods of Nazi-occupied Poland.
22:59Hitler and his armies are waging war against the Allies.
23:04But the war is turning against the Germans.
23:08The Soviets are advancing into Poland.
23:12Hitler is forced to abandon his secret military bunker complex, the Wolf's Lair.
23:19He needs a new command center.
23:22A mammoth construction is ordered beneath the stunning Kionz Castle in southern Poland.
23:28Its codename, Giant.
23:30and an alien to Israel and his clan.
23:32the 187-1810-1885 in the valley.
23:34Concealed deep in the mountain
23:36is a vast network of secret Nazi tunnels.
23:40Starting at the Castle,
23:42the shaft from the fourth floor plunges down 130 feet, splitting into multiple routes.
23:52Inside, some tunnels are neatly lined with concrete and wide enough for armored vehicles
23:58to drive through. But 40 feet deeper, some passages are unfinished, roughly cut into
24:05the bare rock, a maze of tunnels carved deep into the mountain.
24:12What is Hitler building here?
24:17To find out, mining surveyor Mateusz Jablonski and his team head directly beneath Kionz,
24:26one of the largest castles in Poland.
24:31For the first time, Mateusz's team will digitally map this twisting labyrinth of tunnels,
24:37producing a never-before-seen 3D model of the giant.
24:44There is a lot of unanswered questions. Still, we don't know the purpose of these tunnels.
24:51We don't know if we have discovered everything.
25:00Mateusz uses innovative laser scanners to measure the dimensions of the tunnels beneath the castle.
25:08His aim, to understand exactly what Hitler is building here.
25:15There still could be a lot of undiscovered tunnels around us, in this area.
25:21There are hypotheses that there is another level above or under us.
25:27Mateusz's laser scanner bounces light off static targets placed throughout the tunnel system.
25:36The refracted light from the laser maps the surface of the rock.
25:41The scans show us the shape of the object that we are scanning,
25:45and afterwards we can check also the material that the tunnels are made of.
25:53Mateusz and colleague Aga Ocewek think clues about Hitler's grand plan lie in the very rock that surrounds them.
26:03All this complex is made of this Gneiss rock.
26:06It is one of the toughest rock in this area.
26:11Harder than concrete, Gneiss is a metamorphic rock,
26:15making it extremely difficult to tunnel into.
26:18But the Nazis have come up with a brutal solution to their engineering problem.
26:25Forced labor.
26:26All these tunnels were made by prisoners of war and prisoners of concentration camp.
26:32During work in these very difficult conditions, a lot of them lost their lives.
26:385,000 prisoners from nearby concentration camp Gross Rosen die digging these passages.
26:47Forgotten victims of Hitler's obsession to build bigger, better, and stronger.
26:57In the mobile lab, the data from Mateusz's scans is finally ready to process.
27:03And the team makes a fascinating discovery.
27:07Not only are the tunnels underneath Kionge hollowed out from incredibly strong rock,
27:14some of these tunnels are also lined with concrete.
27:20The thickness of this concrete is unusual, because let's think about the strength of these Gneiss rocks.
27:28It wouldn't be even possible to bomb it to destroy this place,
27:31but they decided to do so strong reinforcement.
27:34It doesn't make sense, so that's one of the points of the mysteries there.
27:40Mateusz's 3D model uncovers mysterious concrete reinforcements.
27:45But there's more.
27:48Incredibly, the tunnels beneath the castle are far more extensive than they could ever have imagined.
27:55I think we can say that this is some kind of super bunker,
27:59because of a lot of concrete here and a lot of reinforcements here.
28:03So, yeah, I think we can say that it's a super bunker.
28:08Some of the super bunker's tunnels run deep into the mountainside.
28:13What is Hitler building here?
28:17The tunnels at Kionge Castle are part of a much larger plan.
28:22Hitler orders work on six other underground sites nearby.
28:28But what is their purpose?
28:31Could they be part of a network to protect the entire Nazi elite?
28:36With Kionge Castle, Hitler's centerpiece?
