The Reich Chancellery bunker was built by means of forced labour. Adolf Hitler governed from there when he was not at his headquarters at the Wolfsschanze or his residence on Obersalzberg. He committed suicide in the bunker on April 30, 1945.
The bunker was demolished after 1945; nothing remains of it today.
Address:
Gertrud-Kolmar-Straße 4
10711 Berlin
Directions:
U Mohrenstraße
Sources:
“Dance on the Obersalzberg”: Johan Meijer, CD “From Maas to Memel – Songs for Surivors”, 2003 (song), Private Archive van Langeveld (photo)
Song Text “Dancing on the Obersalzberg”Walking with Rinus across BerlinAlkett, Sachsenhausen and Großbeeren.Places of resistance and of pain.I listen and want to learn from you.How did you escape from all this violenceand how could you crack the armourthat has tortured you for years.Tell me what has kept you alive?Dancing on the Obersalzberg,dancing all aroundDancing on the very placeswhere once Hitler stood.Spying from his eagleneston the world underneathMillions were in his grip,I was one of them.Happy that I am still alivethat I succeeded to escape.Happy that I’m dancing hereand that I won his war.They walked with boots over your backyou had to stand in open air for hours on endIt was not easy, but you went back againto feel this bloody pain just once again.A man should not cry they saybut there someone is being kickedand another man is hanging on the gallowsAnyone crying in this hell would have been lost.Dancing on the Obersalzberg …
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