Germany's super-secret bunker (declassified from the Cold War era)

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17 km tunnel systems, twelve years of construction, five billion marks costs: A gigantic super bunker should Germany's political elite in the Cold War against a nuclear attack. Jetzt veröffentlichte Dokumente belegen: Die Anlage wäre im Krisenfall kollabiert. Von Christopher J. Peter Now published documents show: The investment would be in a crisis collapsed. By Christopher J. Peter

Original article from Der Spiegel in German (Google translation in English)

Video from Spiegel TV about the tunnel (in German)

reminds me of a article or something where they allied soldiers stumbled upon an abandoned nazi base where they face mutated soldiers when they tried to create super humans.

Originally posted by Iron-Ghost
reminds me of a article or something where they allied soldiers stumbled upon an abandoned nazi base where they face mutated soldiers when they tried to create super humans.

and that just reminds me of comic books, especially Captain America =P

The US had basically the same thing in the basement of the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia.

Probably several other still in existence, but classified locations.

Well... an interesting insight but as the above poster stated, nothing mind blowing here.

Every NATO Member had some kind of "Doomsday" Bunker ready to be used by government officials at a moment's notice of Nuclear War.

But the German complex is staggering in that how elaborate and well-designed it was. It must have been absolutely state of the art back then.

"It must have been absolutely state of the art back then."

Unfortunately not. When you read the original articles (e.g. in the "Spiegel" magazine) you will soon find out that the bunker was too close to the earth´s surface. It would have only withstand a 20 kiloton bomb (there were 5 megatons bombs available already in those days). Costs summed up to 2.5 billion EUR (approx. a little more than 4 billion USD) in the 1960s. And even though architects and specialists in 1961 critizised the bunker as unsuited for a real nuclear-strike (s.a.), government officials sticked to the project which wasn´t finished before 1966. Well, at least we now know where our taxes went...