28:41Or could the sites be underground factories,
28:45that furnish the Nazi war machine with vehicles?
28:49Could they even be part of a top-secret plan to develop nuclear weapons?
28:54With the sites unfinished, these mysteries remain unsolved.
29:05What we consider the start of the tunnel that Germans wanted to build.
29:10There is a dead end.
29:13The Soviets advance through Poland towards the giant.
29:17If Hitler can finish his network of super bunkers,
29:20he can try and hold out here.
29:23But his plans fail.
29:26The Nazi Germans had to abandon the tunnels
29:29because the Russians were coming really close to this place.
29:33They had to escape as quick as possible.
29:35So they abandoned a lot of tunnels like this.
29:38The Soviet advance pushes Hitler back from the giant.
29:45He falls back to Berlin and his Führerbunker.
29:49In this adapted air raid shelter never designed as a headquarters,
29:54Hitler is more vulnerable than ever before.
29:57How can he command his armies and rule his Reich from here?
30:15In the final months of World War II,
30:20Hitler abandons the Eastern Front.
30:24He retreats from his forest stronghold, the wolf's lair.
30:29Then from his stunning super bunker, the giant.
30:33The advancing Soviets beat the Nazis back to Berlin.
30:38And Hitler to his bunker.
30:42Hitler's chancellery bunker, it was the epicenter, the nerve center,
30:46the commander control center for Hitler's Nazi entire war machine.
30:54This parking lot, less than a mile from the Brandenburg Gate,
30:58was once home to the Führerbunker.
31:02More than 70 years ago, Germany's war effort and Hitler's survival
31:09depended on him running the war from here.
31:12This was where Hitler played out the final scenes of the Second World War.
31:18The last hundred days of his life, he moved in here,
31:21and only briefly, twice, did he ever come out again.
31:35Designed to be occupied only in an emergency,
31:38the Führerbunker is now Hitler's final lifeline.
31:42A whirring engine room generates electricity 24-7,
31:46powering three large filters to clean the air pumped in from above ground.
31:52And huge pumps to drive out the constant seepage of groundwater.
31:58A communications room provides two-way contact with the outside world.
32:04Facilities are basic, and life down here is damp and uncomfortable.
32:10How is it possible to wage a war from here?
32:18Military historian Nigel Dunkley wants to discover how Hitler commanded his armies from his Berlin bunker.
32:28Wants nothing more than an air raid shelter.
32:33He believes this Nazi-built communications control center on the edge of Berlin can offer clues.
32:44Here we are, deep underground.
32:46Here is a place called Sossen-Wunstdorf,
32:49and we are in the former command bunker of the German Wehrmacht, of the German armed forces.
33:02This is the heart of the commsend, the communication center.
33:06No sense in just having Hitler giving orders unless they can be communicated.
33:10And one of the main ways of communicating his orders is by this message system.
33:19In the Führer bunker, all communications run through a central communications room,
33:25with an SS sergeant on duty at all times.
33:29A telephone switchboard gives Hitler voice communication with the outside world,
33:35and calls can be routed to his private office.
33:40A telex machine gives the Führer secure two-way text communication with his generals in all corners of the Reich.
33:52And a large antenna above the bunker connects to an army radio set,
33:57allowing Hitler to monitor enemy radio broadcasts.
34:02This underground bunker complex where we are was made by the same company,
34:07that made Hitler's own personal bunker.
34:14With Hitler's Führer bunker no more,
34:17this bunker is one of the last places in the world that could offer a glimpse into the final days
34:23of his empire.
34:27Nigel searches for a space with roughly the same dimensions as Hitler's quarters.
34:34Wow, look at this.
34:36Can you smell it?
34:37You smell damp.
34:38You smell plaster.
34:40Look at the state of the walls.
34:44Amazing.
34:45Look at this.
34:47Nothing has been touched here for decades.
34:50Virtually unchanged since the 1940s,
34:53Nigel gets a glimpse into a long-forgotten past.
35:00Right, having discovered this little room, what I want to do is just measure it.
