See the reason for so much beer is that the water was bad then, so it was hard to find a place to get clean water without going far into the country. Well it wasn’t entirely safe to go that far into the country and leave the city, which they knew had protection. In that time, beer was also seen as a food group. We also learned that the average German consumes 109 liters of beer each year (that’s ½ a coke bottle if you need that to be put into perspective). WOW!!!
Okay so now the really cool part about these dungeons, during WWII, Nürnberg was the stronghold and headquarters for the Nazis. Hitler himself had his very own bunker in these dungeons! I mean there were actual Nazis walking the halls in this dungeon we went in just some 70 or so years ago. In addition, this bunker was built back up/expanded by mostly women and children since most of the men were off fighting in the war for the Nazis.
When American and British forces bombed Nürnberg there were over 60,000 people in these bunkers hiding for safety. OVER 60,000 … that’s where they stopped counting. Now there’s electricity in these dungeons, but back then all they had were candles to use down there.
In addition, we (as in British and US forces) destroyed 96% of that city in 58 seconds! You can even see it in the city wall … where the old bricks turn into nice new ones.
John took a lot of really great photos in there … here are a few.
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