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Shelters built into the u—bahn network. oh, wow! welcome to our bunker. how long would they have stayed down here? as the war progressed, and especially as the americans joined the war, the americans bombed in the day, the british bombed at night. and towards the battle of berlin, when there was also street fighting, people were down here days on end. it's quite interesting because you can hear rumbling going past. they get that big rumbling, passing noise all the time. would they have been aware that this bunker was here? you mean the passengers? the passengers, yeah. yeah, for sure, becaus...

Athena's taking me to one of the world war ii bomb shelters built into the u—bahn network. oh, wow. welcome to our bunker. how long would they have stayed down here? as the war progressed, and especially as the americans joined the war, the americans bombed in the day, the british bombed at night. and towards the battle of berlin, when there was also street fighting, people were down here days on end. it's quite interesting, because you can hear rumbling going past. mm—hm. they get that big rumbling, passing noise all the time. would they have been aware that this bunker was here? you mean...

The Eighth Air Force lost 60 of its 370 bombers during the "high-risk" operation in 1943.

Oh, wow! welcome to pankstrasse. welcome to our bunker. how long would they have stayed down here? as the war progressed, and especially as the americans joined the war, the americans bombed in the day, the british bombed by night, and towards the battle of berlin, there was also street fighting, people were down here days on end. it's quite interesting because you can hear rumbling going past. you get that big rumbling, passing noise all the time. would they have been aware that this bunker was here? you mean the... the passengers, yes. yeah, for sure, because this was used primarily by peopl...

Who were in the transit system and during the bombing raid had to come somewhere. the people in here were lucky. as we go a few stops up the u8 line, athena takes me forward in time to a later shelter, a symptom of berlin's position on the fault line of the historic tensions between east and west. welcome. so this is the bunker, or there is a bunker nearby? there's actually... we're in the bunker already, because this entire station is the bunker. it was originally opened in 1977 to be a multi—purpose facility. so it's both a train station, as you just saw, but also, in a 48—hour preparati...