Hitler's Bunker To Be Rebuilt

I'm sure it probably looked like a great idea on paper.
"A German museum plans to recreate the Berlin bunker where Hitler spent his last days at Führer during the Second World War.


The bunker copy is currently in the planning stages, but the museum’s director Ingo Mersmann expects it to be open by the summer.
Hitler’s rooms, his secretary’s office, the radio room and his doctor’s room will all be faithfully replicated.
“We want this to be an educational experience so that families or groups of school kids can see how it really was: To experience the tiny rooms and the dampness of the bunker. We want to recreate it to show people," Mr Mersmann to the Local news site."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hitlers-fuhrerbunker-to-be-reconstructed-in-germany-9966037.html

 

Ummmm...I have nothing

 

Too early.....perhaps 500 years from now...

 

I was interested until I saw it is to be a replica......

 

Agreed. I can think of a thousand other more educational opportunities than a rebuild of Hitler's bunker.

 

I agree LRusso. Personally I really don't know what to think of this. I don't know how 'seriously' it would be taken. I feel that building this is unnecessary.

 

A replica of Hitler's bunker. Presumably above-ground. Not in Berlin.

While we're on the topic, I have an "faithful reconstruction" of Hermann Goering's Obersalzberg swimming pool in my back yard. And a replica of Fidel Castro's cigar on my shelf. I also have a small outbuilding painted white -- I call it the White House. I think I also have a wooden square painted red somewhere -- Red Square, if you will. Shall I continue.....?

 

Alan,Do you offer tours? :corna:

 

Hermann Goering's swimming pool??? I just want a replica of his train set...

 

As someone who used to have quite an obsession with train sets and still kind of does, I completely concur.

 

Is this a serious idea??? I mean - if they really want to do anything, just excavate and open the REAL Bunker! At least it has major historical significance.

And don't worry about it being a shrine - just put a CCTV camera over every door and entrance and keep the film for a couple of years - and TELL visitors their faces are being recorded for legal reasons...and THEN see how many neo-nazis go for the tour!

 

No need to worry, Lou. Herr Mersmann has covered that possibility:

As long as he has assured it, that's good enough for me.

 

Just the fact that the director of the museum had to address the issue, that should be the end of it. Nothing good will come of this.

 

He obviously didn't learn a very important lesson from the movie Field of Dreams: "If you build it, they will come."

 

I see what you did there

 

I'm not just a pretty avatar.

 

Maybe it's my age or maybe it is that I take a holistic view of these things but two things come directly to mind on this one.

First off how much hysteria is attached the name of man that not alone was participant in horrendous crimes against thousands.

Second, One wonders how many other sites and buildings currently exist that were witness to acts that would be consider in this day and age as barbaric.

The Colosseum for one, people complicit in the mass killing of people simply for there faith, Only in existence today due to the intervention of various Popes through the years but celebrated for it,s architecture and history.

I have no idea why this museum has put together plans to rebuild part of this structure but considering the numbers of similar buildings that still exist around Europe none of which have ever become 'Shrines' to the past I wonder if this one is really worth anything other than passing comment.

 

They build it simply because they think it will increase door tickets....hmmm...why do they think it will? Who do they think will be most inclined to want to see this...'we certainly don't want' is not saying we will ban or exclude does it...?

 

"..But the (Spy-)museum’s director (in OBERHAUSEN , next to the Centro shopping Mall !) assured critics that the site would not become a place of “pilgrimage” for neo-Nazis.
“We certainly don't want to recreate a place for the misguided people who still see him as a hero to come as a pilgrimage,” he said.."

So, likely not a bunker(replica) as such, but something on the third floor of the museum building.
And, definitely not wanting the neo nazi crowds (few promille of population) but wanting the hard cash of 30 % of the shopping population of the centro mall in Oberhausen.
yeaaaahhhhh right.
He should have proposed it when the movie "downfall" came out...but lacked the balls and waited for years after the massive appraisal after it came out on dvd and all the parodies on youtube..
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