GERMANY: BERLIN: ADOLF HITLER'S BUNKER COMPLEX

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English/Nat On the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a construction crew in the city has uncovered what's believed to be part of Adolf Hitler's bunker complex. Bulldozers were digging up a road when the discovery was made. Berlin Tour Guide Paul Wagle says he's certain it's part of an underground complex where Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945. He's dismissed claims that the concrete uncovered is part of sewage passage. Hitler moved into the Führerbunker, located deep under the Chancellery buildings in the month of his death. In this underground complex containing nearly thirty rooms on two separate floors, it's thought he held daily briefings with his generals, amid reports of the unstoppable Soviet advance into Berlin. SOUNDBITE: (English) "Here behind these yellow construction fences on the 76th anniversary of the beef hall pledge and the 61st anniversary of Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass, when Nazis destroyed more than 250 synagogues throughout Germany) while the 10th anniversary proceeding of the wall falling just behind us, they're silently digging up Hitler's bunker right behind this wall. The sand filled remains of the bottom 17 rooms - the place where Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30th 1945 is being exposed right now. I've been told it sewage passage way but I believe it's the remains of Adolf Hitler's bunker." SUPER CAPTION: Paul Wagle, Berlin Tour Guide SOUNDBITE: (English) "I saw some pictures of this area in 1990 when they cleared area - the only thing remaining was the walls around the 17 rooms, barely exposed from the sand filled foundations here. And it's exactly on a line straight out from that building. I looked at these pictures. Herr (Mr.) Misch, who was here on May 2nd 1945, shortly before the Soviets discovered the bunker, one of the last S-S officers, one of the last three S-S officers showed me where he'd remembered the bunker to be and pictures of the area in 1990 - that's why I'm pretty sure that's Hitler's bunker." SUPER CAPTION: Paul Wagle, Berlin Tour Guide You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/ddd6489a86a84e6b09ed64e3dafb1db2 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork