At the end of the 19th century, the newly created German bought a palace on Berlin's Wilhelmstrasse. In this palace the chancellery of the German Reich was located from that moment, the official residence of the chancellor or head of government. The building was occupied by Hitler from January 30, 1933, when he took office.
The nineteenth-century chancellery was too bourgeois according to Nazi thought, as well as being small for what the thousand-year Reich was going to mean to the world. To solve this problem, Albert Speer was commissioned to build a new chancellery that would fit the ideology of the new regime. In January 1939, the new chancellery, the center of power of the National Socialist regime and the official workplace of Adolf Hitler, was inaugurated.
The new building served to demonstrate the power of the regime from that moment on, but it also became the place of refuge for Hitler and his followers during the last months of the war. In 1943 the Führerbunker was finished, the place where Hitler spent the last six months of the war hiding and where he committed suicide on April 30, 1945.
How to get to Hitler's bunker
The site of the new chancellery and Hitler's bunker is located on Wilhelmstrasse corner An der Kolonade of Berlin. To get there we must get to the U2 Mohrenstrasse metro stop. To find out the best combination to get there, you can consult the following LINK.
Visit Hitler's bunker
This is the intention of many people who visit Berlin. However, the place where Hitler's bunker is located is one of the most disappointing for the visitor. The bunker still exists, but there is no visible element on the surface since it has been sealed since 1987. The place where the chancellery was located is today occupied by residential buildings built during the communist era.
For several years, a Berlin company has created an exhibition in an old civil protection bunker where the last months of Hitler's life are narrated and where a reproduction of the office that Hitler had in the bunker and where he committed suicide on 30 April 1945. You can find out how to visit this reproduction HERE.