Berliner Tor deep bunker

{{Short description|Deep bunker near Berliner Tor station in Hamburg, Germany}}

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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.{{Cite web |title=Berlinertor Bunker, Hamburg |url=https://www.subbrit.org.uk/sites/berlinertor-bunker-hamburg/ |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=Subterranea Britannica}}{{Cite web |title=Führungen durch den Tiefbunker am Berliner Tor |url=https://www.unter-hamburg.de/rundgaenge/berliner-tor/ |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=www.unter-hamburg.de|language=de}}

The deep bunker had a capacity of 1000 people, and provided refuge from the firestorm caused by Operation Gomorrah, a concerted raid of bombing with incendiary weapons during the allied bombing of Hamburg in 1943 which resulted in over 35,000 deaths.{{Cite web |last=Schmoock |first=Matthias |date=2023-07-29 |title=Zweiter Weltkrieg: Wie die Hamburger Gomorrha erlebten – eine Nacht im Bunker |url=https://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/hamburg-mitte/article239055889/Wie-die-Hamburger-Gomorrha-erlebten-eine-Nacht-im-Bunker.html |access-date=2024-12-01 |website=www.abendblatt.de |language=de}}{{Cite web |last=Schmoock |first=Matthias |date=2023-07-27 |title=Hamburg während Operation Gomorrha: So erlebten Zeitzeugen die Luftangriffe |url=https://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/hamburg-mitte/article404679763/alle-schrien-so-erlebten-zeitzeugen-hamburgs-untergang.html |access-date=2024-12-01 |website=www.abendblatt.de |language=de}}

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.