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https://www.berliner-unterwelten.de/f... Tour F – History Storage Fichtebunker A tour into Berlin's dark past The Fichtebunker represents around 130 years of Berlin's city history. Until the Nazi era, the building, which was built as a gasometer in 1883/84, served as the city's street lighting. In 1940, as part of the "Bunker Construction Program for the Reich Capital," a six-story "mother-and-child bunker" with a three-meter-thick ceiling was built into the old gasometer. During the nights of bombing, it initially offered 6,500 mothers and children a safe place to sleep, and later up to 30,000 people crowded inside. In April 1945, the bunker was occupied by the Red Army. In the post-war period, it served as a reception camp for refugees and those bombed out, and there was a prison in the basement. In the 1950s, a retirement home and a homeless shelter were set up in the windowless bunker. It was not until 1963, after a murder, that the "Bunker of the Hopeless" was cleared and from then on served as a storage facility for food reserves for West Berliners. Today, the roof is covered with lofts. The interior of the largest Berlin bunker still preserved in its original state is used as a museum by the Berliner Unterwelten eV. The tour not only explains the structure and technology of the listed building. The time of the bombing war, the tragic fate of war refugees and the homeless are other topics that are conveyed - supplemented by numerous exhibits, contemporary witness reports and modern projection technology. In this way, the dark history of the building is brought to life on an exciting journey through time. The "History Storage Fichtebunker" is a location on the Route of Industrial Heritage Berlin.