Berliner Tor deep bunker is a deep bunker near Berliner Tor station in Hamburg, Germany. The structure was originally constructed in 1940 by the government of Nazi Germany as a civilian refuge from bombing. It had a capacity of 1000 people.
In 1943, the bunker provided refuge from the firestorm caused by Operation Gomorrah, a concerted raid of bombing with incendiary weapons during the allied bombing of Hamburg which resulted in over 35,000 deaths.
In the Cold War period, it was reused as a nuclear bunker by the post-war West German government, and extensively renovated for that use, with the renovations finished in 1963.
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NDR video about bunkers in Hamburg, including this More images of the bunker at secrethamburg.de