A once-secret bunker designed to shield communist rulers of the former East Germany from a nuclear attack has opened to the public. The three-storey complex, finished in 1983, was intended to house leader Erich Honecker and 400 staff.
At the time it was one of the communist world's most advanced bunkers. Now the walls are covered in mould and the decontamination chambers long-defunct. The bunker, north of Berlin, will be open for three months. The Berlin city authorities say they will then seal it with concrete.
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