Hitler's Berlin bunker comes out of hiding

A large information panel was erected Thursday near Wilhelmstrasse above the underground labyrinth where Hitler married Eva Braun hours before committing suicide with her on April 30, 1945, ending the Nazis' 12-year reign of terror.

The so-called Fuehrer Bunker, with its impenetrable walls meant to withstand Allied bombing, was largely destroyed by Soviet troops in the postwar years and a parking lot and an apartment building now stand on the site.

Despite the avid interest of tourists who frequently asked shopkeepers about the location of the bunker, Berlin had refused to mark the site for fear it would become a shrine for neo-Nazis.