Word: bunker
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...enterprise in a country whose housing situation is critical. Some took pleasure in forecasting what they would do to the statue as soon as the Russian occupation was over. "We will blow it up. We will do a better job with that than the British did with our Tiergarten-Bunker...
...Beds. In Hamburg that night, others were also finding it hard to get along without much money. Near the station some Germans, just arrived by the last train, were shambling along between the rubble piles searching for a sheltered place to sleep a few hours. There was only a bunker-a concrete-walled, prisonlike municipal air-raid shelter. The bedraggled transients dug out their identity cards, were suspiciously eyed by a policeman at the door, then were led to their cells...
That night several hundred people slept in the bunker, whole families sprawled out on chairs and benches, grasping their luggage tightly. The British officer's party was still in progress when the bunker closed its doors for the night...
...choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club, picks up the pieces where Gisevius drops them and reconstructs a Wagnerian drama of the suicide "love death" of Hitler and Eva Braun. His evidence, gathered from documents and survivors, is circumstantial but pretty convincing. From the Führer-bunker, deep under the Reich Chancellery garden, the war "was directed by somnambulist decisions," he says. Russian shells crashed down overhead; Berlin was almost surrounded; in G.I. slang, the doomed party leaders were getting "bunker happy." Hitler himself deteriorated rapidly...
...called his court around him, and in this macabre conclave all rehearsed their plans for suicide." Only SS General Fegelein, Eva Braun's brother-in-law, declined: "He had not secured his adoption into the family in order to burn on the family pyre." He escaped from the bunker but was captured and shot. Early in the morning of April 30, Hitler married Eva Braun. (She supplied, says the author, "that ideal of restfulness . . . for which his bourgeois soul so hankered.") That day in the Chancellery canteen, where the soldiers and orderlies took their meals, there was a dance...