City officials want to build flats on the city centre site but others say it should be preserved as part of Germany's history.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A close-up of the cloth taken from a sofa in Adolf Hitler's bunker, where the German dictator killed himself in 1945. - Blink ...

The bunker is part of a subterranean bunker complex constructed over a period of ten years, and which served as the headquarters of the Nazi regime until the last week of World War II in Europe.

Preservation experts say the move to develop the site reflects a tension in Germany between the need to preserve historically significant monuments and the need to build and modernize.