Film Bunker

The film bunker was built in late 1937, early 1938 for Hansa Luftbild, a subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa. Since aerial photographs were still taken on celluloid film at that time and were very flammable and highly explosive, the material was not allowed to be stored in the building but in the two-story underground facility known as the “film bunker.” It is mainly located under the Columbiadamm street. Traces of a several-day fire in 1945 that reached over 1200 degrees are still visible.

PHOTOS: JÜRGEN SCHRÖDER

View into a burnt out corridor of the film bunker with a door at the end and an emergency exit sign above it

View into a dark corridor of the film bunker

Scribbles on a wall in the burnt out film bunker, on the right a lamp shines on the wall, an open door can be seen

Burnt out room in the film bunker, view to the door which is open and leads to a corridor with a glowing lamp

In the burnt out film bunker several doors are open in a corridor, a lamp is lit on the right wall

Burnt out film bunker staircase with lamp

Cooling unit in the film bunker machine room

Severe damage at the film bunker ceiling

Maintenance aisle ventilation View into a dark shaft

The machine room with the carbon filters on the left and the cooling unit on the right.

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Extensive air-raid shelters are located under almost all of the airport's administrative buildings, including Hangar 2. On many of the walls in the shelters there are well-preserved drawings worth seeing, which take up various motifs of Wilhelm Busch and were intended to cheer up the inmates.
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Hall of honor

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THF Underground

Wilhelm Busch it the shelter

Hall of honor