What if music triumphed over the nightmares of the past?
It softens morals, they say.
Let's dare to believe that it softens the walls.
In the heart of Hamburg, in St Pauli, the new Reverb by Hard Rock hotel will open at the end of May in the Feldstrasse bunker, a cumbersome witness to the Nazi past.
A sinister concrete giant, it was one of a series of eight
Fläkturme,
anti-aircraft defense towers also installed in Berlin and Vienna.
Erected in one hundred days in 1942 by 3,000 forced laborers, it sheltered up to 25,000 people during the French and English air raids of the Second World War.
Once the conflict ended, its destruction proved too costly and dangerous.
See: walls 3.8 meters thick, an area of 75 meters by 75 meters on the ground and 38 meters high (the size of a building of more than 15 floors)!
The bunker remained standing.
Hamburgers have become accustomed to its presence while tourists regard it as a disturbing curiosity.
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