Image:FuehrerBunkerBerlinLocation.jpg

[edit] Licensing

I, Dennis Nilsson, the copyright holder of this work, has published or hereby publishes it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. In short: you are free to distribute and modify the file as long as you attribute its author(s) or licensor(s). Official license Català | Česky | Deutsch | English | Ελληνικά | Español | Français | 한국어 | Italiano | עברית | Lietuvių | Magyar | Nederlands | Polski | Português | Русский | Türkçe | ‪中文(繁體)‬ | +/-

[edit] Description

This is a map showing the locations of the Fuehrerbunker and Vorbunker in Berlin, 1945. These locations are not necessarily perfectly exact, but they are very probable. There were two bunkers which were connected - the Fuehrerbunker and the Vorbunker, and here are the links to my maps of these bunkers:

1. Führerbunker.
2. Vorbunker.

Information about the details of the bunkers is rather scarce, which is not strange, since the bunkers were secret. This map is based on the excellent research of Tom Posch (see below), who visited and photographed the remains from inside in 1988. He concluded that the map of the bunker in Cornelius Ryan's The Last Battle was incorrect, and a new, hand-drawn map of the Vorbunker was produced by Tom Posch.

[edit] Notes on the location of the bunkers

The Fuehrerbunker, built in 1944, was located 8-17 meters beneath the Reichskanzlei garden, approx. 120 meters north of the new Reichskanzlei building, which had the address Vossstrasse 6. The Führerbunker was located somewhat lower than the Vorbunker and west (or rather west-west-south) of it. The two bunkers were connected via sets of stairs set at right angles (not spiral).

[edit] Construction data (approximates)

• Material: Concrete
• Protective Wall Width: 220 cm
• Protective Roof Height: 280 cm
• Wall Width (interior): 15-20 cm
• Door Heights: 180-200 cm
• Door Widths: 120 cm
• Room Heights: 2-3 m
• Room Sizes: Varying; 3-5 m

[edit] References

The map is based on the following sources:

1. Ramsey, Winston G. (editor) & Posch, Tom (researcher), The Berlin Führerbunker: The Thirteenth Hole, After the Battle, No.61, Special Edition, Battle of Britain International Ltd, 1988, London
2. Allied Intelligence Map of Key Buildings in Berlin (3rd edition, 1945)
3. Ryan, Cornelius, The Last Battle (1966)

Regards, Dennis Nilsson, Sweden.
If you wish to contact me, please leave a message on my talk page.

Les pages ci-dessous contiennent cette image :

• Helmut Weidling
• Führerbunker