Germany is taking significant steps to bolster its civil defense capabilities by identifying public and private buildings that can be repurposed as bunkers if needed. The country’s Interior Ministry ...

(CNN) — Conscription, rationing, and subway stations turned into bunkers. For the first time since the Cold War, Germany has updated its plans should conflict erupt in Europe, with ministers citing ...

Purpose-built cellars are being considered in Germany as a measure to protect the population in the event of war, it has been reported. The magazine Der Spiegel said that German government officials ...

Last month, an 1,100-pound unexploded bomb from WWII, believed to be of American origin, was uncovered near Cologne, Germany, where a construction crew had been digging. Some 3,000 people were ...

A bunker built by German troops in northern France during World War II has been restored and refitted as an underground guesthouse. The northern coast is still strewn with fortifications left by the ...

A former World War II bunker in the St. Pauli area of Hamburg, Germany, is being transformed, in a $63-million project with five additional floors of new, vegetation-covered cultural and sports spaces ...