Hitler's Bunker.

[robhill]

I have two plans of Hitler's Bunker and they differ quite a bit. Does anyone have an accurate plan please? Was the staircase joining the upper and lower bunkers spiral? Speer didn't design it so who did? Who built it? Many thanks... Rob.

[May 10th 1940]

No it was not a spiral staircase.

Source Discovery Channel Hitlers Bunker

mayby someone has a better source

[May 10th 1940]

it was shaped like a rectangle. i believe construction begun in 1941.

The story on discovery is worth your time.

[May 10th 1940]

it was shaped like a rectangle. i believe construction begun in 1941.

The story on discovery is worth your time.

[Helly Angel]

No it was not a spiral staircase.

Source Discovery Channel Hitlers Bunker

mayby someone has a better source

That´s is correct!!!!

I saw the program! and the photo of the staircase. The photos was taken by the STASI in a study about the tunnels under german streets.

all the best,

[AGRAKAN]

Here you are

[AGRAKAN]

High floor (Servants & Goebbels family)

1. Dining room
2. Goebbel's family's dormitories.
3. Store, but it doesn't specify what materials
4. Kitchen and stores
5. Other bedrooms
6. Servants' dormitories

A- Corridor to the new Chancillery
B- Corridor to the old Chancillery

[AGRAKAN]

Low Floor (Hitler's Headquarters)

1. Hitler's dormitory
2. Conference room
3. Sitting room
4. Study
5. Eva Braun's bedroom
6. Bathroom
7. Kennels
8. Bathrooms for visitants
9. Meeting/conference point
10. Dormitory
11. Infirmary
12. Goebbels' office
13. Doctor's consultory.
14. Bormann's office
15. Communications centre
16. Room for air conditioning machines.

a. Guard's tower
b. Guard
c. Guards quarters
d. Stairs (44 step)

[AGRAKAN]

By the way, "Hochtief" (a building society) was in charge of building Hitler's bunkers

[Geoff Walden]

Here you are

Regarding that map showing where the Fueherbunker was/is ... I have to differ some with this interpretation. The exact location of the Fuehrerbunker is easy to pinpoint on the ground today, by overlaying or correlating 1945 aerial photos with modern aerial photos. I bought copies of both at a kiosk near Potsdamer Platz a few years ago. You can line up the streets and also existing buildings like the Air Ministry, then look for the bunker emergency exit and watch/ventilation towers, and just transfer the location to the modern photo or map.

The Fuehrerbunker site is closer to Wilhelmstrasse, and further north (behind the Old Chancellery). It is behind the modern Wilhelmstrasse 90-92 apartment building, beneath a grassy area and parking lot, at the end of the street called In der Ministergarten.

I believe this map is a closer match to the site (Fuehrerbunker site in red). I would suggest the bunker outline shown on the other map is closer to the so-called Fahrerbunker (SS Drivers Bunker), which was discovered about 1991.

Geoff Walden

[Eva]

As for the spiral staircase... I think I have read/been told/seen somewhere (I wish I could remember the source off the top of my head) that the staircase was just a staircase, but the landing was curved instead of square, thereby allowing people to mistake a staircase with a landing for a spiral staircase. When I find the source I'll post it.

E

[hein]

hallo


go and visit the hitler bunker in a 3D movie
find the link discovery channel and go back in time


http://dsc.discovery.com/anthology/unso ... itler.html

hein

[varjag]

Geoff Walden is right - the location of the bunker on Agrakans overview map is incorrect. I believe that one part of it in the east - was even UNDER the Old Reichskanzlei. The crucial staircase leading up to the emergency-exit in the Kanzlei Gardens was, according to the more reliable drawings a square affair that led up to ground level via two platforms - each of the approximate length of the width of the concrete block that constituted the emergency exit.

[hein]

indead there were two levels














http://www.din-bog.dk/Tyskland/Index_Ty ... unker.html

[varjag]

I have two plans of Hitler's Bunker and they differ quite a bit. Does anyone have an accurate plan please? Was the staircase joining the upper and lower bunkers spiral? Speer didn't design it so who did? Who built it? Many thanks... Rob.

Robhill - I preempted without reading your post properly, since most queries about 'the staircase' refer to the one between Hitlers 'deep bunker' and the ground level. The staircase between the 'Vorbunker' and Hitlers Führerbunker was indeed - not a spiral - but a half-moon job - as evidenced by Hein's quite accurate drawing.