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- BERLIN (Reuters) - Berlin
construction workers have accidentally unearthed remnants of the bunker
in which Adolf Hitler committed suicide in the closing days of World War
Two, city authorities said on Friday.
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- The site of the bunker, sealed off by Red Army soldiers
immediately after the capitulation of Berlin, was always known. But the
re-appearance of the most symbolically charged Nazi relic of them all raises
the question of what to do with it.
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- ``We must discuss this calmly, with political and other
city partners, before any proposals can be made,'' Karin Wagner, head of
the Berlin State Archeological Office, told Reuters.
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- The bunker, just to the south of the Brandenburg Gate
and in the heart of Berlin's new government quarter, is where Hitler and
his bride Eva Braun took their lives in 1945 as Russian troops surrounded
the capital of defeated Germany.
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- After the war it lay in the former Communist eastern
part of Berlin. Since Germany's unification in 1990, authorities have resisted
proposals to formally mark the site for fear it could become a shrine to
German neo-Nazis. __________
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- No 'Mein Kampf' But Adolf Cartoon Fine
10-15-99
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- FRANKFURT (Reuters) - ``Mein Kampf'' may have been voted
one of the 100 books that shaped the century -- but it was no show on Friday
for Adolf Hitler's seminal work at the world's biggest book fair.
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- There was no such problem, however, for Adolf the best-selling
cartoon character who donned his German helmet time machine to travel ``Back
to the Future'' from Paraguay to Sarajevo.
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- ``Mein Kampf,'' which Hitler wrote in prison several
years before he led the Nazi party to power in 1933, is banned in Germany
as hate literature.
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- The book trade quarterly Logos had chosen ``Mein Kampf''
as one of the century's most influential books even though ``it displays
utter disdain for freedom and civil morality, virulent anti-Semitism.''
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- Logos editor Gordon Graham decided to display all 100
influential books in Frankfurt.
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- ``Then a German friend told me you cannot exhibit 'Mein
Kampf.' We took legal advice and were told it can only be exhibited under
locked glass. So we have it hidden now. It is significant this should be
happening after 50 years,'' Graham said.
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