'Absolute madness': Row over plan to demolish Nazi bunker under Berlin

Dietmar Arnold, chairman of the Berlin Underworlds Association, told the BBC it would be "absolute madness" to demolish the bunker."It is a site of the perpetrators," he said. "It was the power centre of Nazi-Germany" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="8465" data-entity-type="organization">Nazi Germany, Hitler's New Reich Chancellery, and these are the last remains."He wants to work with the Holocaust Museum to turn the site into a museum and memorial site, with an exhibit about the end of the war."So much history has been destroyed here in Germany, both Communist history and Nazi history. We can't keep doing that."Arnold last went into the bunker in 2007, when he said it was in very good condition.He said this was not the more famous Führerbunker, where Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide and which lies about 120m to the north.Instead this was used by people who worked in the Reich Chancellery. At the end of the war a hospital was set up inside the structure.According to Arnold, 1,200 sq m (12,900 sq ft) of the bunker complex remain intact; the walls and ceiling are each 1.7m (5.6ft) thick.