There are even more documentaries here ➡️ https://kurz.zdf.de/U7KL/ A new documentary every Wednesday and Saturday? Then subscribe to ZDFinfo. Restricted areas, underground facilities, nuclear bunkers: Hidden in the forests in eastern Germany lie almost forgotten buildings from the former GDR - relics of the fear of nuclear catastrophe. Wünsdorf near Brandenburg: Once the headquarters of the Soviet armed forces in the GDR, today a ghost town. This also includes the "Zeppelin" bunker, a former Wehrmacht bunker. The Soviet army used parts of the building as a communications center between the GDR and Moscow. During the Cold War, the fear of nuclear war was omnipresent. The fact that it did not stop at the GDR leadership is shown by the so-called Mielke bunker: a gigantic nuclear bunker that was intended to serve as a command post for the Stasi chief in the event of war. The building extends over two floors with more than a hundred rooms and was part of a large bunker network. For the families of the GDR's political elite, however, only simple shelters were provided in Wandlitz. Were Soviet nuclear weapons stored on the territory of the former GDR? That is considered likely, only some of the locations are kept secret to this day. Our documentary goes in search of clues, accompanies bunker experts on their descent and into the underworlds and explains what role they would have played in an emergency. A FILM BY Andreas Köller Andreas Vennewald CAMERA Till Beckert EDITING Alexander Menkö SOUND Patrick Müller GRAPHICS Julia Goschke Studio Quakz SPEAKER Nilz Bessel ARCHIVES German Broadcasting Archive (DRA), Progress, Transit Film PRODUCTION Ulrike Römhild Lena Block Sina Eckardt (ZDF) PRODUCER Stefan Bomhof EDITORIAL Annette Harlfinger Kathrin Beck A PRODUCTION BY doclights GmbH COMMISSIONED BY ZDFinfo ZDF 2024 00:00 Intro 00:43 Wünsdorf: Soviet headquarters 10:32 Secret location: Nuclear bunker 19:49 Biesenthal: Mielke bunker 31:19 Wandlitz: Family bunker 36:02 Makers: Stasi bunker 45:25 Outro Check out here too: #ZDFinfo on Instagram: / zdfinfo ZDFinfo on TikTok: / zdfinfo ZDFinfo on WhatsApp: https://kurz.zdf.de/jsB/ #zdfinfo #ddr #bunker