[Rick Lee]

IIRC, the bunker was located underneath what was part of the death strip in the Berlin Wall, which, prior to that was and currently, is part of Potsdamer Platz. I remember reading about the East Germans trying more than once to blow the whole thing up and seal it off. Anyone here see the movie Downfall? It's a must-see.

And there are plenty of elderly East Germans still around who are bitter at the US for having traded what they occupied west of the Elbe to the Russkies for a slice of Berlin. Lots of folks who fled west thought they were gonna be in good hands when the Americans arrived, only to learn they were being abandoned to the Russkies.