Hitler's Nazi bunkers discovered both real and virtual
Last updated at 15:03 19 June 2007
The Nazi's most famous underground base, the Berlin Fuehrer Bunker, has been turned into an online "virtual tour".
Researchers studied hundreds of photographs and plans to gather as much information as possible about the construction and layout of the Fuehrer Bunker.
They compared them with with first-hand accounts in memoirs and diaries of those who had used the bunker during the war.
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The "tour" starts above ground with images of the old Reich’s Chancellery and Winter Garden.
The bunker itself was built underneath the reception hall - two from the hall doors provided quick access to the bunker.
The animators have stripped away the floor to reveal a network of rooms, added strength provided by the existing basements.
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The bunker was abandoned at the end of the war but the researchers were also able to draw on work by modern researchers and academics.
The three-dimensional recreation depicts each of the construction phases and animators have created a virtual model of the bunker in its surroundings.
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Keystone Animation, which handled the project, is planning to release three DVDs this year documenting the history of the bunker.
The virtual recreation has been unveiled as a Nazi academy is rediscovered under a man-made hill on the western edge of Berlin.
The unfinished military school, designed by Nazi architect Albert Speer, was meant to become part of Germania, the huge capital of the 1,000-Year Reich.
Hitler laid the foundation stone in 1937 and it was almost 80 per cent complete when the escalation in fighting forced building to be halted.
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After British troops failed to turn the building into their post-war headquarters, the site was chosen as a dumping ground for wartime rubble from the shattered city.
The area was seeded with grass with nothing to show of the academy encased in the 116 metre-high Teufelsberg (Devil's Mountain).
The mountain was a popular spot for locals to ski and picnic.
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