35:07Trusty little tape measure.
35:12Wow, look at this.
35:14Nigel's search is over.
35:15Amazing.
35:19It's 14 feet, so pretty well exactly the same dimensions as Hitler's own private room.
35:27I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it.
35:30This has got exactly the same atmosphere that one would expect in Hitler's own bunker rooms if they still existed.
35:39This is as close you're ever going to get.
35:41In a room exactly like this, Hitler faces the annihilation of his Reich.
36:16I find it remarkable.
36:18Hitler wages a world war from a few rooms in a tiny, oppressive former air raid shelter.
36:27And he's losing.
36:30This is just full of ghosts, isn't it?
36:33Just full of atmosphere.
36:36This is such a dark, creepy place.
36:38He became even more affected by the weird atmosphere that there is down here.
36:43He was losing touch with reality, not for the first time in his life.
36:49And that's quite clear.
36:50He was giving orders to units, to formations, to armies even, which no longer existed.
37:04He's on a different world down here.
37:10In April 1945, Russian troops enter Berlin.
37:14In his bunker, Hitler orders every German to fight to the death.
37:20But he swallows a cyanide capsule, and then shoots himself in the head.
37:27Hitler's bunker outlives him.
37:30But what happens to it after his death?
37:46In May of 1945, Hitler is found dead among the rubble of his Berlin bunker.
37:55And the Soviets discover the subterranean world that has been his stronghold for the last four months.
38:04Soviet leader Joseph Stalin orders its destruction.
38:10But that's not the end of the story.
38:13In 1986, nearly 40 years after Stalin gave the order, Robert Conrad is driving past the site, now in communist
38:24East Germany.
38:26I'm able to have a view over this fence, and I'm really thrilled what I see there, because there's a
38:34big, empty space prepared for a new housing project.
38:39They bring old buildings out of the earth, and I'm really interested in what will they bring out.
38:47In the backyard of the Reich Chancellery, workers unearthed something strange.
38:54Intrigued, Robert wants to get a closer look.
38:57He dresses up as a construction worker to sneak into the site.
39:02It's a mixture of feeling really scared, because it's so close to the border, and the risk is so high,
39:11they can bring me into prison.
39:14It's also thrilling to come inside, because I feel like an explorer.
39:19It looked very different to now.
39:23It's a big construction site, empty, and with piles of sand and soil.
39:32Behind these piles, I see the bunkers.
39:38Robert has discovered Hitler's bunker.
39:43Somehow, it has defied Stalin's orders for its destruction.
39:48Here in the photo, you can see full of water to the high of my shoulders, and you can see
39:56most of the walls are gone inside.
39:59Only the outer walls still remained.
40:02Robert returns several times to photograph the bunker.
40:06I wanted to preserve the traces of history, the architecture, the construction, before it's gone.
40:14These are some of the final photographs of Hitler's bunker.
40:19Shortly after these photos are taken, the East Germans begin to destroy it.
40:26They had to drill the concrete, putting in explosives, and to blow up a very small part of the concrete.
40:36After two years, all the East Germans managed to do is demolish the roof.
40:46Unable to completely destroy the bunker, they build a parking lot on top of it.
40:52It's incredible.
40:54Some meters beneath us, you can find the ground plate and the rest of the walls of Hitler's bunker till
41:01today.
41:04Despite all efforts, the Führerbunker lives on.
41:16From his front-line wolf's lair, to his giant super bunker underneath a mountain,
41:24Hitler is on a quest for engineering perfection.
41:29But these abandoned structures are now a monument to his downfall.
41:36Spending the final days of the war in an adapted air raid shelter never intended as a command center,
41:43Hitler's Berlin bunker becomes his tomb.
41:49A hidden reminder of Germany's violent past and a thrilling archaeological window into a world few have ever seen.
42:00Spending the final days of the war in the war in the war in the war in the war in
42:04the war.
42:28Spending the final days of the war in the war in the war.
42:29Spending the final days of the war in the war.
42:29Spending the fire to the
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