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Mother-child bunker in Kreuzberg

In the middle of the sidewalk near Moritzplatz there is an entrance to a mother-child bunker from WWII. This was built in 1942 in a blind subway tunnel. In the 1920s, this should lead from the Heinrich-Heine-Straße underground station through Dresdner Straße over Oranienplatz to the Luisenstadt Canal. When the shell of the tunnel up to Oranienplatz was finished, construction was stopped by the city of Berlin. Other routes have been prioritized.

The entry takes place as part of a guided tour of the “Berlin Underworlds”. Access was only possible with rubber boots. The facility was reserved for the working women in Berlin with children who were supposed to survive the nights of bombing so that they could work again the next day in the war-essential factories. In addition to the original labels, the abrupt end of the path was interesting. There was a wall here: the former zone border between East and West Berlin. In the first days after the Wall was built in 1961, people fled here before the GDR border guards discovered the escape route to be walled up - it is the last underground section of the Berlin Wall.

The tour was in 2012. Shortly afterwards, the facility was closed and has not been accessible since then.

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