Berlin museum re-creates Hitler’s bunker 70 years after his suicide

An exhibition opens today featuring a replica of the bunker where Hitler and Eva Braun killed themselves
An exhibition opens today featuring a replica of the bunker where Hitler and Eva Braun killed themselves
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Visitors to Berlin can for the first time view a re-creation of the bunker room where Adolf Hitler committed suicide, but the new exhibit has been denounced by a rival museum.

A replica of the office where the dictator and his wife, Eva Braun, killed themselves at the end of the Second World War will be on display behind a glass screen to deter neo-Nazis from taking selfies at the exhibition, which opens today.

The room, containing a replica of the sofa where the bodies of the Führer and his longstanding companion died on April 30, 1945, has been reconstructed at the privately run Berlin Story Bunker museum.

The city authorities were asked for funds but refused to pay anything towards it, while the nearby