Word: katarinaberget
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stories, the shelter accommodates 5,500 people under war conditions. It has a peacetime use as well, housing a garage, workshops, a shooting range, a 140-seat movie theater, and study rooms and a gymnasium for a girls' school on top of the hill. ¶ In Stockholm the Katarinaberget bomb shelter holds 20,000 people, and is the world's largest. The Swedes have also put this shelter to revenue-producing peacetime use. Currently leased to an oil company, Katarinaberget has room for 550 parked cars, a service station, a drive-in bank. A roof of granite more...
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